Maria Magdalenen Monastery (Einbeck)
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The Maria Magdalenen Monastery , in Latin monasterium beatae Mariae Magdalenae de poenitentia secundum regularum S. Augustini , was a nunnery of the Magdalenerinnenorder in Einbeck .
history
It was founded at the beginning of the 14th century on a piece of land given by the monastery of St. Alexandri by donors outside Einbeck that have not been handed down. The monastery was originally located near the Bensertor; the exact location is no longer known today. The nuns wore white woolen clothing and were therefore also called "white women" .
After a few years, the nuns bought a piece of land in the new town of Einbeck in order to be able to hold services in the church there. Bishop Peter von Mainz approved the use of the church in 1318, and Einbeck's city council also agreed after initial resistance. In 1322 the construction of the monastery was completed. In the same year, the von Benhusen family, from the later desert of Bensen on the southern edge of the Einbecker Landwehr , donated half of their mill on the Ilme to the monastery .
For worship, the nuns entered the church via a high entrance , as their choir was above that of the gentlemen. In 1387, thanks to a donation from the citizen Johann Westphal, three chaplains were hired. The high mass took place daily. After the church assembly in Basel decided in 1435, the priors of the monasteries Windesheim and Wittenburg were supposed to reform the monastery in Einbeck. Therefore, visitations by the Wittenburg monastery have taken place since then. The monastery acquired the adjacent Amelungsborn court for 22 marks. This farm, also called Mönchehof, was developed at the Hullerser road in 1306, had a chapel because it was inhabited by two monks, and was with 15 morning gardens, 39 acres of meadows and 243 acres of arable in Einbeck and 5 acres arable at Salzderhelden wealthy and also had tithe rights in Drüber , Hollenstedt , Hullersen , Kuventhal , Odagsen , Stöckheim and Volksen .
Until the beginning of the 16th century, the monastery was headed by a prioress, then a dominatrix. Economic affairs were initially handled by a provost, later by a procurator. The monastery near Einbeck had gardens, ponds and five courtyards and managed the outwork on Hegerstrasse. It owned a farm each at Immensen and Hollenstedt . At the town council of Lüneburg it had a capital of 208 gold guilders . It had three seals, the essential feature of which was Mary Magdalene .
The convent expired soon after the introduction of the Reformation in the city of Einbeck. Its buildings were replaced by a school in the early 17th century, which burned down in 1826. The used parish church of St. Marien in the Neustadt was demolished in 1963. Its underground remains under the Neustädter Kirchplatz are protected as a ground monument.
literature
- Klinkhardt: The former monasteries in Einbeck and their history , in: New Fatherland Archive 1837, pp. 202–207
- Einbecker Geschichtsverein eV (Ed.): History of the City of Einbeck , Volume I, p. 117f
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '59.4 " N , 9 ° 51' 52.9" E