Maria Engelport Monastery

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Chapel with the miraculous image "Our Lady of Engelport" before the change of religious order

The Maria Engelport monastery (also: porta angelica ) is located on the edge of the Hunsrück in the Flaumbachtal near Treis-Karden .

Origin and development up to the beginning of the 19th century

The monastery was founded around 1220 by the knight Emelrich von Monreal and settled by Cistercian women from the Kumbd monastery . The monastery was soon abandoned due to insufficient economic support from the founding family. A second foundation took place in 1262 by Philipp von Wildenburg and his wife Irmgard von Braunshorn . The couple settled the new establishment with three of their daughters and other Dominican women from an Ardennes monastery. On August 28, 1272, they transferred to the Premonstratensian Order and on October 2, 1275, they were placed under the supervision of the abbot of Sayn Abbey . From there, with one short exception (from around 1565-1616 the prior came from Steinfeld and from 1617 to 1672 from Rommersdorf ) there was always a prior and at times a chaplain in Engelport.

"The founding of Engelports"

During the Thirty Years War , Swedish troops set Engelport Monastery on fire and badly damaged it. From 1641, Master Elisabeth von Metzenhausen had the residential and farm buildings rebuilt before the monastery was rebuilt in the 1660s. The church and cloister had not been destroyed.

Up to the occupation by French revolutionary troops on October 4, 1794 or the abolition on July 25, 1802, there were almost always up to 25 women choirs in the Maria Engelport monastery. It was not until 1818 that buyers were found for the secularized monastery. The church and convent building were largely demolished and parts of it were still inhabited by the owners and tenants who used it as an agricultural property until it was sold to the OMIs in 1903.

An outstanding personality in the history of the monastery is Beatrix , who is venerated as blessed . Possibly she was the first prioress of Engelport. For a long time it was assumed that she was a daughter of Philip II of Wildenburg . However, recent studies give rise to the assumption that she came from the sex of Frei von Treis .

From 1450 to 1532 Margaretha Kratz von Scharfenstein (1430–1532) worked for 82 years as the “master” (prioress) of the monastery. She was particularly concerned about the welfare of the poor. When supplies ran out in 1530, she did not want to take anything from the poor, and when the elderly master inspected the stores, they are said to have been wonderfully filled. Margaretha Kratz von Scharfenstein is the great-great-aunt of Worms Bishop Philip II. Kratz von Scharfenstein

  • The monastery in the Flaumbachtal

  • Residential and church buildings

  • Engelport in winter 2010/11

  • View from the altar to the organ

  • Nave and choir of the monastery church 2013

Engelport after 1900

Miraculous image
St. Anna herself third in Maria Engelport
100 year celebration of the “Engelporter Madonna” with Bishop Stephan Ackermann in June 2013
Mass celebration in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite (2019)

reconstruction

After the monastery had been in ruins since the end of the 18th century , at the instigation of the Pomeranian pastor Peter Haubrich in 1903 it came into the possession of the German province of the order community of the Huenfeld Oblates , who built a new building in 1904/05. After the church in Kail was built, the then 60-year-old Peter Haubrich made the re-establishment of Engelport his new life's work.

The monastery church in neo-Gothic style is oriented to the northwest and not east, as was common in the past. The main building adjoins it to the southeast, creating a long front facing the street. In the middle of this front is the church tower with the main entrance.

Maria Engelport is a place of pilgrimage where Our Lady and her mother, Saint Anne , are venerated. There is also a relic of the holy bishop and founder of the order Eugene of Mazenod .

Miraculous image

The miraculous image “ Our Lady of Engelport ” is an 88 cm high statue of the Virgin Mary with the Child, a figure carved from wood and colored, partly gilded, from the early 15th century, which is considered a work in Cologne or Mainz. The exact origin and whereabouts during the centuries cannot be proven. It used to be assumed that the statue in a side chapel was a gift from a Cologne resident to the monastery and that the last head of the monastery took it with her to Treis after the house was closed. However, today it has been proven that this is not the case.

Cathedral vicar Josef Hulley (Trier) left it to Pastor Haubrich, who gave the figure to the monastery in 1913 after restoration. A remarkable detail of the representation is the consecrated alarm clock in the left hand of Our Lady.

Anna herself the third

On a side altar there is an Anna herself , a representation of St. Anne with Mary and the baby Jesus. The portrait from the early 16th century shows Maria as an adult, but the size of a child. This 42 cm high sculpture made of pear wood came from the Hulley collection to Engelport.

Tasks and services of the monastery

The monastery became a training center for brother missionaries in the German colony of German South West Africa ( Namibia ). After the First World War it served, among other things, the novitiate for the German province of the religious community until the 1960s . Well-known oblates such as Fathers Friedrich Lorenz and Engelbert Rehling , who were persecuted by the National Socialists, or Bishop Rudolf Maria Koppmann , the long-time apostolic vicar of Windhoek, were introduced into religious life here.

The idyllic and secluded location of the monastery attracts many visitors to hike in the shady Flaumbach valley , especially in summer . For many years the religious order offered rooms for pilgrimage groups, contemplation, conferences and retreats, especially after the extensive renovation in 1998. On Sundays and public holidays there was the possibility of celebrating one of the church services , of which the residents of the surrounding area in Hunsrück , Eifel and Moselle valley made active use.

The last big celebration with the oblates was the 100th anniversary of the “Engelporter Madonna” with Bishop Stephan Ackermann on June 23, 2013. Along with other concelebrants, Abbot Benedikt Müntnich of Maria Laach and the superior of the community in Engelport, Father, celebrated with the bishop Wolfgang Boemer, the service.

New beginning 2014

Adoration Sisters in Maria Engelport

On December 8, 2013, the Oblates left Engelport Abbey. The reasons for this were the age of the fathers and friars, but primarily the high maintenance costs of the buildings. The Adoration Sisters of the Royal Heart of Jesus Christ have lived in the monastery since January 2nd, 2014 . They form the female branch of the Christ the King and High Priest Institute . The Sisters and Canons of the Institute celebrate Holy Mass and the Divine Office in the extraordinary form of the Roman rite ( liturgy from 1962 ). In contrast to the generally accepted form, the priest celebrates " versus apsidem ", that is, facing the apse and not the community. In addition, communion in the mouth is given priority at a communion bench .

At first there were 14 nuns who moved into the monastery and, in the words of Superior Caroline-Marie, found “a new home”. The order mainly includes young women who come mainly from France, but also from the USA, Portugal and Germany. The average age in 2014 was 25 years. From 8:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., the sisters pray in front of the Holy of Holies , taking turns in front of the altar every half hour.

See also

Churches and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs: Maria Engelport Monastery . Rheinische Kunststättenhefte, volume 3/1976.
  • Norbert J. Pies: On the history of Maria Engelport Monastery . 13 volumes Cologne, Frechen and Erftstadt-Lechenich 1989–2000.
  • Norbert J. Pies: From Flaumbach into the wide world. 100 years of Maria Engelport Oblate Monastery and its history . Erftstadt-Lechenich 2003 ISBN 3-927049-34-4
  • Norbert J. Pies: Engelporter copies, manuals and narrations. On the history of Maria Engelport Monastery - New Series (anniversary series) Volume I. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2017 ISBN 9783927049611
  • Norbert J. Pies: Beatrix von Engelport. Facts, legends and fallacies. On the history of Maria Engelport Monastery - New Series (anniversary series) Volume II. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2018 ISBN 9783927049376
  • Norbert J. Pies: Alt-Engelporter views. Impressions and reconstructions. On the history of Maria Engelport Monastery - New Series (Anniversary Series) Volume III. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2018 ISBN 9783927049536
  • Norbert J. Pies: Alt-Engelporter reading book. 800 years of monastery history in 80 chapters. On the history of Maria Engelport Monastery - New Series (anniversary series) Volume IV. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2020 ISBN 9783927049635
  • Norbert J. Pies: 800 years of Maria Engelport Monastery. 71 selected chapters from its history. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2020 ISBN 9783927049642

Web links

Commons : Kloster Maria Engelport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: On the history of Maria Engelport monastery. Volume II, 1 The male clergy of the former women's monastery. Erftstadt-Lechenich 1997.
  2. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: Alt-Engelporter views. Impressions and reconstructions. Erftstadt 2018, ISBN 9-783927049536.
  3. ^ Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the district of Cochem. Unchanged reprint of the 1959 edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-422-00561-7 , p. 340.
  4. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: The Frei v. Treis and her relatives. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2011, ISBN 978-3-927049-51-2 .
  5. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: Master Margaretha Cratz von Scharffenstein. Notes on their origins and their work in Engelport . Yearbook 1988 for the district of Cochem-Zell, Monschau 1987, pp. 138-141.
  6. ↑ Website on the Blessed Margaretha Kratz von Scharfenstein
    on Margaretha Kratz von Scharfenstein, from the Rheinischer Antiquarius, page 741
  7. ↑ Norbert J. Pies: From Flaumbach into the wide world. 100 years of Maria Engelport Oblate Monastery and its history. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2003 ISBN 3-927049-34-4 .
  8. ↑ Entry on Peter Haubrich in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database , accessed on March 20, 2017 .
  9. ^ Norbert J. Pies: Two old Engelporter Madonnas: The result of an exciting search for traces. In: Hunsrücker Heimatblätter 144th year 50, December 2010, pp. 233–237.
    Norbert J. Pies: Maria in Engelport. 100 years of Engelport's miraculous image 1913-2013. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2013, ISBN 978-3-927049-54-3
    Norbert J. Pies: The Engelporter Marienverehrung: Backgrounds, insights & views. Erftstadt-Lechenich 2013, ISBN 978-3-927049-55-0
  10. ↑ a b Ernst Wackenroder: The art monuments of the district of Cochem , part 1 (= The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate 3). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1959, DNB 455330042 , pp. 342–343. Unchanged reprint: 1984, ISBN 3-422-00561-7 .
  11. ^ Press service of the Diocese of Trier on June 24, 2013. Accessed on April 22, 2019.
  12. ↑ Oblates give up Engelport Monastery at the end of the year . Rhein-Zeitung , Koblenz, March 25, 2013. Accessed July 3, 2016.
    Giuseppe Nardi: Adoration Sisters take over Maria Engelport Monastery - Traditional rite, worship and youth work . catholic.info, May 7, 2013. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  13. ^ Liturgy in Engelport . Retrieved July 19, 2019.
  14. ^ Rhein-Zeitung, Cochem-Zell district, April 18, 2014. Accessed April 22, 2019.

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 30.9 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 42.6 ″  E