Lippstadt women's monastery

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The Lippstadt women's foundation is a foundation under public law under North Rhine-Westphalian state law under the supervision of the regional president in Arnsberg. It is located in Lippstadt and looks after the well-known church ruins of the Kleiner Marienkirche , which served as the church of the predecessor institutions, the Catholic women's community living under the Augustine Rule and the Protestant women's monastery that took its place during the Reformation.

It must not be confused with the Protestant women's monastery in Cappel (district of Lippstadt), which no longer existed in 1971 and was united with the St. Marien monastery in Lemgo .

Catholic pen

It is believed that nobleman Bernhard II von Lippe founded St. Maria around 1185. The first documentary evidence, however, comes from 1207. Until the middle of the 16th century, the monastic community of women lived according to the Augustine rule. Claudia Kimminus-Schneider speaks of a canonical pen , while Alfred Wendehorst and Stefan Benz list it as an Augustinian choir pen . It is not possible to make an unequivocal decision, at least the common designation of women as Augustinians is imprecise. Wendehorst and Benz mention real estate and the separation of choir women and lay sisters as the main characteristics of choir wives, but obviously only have in mind the demarcation from the small sister houses that often emerged from beguinages according to the Augustine rule. A follow-up to the Windesheim reform that was envisaged during a visitation in 1478 had no "lasting success", which the community places more towards the free worldly foundations.

Evangelical women's pen

From the middle of the 16th century the ladies turned to the Reformation. The Catholic provost of the monastery, however, kept spiritual supervision until 1841. From 1690 only noble virgins were admitted. In 1773 the chapter of the free world noble monastery was granted by the Prussian king the right to carry an order cross. In 1812 the monastery was abolished by the French Grand Duchy of Berg , but restored in 1826. The benefices gave Prussia and the Principality of Lippe in equal parts. The collegiate church, which was falling apart more and more, was closed in 1831.

present

The women's monastery is no longer a religious institution, it serves non-denominationally to care for needy (older) women who receive an apartment and a monthly payment (called prebende). The current statute of the foundation dates back to 1975. An honorary monastery curator manages the administration for the superior and the canonesses. In 1991 there were eight colleges (apartments) available. These are awarded by the district president in Arnsberg (legal successor to Prussia) and the Landesverband Lippe (legal successor to the Principality of Lippe). While in 1968 there were ten resident canons and four externals with a smaller prebend, in 1992 there were only two canons apart from the superior. The current workforce (2019) is eight canons.

literature

  • Maximilian Gritzner: Handbook of the existing women donors in the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Denmark, Sweden and the Russian Baltic Sea provinces […] Frankfurt am Main 1893, pp. 132-134 ( online ).
  • Leopold Ilse: The old Prussian sovereign fräuleinstifter. Their origin, development and current constitution. 2. The Fräuleinstift zu Lippstadt . Berlin 1902 ( online ).
  • Friedrich Ostendorf: The church and the monastery of the Augustinian nuns in Lippstadt . In: Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 55 (1905), Heft 7–9, Sp. 381–412 (I) ( online ); Issue 10-12, Col. 609-626 (II) ( online ).
  • Ludwig Schmitz-Kallenberg: Monasticon Westfaliae . Münster 1909, p. 42 ( online ).
  • The architectural and art monuments of the Lippstadt district . Münster 1912, pp. 115-117 ( online ).
  • Hartmut Platte: The former St. Marien Augustinian convent and today's Lippstadt convent . In: Heimatblätter [Lippstadt] 71 (1991), pp. 121–125.
  • Claudia Kimminus-Schneider: Lippstadt - women's pen . In: Westfälisches Klosterbuch vol. 1, Münster 1992, pp. 531-537.
  • Claudia Kimminus-Schneider: The Lippstädter Marienstift. Analysis of the architectural history of a Westphalian canonical monastery from the late 12th century . Bonn 1995 (not viewed).

Web links

Commons : Damenstift Lippstadt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälisches Klosterbuch, p. 532.
  2. ↑ Westfälisches Klosterbuch, p. 532.
  3. ^ Alfred Wendehorst , Stefan Benz: Directory of the monasteries of the Augustinian canons and choir women . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 56 (1996), here p. 60f. ( online ).
  4. ↑ p. 2.
  5. ^ So Westphalian monastery book, p. 533.
  6. ↑ Online on Commons .
  7. ↑ plate p. 121.
  8. ↑ Westfälisches Klosterbuch, p. 532.
  9. ↑ Information from the curator in November 2019: Commons .

Coordinates: 51 ° 40 ′ 31 ″  N , 8 ° 20 ′ 24 ″  E