Pansath Monastery

View of the deserted monastery

Pansath Monastery is a former monastery (now a farm) in the municipality of Holtgast , Samtgemeinde Esens , in Lower Saxony. The name of the monastery is made up of the Old Frisian / Middle Low German words “Panne” (pan) and “Sate” (branch). Presumably this is supposed to express the location in a lowland.

history

Much of Pansath's history is unknown. The archive and the monastery library have been destroyed with the exception of small remains. In 1420 Pansath is named as a Benedictine monastery under Abbot Heinrich, who was also subordinate to Marienkamp Monastery . Possibly both formed a double monastery from the beginning, the nuns of which lived in Pansath while the monks were housed in Marienkamp. No later than 1421 assumed Abbot Heinrich Pansath and Klostermarienberg Kamp the Augustinian canons made that Marie Kamp to their headquarters and from then on in Pansath only an agricultural Vorwerk operated. The area owned was around 265 hectares in the vicinity of the branch. Around 1425 a prior wanted to make Pansath an independent monastery again. But this plan was not carried out.

In the course of the conflict with the Counts of East Friesland , the Harlingerland chief, Junker Balthasar von Esens, Marienkamp burned down in 1530 and appropriated his property. The marienkamp monks then moved to Pansath. There must have been enough building fabric there to accommodate the clergy, which is why Pansath was probably more than a normal Vorwerk. In 1535 the Augustinians were expelled from Pansath. The land probably came into the possession of the East Frisian count immediately. They immediately sold the land to private individuals, who built five farms on it. When the buildings were demolished is as unknown as the monastery once looked. Excavations have not taken place to date.

Foundations of 60 by 60 paces should still be in the ground and about 300 meters northwest of the monastery site, the former Pansath fish pond was preserved as a burial in the grassland.

Economic activity

The monastery owned a total of around 265 hectares. For the most part, these lands consisted of geest soils of inferior quality or were so deep that they could not be used during the whole winter and were used for hay extraction in summer. After the Reformation , the property probably fell to the Counts of East Friesland .

literature

• Axel Heinze: Pansath . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 3, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89534-959-1 , p. 1250 ff.
• Walter Deeters : Benedictine double monasteries in East Frisia. In: Res Frisicae. Ostfriesische Landschaft, Aurich 1975, pp. 73–85.

Web links

• Monasteries in the municipality of Esens

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hinrich Peters: Pansath . In: Field names collection of the East Frisian landscape. Accessed November 29, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Axel Heinze: Pansath . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 3, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-89534-959-1 , p. 1250 ff.
3. ↑ Axel Heinze: Land owned by the Pansath monastery (municipality of Holtgast).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Accessed November 20, 2012.  

Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 3.8 ″  N , 7 ° 33 ′ 25.8 ″  E