Sankt Joost (Stinstedt)
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Saint Joost
community Stinstedt
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 53 ″ N , 8 ° 57 ′ 57 ″ E
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Location of Sankt Joost in Lower Saxony |
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Sankt Joost is a district of the municipality of Stinstedt in the district of Cuxhaven in Lower Saxony . It lies between Odisheim and Stinstedt.
history
In the municipality of Stinstedt (district of Cuxhaven), in the lowlands of the Hadeln region, visitors discover the memorial “St. Joost ". It commemorates the pilgrimage chapel for St. Jodokus, which was important here in the Middle Ages. The memorial stone to St. Joost, erected in 1998 by the municipalities of Stinstedt and Odisheim , is not far from the road between the two places near the Hadelner Canal. A notice board today points to the horticultural complex, in which a church-like wooden structure invites you to linger in a birch grove.
In the Middle Ages, Sankt Joost developed into a widely popular pilgrimage site , which was visited by pilgrims from many northern German cities. The destination of the hikers was the small, richly furnished Jodokus chapel, which is mentioned as early as 1367. The settlement around this chapel has been documented since 1475. To commemorate and certify their pilgrimage to St. Joost, the travelers received pilgrim signs cast from metal , on which the figure of St. Jodokus can be seen.
The complex included a number of houses in which travelers were taken in and the sick were treated. The oak posts rammed into the bog ground served as foundations. They were discovered in an excavation in 1925 and 1932/33 by Arnold Dock and W. Klenck along with many medieval objects and coins.
After the Reformation, the Sankt Joost chapel fell into disrepair because the North Germans who had become Protestant no longer went on pilgrimage. The chapel was demolished in 1541 and the inventory was distributed among the surrounding parishes. The altar lights from the 15th century and the crucifixion group from the 16th century are said to have moved from the chapel to Bülkau . It shows next to Jesus the mother Mary and his favorite disciple Johannes. The custom built around 1490 chalice from the chapel of St. Joost is now in the church of Lamstedt used for the Lord's Supper celebrations.
In 2008, the Heimatbund “ Men from Morgenstern ” (Bremerhaven) took over the “Sankt Joost” memorial with a church-style celebration in the series of historically, culturally and natural-historically significant “milestones” in the district of Cuxhaven.
Saint Jodokus
The name “Joost”, which is widespread in northern Germany, is a modification of the saint's name Jodokus . This was a Breton prince who lived in the 7th century, renounced his high rank in order to live as a devoted hermit. Jodokus was later regarded as the protector of pilgrims, boatmen and bakers. Today Jodokus as a pilgrim adorns the coat of arms of the municipality of Stinstedt.
literature
- Kurt Brüning (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 2: Lower Saxony and Bremen (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 272). Kröner, Stuttgart 1958, DNB 456882812 .
- Arnold Dock: The St. Joost Chapel . In: Jahrbuch der Männer vom Morgenstern , vol. 23 (1926–1928), pp. 39–48.
- Johannes Göhler: The chapel “for consolation” in the moor - the medieval pilgrimage of the North Germans to St. Joost . In: Jahrbuch der Männer vom Morgenstern , vol. 77/78 (1998/1999), pp. 91–120.
- Wilhelm Klenck: News about the pilgrimage site St. Joost in the land of Hadeln . In: Jahrbuch der Männer vom Morgenstern , vol. 26 (1932–1933), pp. 34–54.
