St. Blasien Monastery (Northeim)
The St. Blasien monastery (named after Saint Blasius von Sebaste ), of which only the so-called St. Blasien complex remains today, was a Benedictine abbey and is located in the center of the city of Northeim .
history
The wish of Count Otto von Northeim (d. 1083) was decisive for the establishment of the St. Blasien monastery (around 1100), but this was only realized by his sons in the county of Northeim after his death . Initially founded as a canon monastery, it was converted into a Benedictine monastery a little later .
The convenient location at the intersection of two old trade routes soon led to the formation of a market settlement, which formed the nucleus of Northeim and favored the development of the city. The city charter was granted in 1252.
In the 15th century, the Reinhausen monk Johannes Dederoth entered the monastery, who later reformed the Bursfelde monastery as abbot and thus gave the impetus to found the Bursfeld congregation , an important association of Benedictine convents. After his return, Dederoth first introduced the Bursfeld reforms in Reinhausen Monastery , as his friars could not initially be won over to stricter monastic disciplines. After Dederoth's death in 1439, Johannes von Hagen († 1469) became abbot of Bursfelde, and the congregation was recognized by the church a year later. However, it was not until 1464 that the St. Blasien monastery also joined the Bursfeld monastery association. The background of the monastery reform was u. a. the Devotio moderna , with the help of which the solidified liturgy of the Benedictines found new, internalized forms of expression.
The convention opposed the introduction of Lutheranism on a visitation in 1541/42, initiated by the Duchess Elisabeth of Braunschweig . At that time, however, the monastery was already being dissolved; after the abbot died in 1545, only four brothers lived in the settlement. The number may have increased slightly in the following years, but the plague epidemics of 1552/53 and 1565/66 wiped out most of them. In 1570, however, the last abbot, Johann Beckmann, gave up and left Northeim, with which, apart from a brief interlude in 1629, during the Thirty Years' War, monastic life in the St. Blasien monastery was extinguished. As early as 1541, the administration of the property was carried out by an official of the Duchess.
Large parts of the former monastery complex fell into disrepair over time and were removed as part of the inner city modernization in the 1970s.
nature
The St. Blasien complex, which has been preserved to this day, was taken over by the city of Northeim in 1975 and extensively restored. Today it houses, among other things, the St. Blasien Chapel, which was completed in 1517. This is the former sacristy of the Northeim Minster Church, which was never built, and has been dedicated to worship services since its completion. The evangelical church community has been celebrating its services here since April 28, 1957.
The Bürgersaal, which was set up in 1982 for festive receptions in the city of Northeim and smaller cultural events, is still located in the building. This room is named after the citizens' hall of the medieval town hall on the market, which burned down in 1832.
Furthermore, the registry office, citizens' office, the federal home group Neustadt / OS (today's Prudnik in Poland) and the "Klosterschänke", a restaurant with a medieval vaulted cellar, are located there.
Web links
- History of the monastery and the citizens' hall
- Klostergut St.Blasien in the Lower Saxony Monument Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn: Church history. The spiritual administration of southern Lower Saxony . In: Historical-regional excursion map of Lower Saxony, sheet Moringen . Lax, Hildesheim 1976, ISBN 3-7848-3624-0 , p. 171 .
- ^ GJ Vennigerholz: Description and history of the city of Northeim in Hanover and its immediate vicinity . Spannaus, Northeim 1894, p. 110 f .
Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 20.7 " N , 9 ° 59 ′ 50.3" E