Fröndenberg Monastery
The Fröndenberg Abbey in Fröndenberg was founded by the Archbishop of Cologne, Heinrich von Molenark, between 1225 and 1230 as a Cistercian convent . At the end of the 16th century it was converted into a women's pen. The collegiate church now serves as a Protestant parish church.
history
Otto von Altena financed the foundation. The Cistercian women came from Hoven, today Zülpich . The patron saint, along with the Virgin Mary, was the martyr Mauritius . Otto's sister Richardis became the first abbess, as documents from the years 1257 to 1270 attest. Between 1262 and 1391 the collegiate church was the burial place of the Counts von der Mark.
In the 16th century the monastery was converted into a free worldly women's monastery. Around 1650 it became a cross-denominational simultaneous pen, in which the unmarried daughters of the Evangelical Lutheran, Evangelical Reformed and Catholic nobility were cared for.
The monastery had 187 farms in a radius of up to 20 km. In 1805 the monastery received permission to build a bridge over the Ruhr . The monastery was dissolved on January 1, 1812 in the course of secularization .
Buildings
The abbey area is located on a stepped terrain that slopes down towards the Ruhr . It used to be surrounded by a wall. The two abbey buildings from 1607 and 1661, the adjoining Boeselagerhaus, built by canon Clara von Boeselager in 1783, and the abbey house from 1661 with the inscription “ Ida Plettenberg von Plettenberg from Lenhausen and Bergstrasse , Abbess in Fröndenberg, left me with my own resources edify ”are still preserved today. Remnants of the cloister with round and pointed arches are also preserved right next to the church .
The church is a Gothic hall church with a straight east end. The building has a central ridge turret.
The construction of the church from small blocks made of green sandstone began in the middle of the 13th century with the choir , the crossing and the cross arms . This component consists of roughly square yokes . Construction continued with the east yoke of the nave . Two slightly wide yokes in the west were necessary for the nuns' gallery. The construction of the upper storeys and the arching of the gallery bays are dated to around 1300.
literature
- Edeltraud Klueting : Fröndenberg - Cistercian women. In: Westfälisches Klosterbuch , Volume 1, Münster 1992, pp. 320-324.
- Dehio Association (Ed.): Georg Dehio Handbook of German Art Monuments. North Rhine-Westphalia II Westphalia . Berlin / Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2 , pp. 333-335
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Fröndenberg Collegiate Church . City of Unna
- ↑ A brief overview of the history of the city of Fröndenberg
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 25 ″ N , 7 ° 45 ′ 57 ″ E