Nottuln Abbey

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The collegiate church, today the parish church of St. Martin in Nottuln

The Nottuln Abbey in Nottuln was initially a women's monastery based on the rule of Augustine , from around 1493 a free-secular, aristocratic women's monastery . It existed until its dissolution in 1811 as a result of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803. The territory of the pen fell to the Kingdom of Prussia .

history

The founding history of Nottuln Abbey is in the dark. The foundation by Saint Liudger , the first bishop of Münster, which seemed to be confirmed by a document dated 834 from Bishop Gerfried von Münster, was an invention of Nottulner chaplain Albert Wilkens , who forged the document at the beginning of the 19th century.

An otherwise unknown nobleman Liutbert, who could be a relative of the Münster bishop Liutbert , is now considered to be the founder of the monastery . Liutberg's life dates match those of Saint Heriburg of Nottuln , who is considered the first abbess in Nottuln. It is questionable whether Liutbert's founding continued to the later monastery, as there is no evidence of the existence of the convent before 1184. There are neither documents before 1184 nor other mentions of a convent or structural remains. The first recorded abbess is Hildegund, who in 1184 was the recipient of a document from Bishop Hermann II of Münster. The early modern abbess calendars knew only three abbesses apart from Heriburg, so that it was founded in the 11th century. The monastery, whose bailiwick rights were exercised by the Ministerials von Nutloen and later the noblemen von Holte, owned lands and tithe rights within a 50 km radius of Nottuln. The pen that from 1501 only ritterblütige recorded people, had 25 prebends for canonesses. From 1587 the monastery fell into the Spanish-Dutch war, it was sacked several times, also raged from 1609 to 1636 three times the plague . The monastery buildings burned down on May 3, 1748, only the collegiate church was rebuilt. The Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803 determined the abolition of the pen in favor of the Kingdom of Prussia, which dissolved the pen in 1811. The files of the monastery came to the State Archives in Münster . The (former collegiate) church of St. Martinus still has two candle holders called Torsten from the collegiate days.

List of Abbesses

Grave slab of Abbess Elisabeth von Berg of Nottuln in Essen Minster

literature

  • Katrinette Bodarwé: Sophia von Essen and the certificate from Nottuln. In: Münster am Hellweg. Bulletin of the Association for the Preservation of the Essen Minster. Vol. 56, 2003, ZDB -ID 400327-5 , pp. 29-39.
  • Wilhelm Kohl (arrangement): The (free worldly) women's monastery Nottuln (= Germania Sacra NF 44: The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Cologne. The diocese of Münster 8), Berlin 2005.
  • Joseph Prinz: The document of Bishop Gerfried von Münster from 834 a forgery of Albert Wilkens. in: Westfälische Zeitschrift 112 (1962), pp. 1-51
  • Hans Jürgen Warnecke: Nottuln - Damenstift in: Westfälisches Klosterbuch (= publications of the Historical Commission for Westphalia 44, sources and research on churches and religious history 2), part 2, Münster 1994, pp. 150–158.

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