Obernkirchen Abbey

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St. Marien Collegiate Church
Former enclosure building

Obernkirchen Abbey is a Protestant women's abbey in Obernkirchen . Today the pen is a corporation under public law .

history

According to a Minden chronicle, the Obernkirchen monastery was founded by Ludwig the Pious (814–840) as the oldest religious settlement between the Weser and Leine . In the year 936 Hungarians are said to have attacked and burned the monastery, but this is not documented. The first documentary evidence of the monastery dates back to 1167. The Augustinian convent was founded in place of the older monastery by Bishop Werner von Minden and received local authority over Obernkirchen.

In 1559, the Reformation was introduced into the county of Schaumburg by a decree by Count Otto IV . The nuns of the Obernkirchen monastery resisted the Reformation. However, they had to submit to the count's violence. The monastery was stripped of its sovereign rights in 1560, but not abolished. In 1565 it was converted into a noble Protestant women's monastery, which was primarily intended for the daughters of the Schaumburg nobility. After the division of the Grafschaft Schaumburg, the monastery and the town came to the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel in 1647 . The monastery was dissolved in 1810, but re-established in 1814 and assigned to the Hanover monastery chamber.

In 1962, the abbess took over the legal representation of the monastery as head of the charter in place of the monastery administrator. Collegiate women no longer had to be noble.

In the west wing of the monastery there has been a conference center for the “Spiritual Community Renewal in the Evangelical Church eV” since 1994. Since 2010 the monastery has housed a “women's place” in memory of Agnes von Dincklage , an important headmistress of the women's school of the Reifensteiner Verband , who was based in the monastery from 1901 to 1970.

See also: Stiftskirche St. Marien (Obernkirchen)

literature

  • Dieter Brosius : The Obernkirchen Abbey, 1167–1565 (= Schaumburger studies, vol. 30). Grimme, Bückeburg 1972.
  • Dieter Brosius: After eight hundred years: five documents on the history of the Obernkirchen Abbey (= Schaumburger Heimathefte, vol. 14). Rinteln 1977.
  • Dieter Brosius: Obernkirchen: Augustiner Canon Monastery, since the Reformation a free world women's monastery ([before 936?] 1167 to the present) . In: Lower Saxony monastery book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginning to 1810 , vol. 3: Marienthal to Zeven . Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2012, pp. 1109–1115.
  • Matthias Seeliger (edit.): Book of accounts of the Obernkirchen Abbey, 1475–1479 (= Schaumburger Studies, Vol. 47). Bösendahl, Rinteln 1987, ISBN 3-87085-115-5 .
  • Rolf Krumsiek: Obernkirchen. Chronicle of an old city . City of Obernkirchen, Obernkirchen 1981, ISBN 3-9800549-0-X .
  • Ernst Andreas Friedrich : The collegiate church of Obernkirchen . In: If stones could talk , Vol. IV. Landbuch-Verlag, Hanover 1998, ISBN 3-7842-0558-5 , pp. 119–121.
  • Carl Wilhelm Wippermann : Document book of the Obernkirchen Abbey in the county of Schaumburg . C. Bösendahl, Rinteln 1855 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library).
  • Ortrut Wörner-Heil: women's schools in the countryside. Reifenstein Association (1897–1997) . Archive of the German women's movement, Kassel, 2nd edition 1997, ISBN 3-926068-12-4 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Werner Führer: Schaumburg-Lippe . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE), Vol. 30, pp. 80–83, here p. 81.