Canons of Windesheim

Windesheim Monastery

The Windesheim Congregation of the Lateran Canons or the Canons Regular of the Lateran of the Windesheim Congregation ( Latin : Congregatio Canonicorum Regularium Lateranensium Vindesemensis , abbreviation : CRV ) are a congregation of the Augustinian Canons .

History of origin

The congregation arose from the original lay community of the Brothers of Common Life . Its spirituality is the Devotio moderna , which came to full bloom with the Canon Thomas von Kempen , the author of the world-famous Imitation of Christ .

It is named after the Windesheim monastery near Zwolle (Netherlands), which was inaugurated on October 17, 1387.

development

Frenswegen Monastery near Nordhorn

Thanks to the reform efforts of the Hildesheim canon Johannes Busch (1400–1480), the congregation expanded particularly in north-west Germany. Frenswegen Monastery was the first German monastery to join the Windesheim congregation in 1400. Other monasteries included Herrenleichnam Monastery in Cologne, Gaesdonck Monastery, Böddeken Monastery in the Prince Diocese of Paderborn , Kirschgarten Monastery and Höningen Monastery near Worms , Rebdorf Monastery and Birklingen Monastery in Bavaria or Riechenberg Monastery near Goslar. Also Grauhof in the Bishopric of Hildesheim was renewed after recatholicization 1643 Congregation of Windesheim. The provost Bernhard Goeken there was prior general of the congregation from 1715 to 1726. In Switzerland, St. Leonhard in Basel , Beerenberg in Winterthur and St. Martin in Zurich joined the congregation.

Since 1394, the Reform Congregation had also been extended to the women's convents of the order. A direct new foundation in Windesheim was in 1471 Fischbach Monastery in the diocese of Worms . The Marienberg monastery in Neuss also belonged to the Windesheim congregation from the beginning (1439).

The last remaining canon of the congregation, Frenswegen Monastery, was dissolved under Napoleon in 1809. In 1961 the Congregation was founded by Pope John XXIII at the instigation of the worldwide Confederation of Augustinian Canons. revived by decree. Today the seat of the general provost is in the Abbey of Maria Regina in Tor Lupara near Rome.

The congregation has also had a German house since 1974, the Propstei St. Michael in Paring , located in the diocese of Regensburg .

literature

Wilhelm Kohl , Ernest Persoons, Anton G. Weiler (eds.): Monasticon Windeshemense. 4 volumes. Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique, Brussels 1976-1984 ( Archives et bibliothèques de Belgique. Numéro spécial; 16).
Aloysia Elisabeth Jostes: The historicization of the Devotio moderna in the 15th and 16th centuries. Association consciousness and self-understanding of the Windesheim congregation. Self-published, Groningen 2008, ISBN 978-90-367-3478-3 (also: Groningen, Univ., Diss., 2008).

Web links

Propstei Paring ( Memento from December 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Information on the Windesheim Congregation (English) ( Memento from April 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

^ Josef Siegwart: Augustinian Canons. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on January 9, 2009
^ Franz Neumer: Fischbach - Kloster, Hofgut und Dorf , Fischbach community, 1981, p. 30
↑ Erich Wisplinghoff: History of the city of Neuss, part 4: The church Neuss until 1814, parish relationships and religious institutes . Neuss 1989, p. 154 .

[HLS-1] Josef Siegwart: Augustinian Canons. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz ., Accessed on January 9, 2009

[2] Franz Neumer: Fischbach - Kloster, Hofgut und Dorf , Fischbach community, 1981, p. 30

[3] Erich Wisplinghoff: History of the city of Neuss, part 4: The church Neuss until 1814, parish relationships and religious institutes . Neuss 1989, p. 154 .