Eppenberg Charterhouse

The Charterhouse Eppenberg is a ruined abbey near Gensungen, a district of rocky mountain in northern Hesse, which is still known by the last living in Eppenberg monastery Carthusian monks " Charterhouse ". In the vicinity is the state domain Mittelhof.

Chorus Women pin Eppenberg

To 1217 the nuns of Prämonstratenserinnenklosters Ahnaberg at Kassel were allowed on the Eppenberg, on a slope of the Holy Mountain, to build a monastery. On March 3, 1219 Archbishop Siegfried II of Mainz confirmed the foundation of the monastery Eppenberg and took it under his protection. The number of women in choir Ahnaberg was set at 40 and the extra chorus women went to Eppenberg, where they founded the new pen as a branch monastery of the congregation Ahnaberg.

But the relationship with the mother house was obviously not always without problems. 1223 stressed the provost and the Convention of Ahnaberg their rights in Eppenberg. On February 17, 1224, Archbishop Siegfried once more confirmed the privileges of the monastery Ahnaberg. But in 1250 the Prioress of Eppenberg refused to open the privileges of the congregation Ahnaberg, consisting of not more known today for reasons, and Eppenberg was an independent pin monastery, but also as Ahnaberg under the auspices of the Abbey Spieskappel. It soon flourished, mainly through donations and purchase of land in the nearby villages Altenbrunslar, Böddiger, Besse and Gensungen. In 1269 the foundation of the Prämonstratenserinnenstiftes St. George went out to the Efze of the Provost Arnold Eppenberg in Homberg. The growing prosperity, however, led subsequently to a decline of morals and discipline, and finally to waste, mismanagement and economic decline.

Charterhouse of St. John

Landgraf Ludwig I complained bitterly about the conditions in the monastery, the rundown estates and buildings, and the forgotten discipline, order and discipline. At his instigation was carried out by Papal Bull in 1438, the resolution of the pen and its transformation into a Carthusian monks from Erfurt, who entered in 1440. The monastery was named " St. Johannis " and was generously expanded and renovated. 1471 gave Landgrave Ludwig II the monastery the Wimmenhof (now Mittelhof domain ) and the nearby, dilapidated castle Heiligenberg, the monks made ​​this only the condition that they should pray for his salvation every week in the castle chapel.

Secularization

1527, according to the Homberg Synod of 1526, with which the Reformation was introduced in Hesse, the monastery was dissolved and used by Landgrave Philip I as a hunting lodge and economic asset. Around 1610, Landgrave Moritz hunting lodge inspired by Italian Renaissance palaces rebuilt. The buildings and lands were mitbewirtschaftet from near Mittelhof. In the Thirty Years' War, the plant was destroyed, then rebuilt into a Vorwerk and sheep farm, the state domain Mittelhof. During the Seven Years War ( 1756-63 ) to French troops entrenched after the lost battle at Grebestein seven weeks on the hill of the monastery; two jumps on the slope of Mount Athos still remember their camp.

Current usage

1957 burned the main building struck by lightning down to its walls. The buildings and the monastery church fell progressively until the District Beekeepers Association Felsberg from 1984 took over the re- fitting out and maintenance of the plant. In the former gatehouse of the monastery there was a remarkable beekeeping museum. From the monastery, even today, the ruins of the abbey church is still preserved.

The area around the Charterhouse and the ruins themselves were asked in December 1988 under nature protection.

51.14419.4642Koordinaten: 51 ° 8 ' 38.76 "N, 9 ° 27' 51.12 " E

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  • Gisela Helmerich: pen and Charterhouse to Eppenberg. ( Springs and essays on the history of the Abbey and Diocese of Fulda, 23 ), Parzeller, 1979 ISBN 3-7900-0090-6 Fulda.
  • Carthusian monastery ruins
  • Domain Mittelhof
  • Former Prämonstratenserinnenkloster in Hesse
  • Former Carthusian monastery in Germany
  • Ruins in Hessen
  • Monastery ( 13th century)
  • Felsberg (Hessen)
Topographia Germaniae Felsberg, Hesse Siegfried II (Archbishop of Mainz) Roman Catholic Diocese of Mainz Louis I, Landgrave of Hesse Louis II, Landgrave of Lower Hesse Heiligenburg Castle Synod of Homberg Protestant Reformation Grebenstein
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