Congregation of Windesheim

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

The result is the Congregation of the original lay community of the Brothers of the Common Life. The spirituality of which is the Modern Devotion, which arrived at the choir Mr. Thomas a Kempis to full bloom.

It is named after the monastery of Windesheim in Zwolle (The Netherlands ), which was inaugurated on October 17, 1387. Thanks to the reform efforts of the Hildesheim canons John Busch (1400-1480), the Congregation spread particularly in northwest Germany. Frenswegen Abbey was the first German monastery, 1400, the Windesheim Congregation joined. Other monasteries were, among others, Mr. Corpse convent in Cologne, Gaesdonck monastery, Monastery Böddeken in the Bishopric of Paderborn, Monastery Cherry Orchard at Worms, Rebdorf monastery in Bavaria or monastery Riechenberg near Goslar. Also Grauhof in High Monastery of Hildesheim was renewed after the recatholicization 1643 Windesheim canons. The local Provost Bernhard Goeken was 1715-1726 Superior General of the Congregation. In Switzerland, St. Leonhard Beerberg concluded in Basel, Winterthur and St. Martin in Zurich at the Congregation.

The last remaining canonry of the Congregation, Frenswegen monastery was dissolved in 1809 under Napoleon. In 1961 the congregation was re-founded by the worldwide confederation of Augustinian canons. Today, with its headquarters in the provost Paring in the district of Kelheim near Regensburg.