Liebenau monastery

The monastery Liebenau was a Dominican convent, which originally lay outside the town of Worms, in the present district of Worms- Hochheim.

Location

Liebenau monastery was located in the east of Hochheim district, against Neuhausen, on Pfrimmübergang, in the area of ​​today's Von Steuben Street. There is also an Engelmann and a Holder Tree Road, both of which are reminiscent of the monastery founders or their families.

History

The monastery Liebenau is closely linked to the nearby, also defunct St. Cyriacus pen in Worms- Neuhausen.

The Cyriakus pin Neuhausen has a very high age and to have been a Frankish royal court, which was converted to 630 in a church of St. Dionysius of King Dagobert I.. Bishop Samuel of Worms ( 841-856 ), abbot also in the kingdom of Lorsch Abbey, bought from Rome the relics of St. Cyriacus, one of the most revered 14 helpers and spent it in the Neuhauser church that soon the new saint was the patron and a collegiate was connected. Thus it became a pilgrimage center.

Emperor Henry V, who visited the monastery in 1111 was, built a castle in the vicinity which was destroyed in 1124.

This castle complex with polygonal curtain wall, was only a little west of the pin Neuhausen, on a peninsula formed by the river Pfrimm and the local mill stream. They also introduced the innocuous name " pigeon house " and was in 1288, in a feud between clergy and city, final ruin. The Worms citizens Konrad Tree Holder acquired the area and his son John Holder tree it got to his relatives Jacob Engelmann and Lieba born Holder tree. The latter was probably the sister of John Holder Tree

The couple Jacob and Lieba Engelmann donated in 1299, to be buried under the condition there, at that place a nunnery. The name " Liebenau " was derived by Johann Friedrich Schannat, in "Historia episcopatus Wormatiensis ", 1734 (page 171), the name of the donor, " Lieba " from. The Bishop of Worms Eberwin Kronenberg († April 22, 1308 ) laid the foundation stone in 1300 and also attended for completion after the death of the founder. The parish Einselthum belonged to the monastery. At the beginning of the 16th century the monastery had possessions in Osthofen, Pfeddersheim, Alsheim, Einselthum, Westhofen Gundersheim, Stupid Home, calibration, Hochheim, Leiselheim and Pfiffligheim.

1327, the year of death of her husband Adolf von der Pfalz pulled his wife, Countess Palatine Irmengard von Oettingen with their children in the fledgling monastery Liebenau back. First, she lived as a guest in the Convention to 1344 she appeared there as a Dominican nun and lived there as a nun until her death in 1389 (various sources mention also the year in 1399 ). Already in 1344 acquired the Liebenauer nuns " with the introduced property of their contemporaries and choir sister Irmegard, the Count Palatine Adolf Widow", from the Abbey Neuweiler in Alsace, patronage and tithes of the church of St. Martin to Einselthum, and there even the cloister and the so-called Stone House; as Country Estate in Rüssingen. In Liebenau Irmengard founded on December 1, 1381 a to sing daily Mass, the so-called Convention Exhibition.

Countess Palatine Irmengard was buried after her death in Liebenau monastery. The historian Johann Friedrich Schannat has handed down the now non-existent grave inscription in his " Historia episcopatus Wormatiensis " (page 172). In it is noted that the princess lived for 40 years as a nun.

Irmengards brother Ludwig died in 1346 during a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. He had bequeathed the gift of a magnificent reliquary cross at the monastery Liebenau, which was made ​​according to the inscription on behalf of the father. The cross came in a roundabout way to Freiburg im Breisgau and is among the exhibits of the Augustinian Museum

Here in Liebenau monastery held at times even Irmengards daughter Beatrice of Sicily -Aragon with her on. The Dominican chronicler Johannes Meyer (1422-1482) reported that Pfalzgräfin Beatrix in Liebenau her son Ruprecht gave birth and this was raised there until the age of 7 by the grandmother Irmengard von Oettingen.

Since about 1445 lived as a lay sister in Liebenau also Princess Margaret of the Palatinate, a disabled daughter of Elector Ludwig III. She died on November 23, 1466 and to have been of great piety. Your cousins ​​Barbara von Pfalz- Mosbach (1444-1486) and Dorothea von Pfalz- Mosbach (1439-1482), daughter of Count Palatine Otto I, were also Dominican nuns in Liebenau, Princess Dorothea officiated at times even as prioress of the convent.

By spending the Countess Palatine Irmengard and their princely family in Liebenau the monastery of a very special favor and affection of the Palatine dynasty enjoyed. Therefore, many noblewomen but also distinguished citizen daughters around there were a as sisters. In addition to the Countess Palatine these were, inter alia, Countess Irmengard of Nassau, born Princess of Hohenlohe- Weikersheim. She was the cousin ( mother's side) of Countess Palatine Irmengard of Oettingen and widow of Count I. Gerlach (Nassau ), the cousin of the late Adolf Count Palatine. Irmengard of Nassau died at Liebenau, in January 1371; in the odor of sanctity, such as the Historical Society of Hesse holds. Likewise, there dwelt Margarethe von Württemberg ( † 1479 ), daughter of Count Ulrich V, and Margarethe von Hanau- coins mountain ( † 1503), who also descended from the Palatinate Wittelsbach, as their grandmother Margarethe von Pfalz- Mosbach, the sister of the above Liebenauer nuns Dorothea von Pfalz- Mosbach and Barbara von Pfalz- Mosbach was. Since 1392 also lived Else von Stromberg, an illegitimate daughter of Prince Elector Ruprecht II, as a nun in the convent Liebenau.

On behalf of Elector Ludwig III. renewed the Dominican Peter of Gengenbach 1430 the monastic life in Liebenau. He brought nuns from Colmar and led the Convention back under the strict observance. Several aristocratic sisters left then Liebenau, while others, mostly from the environment of the Count's house, entered there. Peter of Gegenbach died on 16 January 1452 in a monastery at Liebenau begraben.Auch he handed Johann Friedrich Schannat in his Historia episcopatus Wormatiensis the grave inscription, in which he is called " Augsburger Dominicans and reformer of the monastery ."

List of Prioresses

As Prioresses are known:

Repeal

During the Reformation Count Palatine Frederick III tried. to 1563 three times Monastery Liebenau cancel forcibly in the years 1561, while the sisters always resisted. Already in 1560 she had complained about the massive disruption to their religious practice on the part of Protestants to the Emperor, whereupon he ordered that at least a Catholic confessor must have free access to the nuns and the Count Palatine instructed accordingly in a letter.

After the failed attempt of 1561 Repeal Count Palatine Frederick III. in May 1562 to get the instructions to its officials, they should go to the monasteries Himmelskron and Liebenau and the nuns open his gracious intentions, after which he, as her father of his country ardently wish that "they add, as obedient children, his will and keep itself in the pure divine words "; the previous Metten, as well as other Latin chants should be omitted from now on. The envoys did as ordered, but the prioress of both monasteries remained steadfast with her sisters. They left the commission only as far as the language grid, from where it then as explicitly states had to withdraw " in disgrace ".

At the third attempt resolution on 16 March 1563 Prioress received the Electoral Commission after threats of violence in a room of the monastery where all Conventual, namely 13 nuns and 9 lay sisters were gathered in their religious attire. The state officials made ​​them the following protocol:

"We presented the Elector writing and then translated apart his desire, after which the prioress to steadfast and so frankly stated: you seye of their parents in their youth to the monastery have been determined and have come into the same; they will therefore their faith, where she teaches seye, never deny, much less put the religious clothing, in that they did so, never leave together with their subordinates, the monastery walls and so with their clothes no one could give an impetus; her singing and reading, she continued, ever all their rule, they know for a laudable, Christian order; a Prädicanten they could not accept and if one should be placed so they would the same for the reason not listen to them because they could not set up in the various faith which would preached at the time. The prioress could be done not perverted by our defenses and finally said, we should ask all their Conventualinnen to their opinion, so that we do not want to believe they have aufgestiftet the same; whereupon they all declared unanimously that they would never leave their faith and begged the Elector to let them in the same. "

The final seizure of the ruler succeeded only in 1570; the Dominicans were expelled in 1565 and settled with her ​​last prioress Anna of Seckendorf in the monastery Adelhausen in Freiburg im Breisgau on. Earlier, Elector Frederick III. the sisters intimidated with a personal appearance in Liebenau violence, in which he got by a painting of the crucifixion by hand with the fist. In vain Anne of Seckendorf had the Elector Palatine sued at the Diet of Augsburg in 1566, the monastery still retten.Der basic goods and possessions fell to the Palatine "Spiritual Goods Administration" in Heidelberg, which leased the convent building. 1730 acquired the Worms Bishop Franz Ludwig von Pfalz- Neuburg, the buildings and land for the Foundation Hospital Neuhausen Horchheim. Any modifications and destruction in later years is nothing remains of the building complex.

Special

Countess Palatine Margaret of Savoy was at the court was a " dwarf " called Katharine, the one housed after 1470 occurred the death of the princess with the sisters in the convent Liebenau and supply there.

According to Johann Friedrich Schannat ( "Historia episcopatus Wormatiensis ", page 172) was in Liebenau the 3- year-old Prince Adolf, son of Prince Elector Ruprecht II buried. According epitaph he died on the feast of the Apostles Philip and James, in the year 1358th

The obtained in Worms- Hochheim, today's ( Roman Catholic ) Church of St. Mary Himmelskron not belonged to the monastery Liebenau, but the adjacent Dominican convent Himmelskron.

In the 19th and 20th centuries was on the site of a monastery Liebenau, which named after this " Heyl'sche Lederwerk Liebenau ", a leather factory. The historically interested company owner Ludwig Freiherr von Heyl was 1929 make excavations on the site which are thoroughly documented.

Love Hof

In Osthofen ( Ludwig-Schwamb-Str. 22) exists to this day, the winery "Love Hof ", one of the oldest wineries in the region. It once belonged to the founder of the monastery Liebenau couple and this was paid, according to deed dated April 2, 1309. As Schenk donors functioned John Holder tree - probably a brother of Liebenauer monastery founder - and his wife Mechthild von Hirschberg.

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