Reinfeld Abbey

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Monastery Reinfeld ( Purus campus ) was a Cistercian monastery in Reinfeld in Holstein.

History

Monastery Reinfeld was in 1186 at the instigation of Count Adolf III. founded by Holstein by Cistercian monks from the Monastery as a monastery Loccum Reynevelde. In November 1190 the first abbot Hartmannus pulled a 12 monks in the monastery provisional, the final church was probably consecrated until 1236. The monks put on numerous ponds, which they used for carp breeding. However, the time up to 60 carp ponds were not sufficient to meet the demand for fish of the monastery, so that in addition had to be purchased even larger amounts of fish from Lübeck to supply the monks. The monastery developed thanks to the foresight of its abbots rapidly becoming one of the richest and most prestigious monasteries in Northern Germany with extensive land holdings ranging in the Baltic States and valuable investments in the Saline Lüneburg. Around 1440 there were 60 Fratres (52 priests and 8 lay brothers ) in the monastery.

The rich monastery had a town house / farmstead in neighboring Lübeck. The establishment situated on the Upper Trave between Marles and Dankwartsgrube former residence in Reinfeld was demolished for the construction of an air -raid shelter, which, however, takes forms of the old building, 1938. During the Reformation, the monastery turmoil by the Mayor of Lübeck Jürgen Wullenweber was sacked in 1534. 1582 the monastery was secularized and passed under the abbot John Kule to Duke Johann the Younger of Plön.

After the monastery was demolished in the 16th century, a royal castle was built on the same spot, in the period 1599-1604. It served the Duke of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg the remains of the monastery complex as building material. The handsome church was in 1635 when a dam break of the jammed Lord pond completely destroyed. In its place a much smaller church was built in 1636 against flooding on the Eichberg.

Abbots

  • Hartmannus, 1190 -
  • Hartwich von Reventlow, -1380 ( grave plate at the Matthias -Claudius - church)
  • Hildebrand, -1483 ( grave slab in the north chapel )
  • John IV, -1498 ( grave slab in the north chapel )
  • Marquard, -1506 ( grave slab in the north chapel )
  • Georgius, -1508 ( grave plate at the Matthias -Claudius - church)
  • Theodoric, -1526 ( grave slab in the north chapel )
  • Paul, -1541 ( grave plate at the Matthias -Claudius - church)
  • John Kule, -1582
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