Steinfeld Abbey

Kloster Steinfeld in the Eifel is a former Premonstratensian abbey with a major basilica from the early 12th century. Well situated visible on a hill in the south of the North Rhine-Westphalian municipality Kall, forms the " Eifel monastery" with few surrounding houses the district Steinfeld.

The monastery is located since 1923 in the possession of Salvatorianerordens which the Hermann -Josef -Kolleg Steinfeld, a high school with boarding facilities, as well as the private art academy Steinfeld monastery and Francis Jordan guest house maintains in Steinfeld. After the Order was already the end of the school year 2011/2012 include the boarding school, this could be averted by a parents' initiative. But the remaining 15 students were not sufficient and the boarding school was closed at the end of the school year 2012/2013. The monastery with only four active Salvatorians to be sold. Basilica and vicarage thereof, except that they belong to the local parish.

  • 2.1 Hermann -Joseph- grave
  • 2.2 King - organ
  • 2.3 cloister
  • 2.4 Steinfeld in the literature
  • 2.5 Picture Gallery

History

Although the beginnings of the monastery date back to circa 920, was the first monastic establishment in Steinfeld 1070. 1130 it was taken over by Premonstratensians. The monastery was an important ecclesiastical center in the German Empire and had numerous subsidiary offices in Europe, for example, the Strahov Monastery in Prague. 1184 was the monastery of Steinfeld the status of an abbey. The abbey had a courtyard, the stone farm fields near the church of St. Gereon in the west of Cologne in Cologne. Here the Collegium Norbertinum was founded in 1615 by Abbot Christopher Pilckmann, which served as the residence for the preparation and the Order members, if they studied at the old Cologne University.

The continuous series of 44 abbots was only ended by the 1802 secularization. After that, the plant served various secular purposes, the basilica was subsequently used as a parish church. The plant was taken over by the Salvatorians as a monastery in 1923.

Abbacy

The following list refers to the Series praepositorum et abbatum Steinfeldensium "

Provosts

  • Eberwin of Helfenstein 1121-1160
  • Ulrich 1160-1170
  • Werner 1170-1178
  • Tezelin 1178
  • Hermann 1178-1184

Abbots

  • 01 Albert 1184-1189
  • 02 Erenfried 1189-1208
  • 03 Eberhard 1208-1211
  • 04 Macarius 1211-1247
  • 05 Gerhard 1247-1248
  • 06 Goswin I. 1248-1252
  • 07 Lambert 1252-1258
  • 08 Goswin II of Jülich 1248-1272
  • 09 John I of Leuven 1272-1279
  • 10 Wimar 1279-1298
  • 11 Adolf von Dolldorf 1298-1304
  • 12 Friedrich 1304-1334
  • 13 Marsilius 1334-1356
  • 14 Winrich Rumschüttel 1356-1362; resigned
  • 15 Matthias von Fischenich 1362-1366; resigned
  • 16 Conrad I 1366-1369; resigned
  • 17 Gerhard II of Höningen 1369-1380; defrocked
  • 18 Gottftried of Bungenberg 1381-1388; murdered by Bretons

Basilica

The monastery attached to the basilica was built in 1142-1150 as one of the earliest German vaulted churches of the Premonstratensians. It is dedicated to St. Potentinus and his two sons Felicius and Simplicius. Today, the building parts of several art movements, from the original Romanesque to Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque to modern steel applications. The Basilica has eight bays and six chapels, including the Stephen Chapel and the Chapel Ursula. The Basilica also contains the famous king - organ as well as the remains of the venerated as a Saint Hermann Joseph of Steinfeld. The rank of a papal basilica minor received the church in 1960.

Hermann -Joseph- grave

The grave of Joseph Hermann of Steinfeld, placed in the middle of the church and covered by a 1732 board manufactured with a recumbent figure of alabaster, the Church makes it a place of pilgrimage. The actual tomb of Urfter marble comes from the year 1701. Traditionally, there are always a few fresh apples on the grave beside the alabaster figure. According to legend, Hermann Joseph is once the baby Jesus of the Virgin Mary in the church of St. Mary have offered an apple in the Capitol at Cologne, which it had adopted.

King - organ

Already in the 16th century decreed Steinfelder Basilica either a swallow's nest organ on the north nave wall or a rood screen organ. 1509 choir screen from the third bay was transferred to the input yoke of the church where in 1600 - presumably by Floris Hoque from Brabant - the first major organ was. For this, a new organ achtfüßiges main mechanism housing was built in 1678 in Baroque décor. After 1720 it was supplemented by a Rückpositiv housing and two pedal towers in the gallery balustrade. The organ was completed in 1727 by Balthasar King of Bad Münster Eifel. King used to this, the old pipes stocks (17 registers). The result was a work for organ with 29 registers.

A modernization (extension to 46 registers, electrification of the play and stop action ) learned the organ in 1934, 1977 shut down due to malfunction, it was -. , After extensive research - 1981 lavishly restored original baroque style by the organ builder Weimbs from Hellenthal, so that they are now in terms of playing technique and sound, largely located in the state in 1727 again. It comprises 1956 pipes and 35 speaking stops and mechanical play and stop action. The pipe work is mostly original. At the oldest pipes Gießtuchspuren can still be seen. It is one of the most important organs of the Rhenish Baroque.

  • Couplers: II / I, I / P, II / P
  • In addition to register: Nightingale

Cloister

The original Romanesque cloister was replaced from 1492 to 1517 by a gothic style. The ornate stained glass windows of the Ganges (manufactured 1526-1557 ) were sold after the secularization via Cologne to England. There, some were built in the village churches and private chapels, as in that of the Earl Brownlow in Ashridge Park. Montague Rhodes James, who cataloged the glass window in the early 20th century, was inspired by his ghost story The Treasure of Abbott Thomas, whose action takes place partly in ( one of James imagined ) Steinfeld. An illustration of the Queen of Sheba before Solomon came into the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Depden, Suffolk. The majority of the glass window is now in the Victoria and Albert Museum (see glass window of Christ's resurrection ). Only two slices came back to Steinfeld.

Steinfeld in the literature

The secularized Steinfeld monastery is the scene of horror story "The Treasure of Abbot Thomas" by Montague Rhodes James, in which an English scholar is guided by a mysterious, life passed to Norwich church windows of the monastery on the trail of a treasure and his supernatural Bewachers.

Gallery

  • Interior Klostertor
  • The Prelature, the main building of the monastery
  • Sundial in front of the Prelature
  • Sculpture of Francis Mary of the Cross Jordan
  • Side altar and frescoes
  • Ribbed and painted ceiling
  • Choir and high altar
  • Altarpiece
  • Nave of the Basilica ( look to the high altar )
  • Sarcophagus of St. Hermann Joseph
  • Pieta in the Basilica
  • Stations of the Cross in the Basilica
  • Mission Cross
  • Mary Magdalene Altar
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