Elsey Abbey, earlier Elsey Priory (
German: Kloster Elsey), is a former women's religious house located near Elsey, now part of
Hohenlimburg,
Hagen,
Germany.
It was founded in about 1220 by
Friedrich von Isenberg[1] for
Premonstratensiancanonesses and endowed with the local parish church and other possessions. In the 15th century, it became a house of secular canonesses of the nobility (a Damenstift) under an abbess. In the 16th century, during the
Reformation, the parish became
Protestant, and the abbey followed suit in due course.
It was dissolved in 1810, during the
secularisation of the period.
There remain the
Romanesque church and some of the canonesses' houses.
^daughter of Adrian von Syberg zum Busch and Margareta von Voss zum Rodenberg
^daughter of Hans Adolf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Johanna Dorothea zu Schaumburg-Lippe-Bernburg
^daughter of Friedrich Moritz zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Christiane Marie zur Lippe
Sources
Klueting, E., 1980: Das (freiweltliche) adelige Damenstift Elsey. Geschichte, Verfassung und Grundherrschaft in Spätmittelalter und Frühneuzeit. Freunde der Burg Altena: Altena 1980 Altenaer Beiträge 14 – Freunde der Burg Altena: Altena ISSN 0516-8260 (also: Bochum, Ruhr-Univ., Dissertation 1976)
Elsey Abbey, earlier Elsey Priory (
German: Kloster Elsey), is a former women's religious house located near Elsey, now part of
Hohenlimburg,
Hagen,
Germany.
It was founded in about 1220 by
Friedrich von Isenberg[1] for
Premonstratensiancanonesses and endowed with the local parish church and other possessions. In the 15th century, it became a house of secular canonesses of the nobility (a Damenstift) under an abbess. In the 16th century, during the
Reformation, the parish became
Protestant, and the abbey followed suit in due course.
It was dissolved in 1810, during the
secularisation of the period.
There remain the
Romanesque church and some of the canonesses' houses.
^daughter of Adrian von Syberg zum Busch and Margareta von Voss zum Rodenberg
^daughter of Hans Adolf zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Johanna Dorothea zu Schaumburg-Lippe-Bernburg
^daughter of Friedrich Moritz zu Bentheim-Tecklenburg and Christiane Marie zur Lippe
Sources
Klueting, E., 1980: Das (freiweltliche) adelige Damenstift Elsey. Geschichte, Verfassung und Grundherrschaft in Spätmittelalter und Frühneuzeit. Freunde der Burg Altena: Altena 1980 Altenaer Beiträge 14 – Freunde der Burg Altena: Altena ISSN 0516-8260 (also: Bochum, Ruhr-Univ., Dissertation 1976)