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| '''Amelungsborn Abbey''', also '''Amelunxborn Abbey''' (''Kloster Amelungsborn'')<ref>formerly also sometimes '''Amelunxen'''</ref> near ] and ], in the ''Landkreis'' of ] in the ] |
'''Amelungsborn Abbey''', also '''Amelunxborn Abbey''' (''Kloster Amelungsborn''),<ref>formerly also sometimes '''Amelunxen'''</ref> is a ] monastery in ], ]. It is located near ] and ], in the ''Landkreis'' of ] in the ]. It was the second oldest ] foundation in ], Germany, after ]. It survived the ] by becoming Lutheran, and with ], also previously Cistercian, is one of the only two Lutheran monasteries in Germany with an uninterrupted tradition. | ||
| The abbey church, St. Mary's, is also the parish church of the abbey's former estate villages Negenborn and ]. | The abbey church, St. Mary's, is also the parish church of the abbey's former estate villages Negenborn and ]. | ||
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| The site of the ''villa Amelungsborn''<ref>meaning "the spring of Amelung", after a spring still visible today</ref> to the west of the present Stadtoldendorf was originally part of the ancestral lands of the Counts of ].<ref>Heutger, N.C., Das Kloster Amelungsborn im Spiegel der zisterziensischen Ordensgeschichte, Hildesheim 1968, p.13.</ref> | The site of the ''villa Amelungsborn''<ref>meaning "the spring of Amelung", after a spring still visible today</ref> to the west of the present Stadtoldendorf was originally part of the ancestral lands of the Counts of ].<ref>Heutger, N.C., Das Kloster Amelungsborn im Spiegel der zisterziensischen Ordensgeschichte, Hildesheim 1968, p.13.</ref> | ||
| Siegfried IV, the last Count of Northeim-Boyneburg and Homburg<ref name="Große Baudenkmäler Heft 338 Kloster Amelungsborn">Große Baudenkmäler Heft 338 Kloster Amelungsborn, Verlag DONAU Druck 5. Auflage 1998, p. 2</ref> gave the land at Amelungsborn for the foundation of a Cistercian monastery, which was officially settled by a community of monks from ]<ref>Altenkamp or Kamp Abbey, also the mother house of the nearby Walkenried Abbey and ] near ], was the earliest Cistercian settlement in the entire region, a daughter house of ] and a granddaughter of ], the Cistercian motherhouse founded in 1098</ref> on 20 November 1135. | ]<ref name="Große Baudenkmäler Heft 338 Kloster Amelungsborn">Große Baudenkmäler Heft 338 Kloster Amelungsborn, Verlag DONAU Druck 5. Auflage 1998, p. 2</ref> gave the land at Amelungsborn for the foundation of a Cistercian monastery, which was officially settled by a community of monks from ]<ref>Altenkamp or Kamp Abbey, also the mother house of the nearby Walkenried Abbey and ] near ], was the earliest Cistercian settlement in the entire region, a daughter house of ] and a granddaughter of ], the Cistercian motherhouse founded in 1098</ref> on 20 November 1135. | ||
| With the establishment of this monastery and of the nearby ], built at around the same time, it seems that Count Siegfried was aiming to secure a part of his possessions that lay distant from his ancestral seat in North Hessen.<ref name="Stadtoldendorf und seine Beziehungen zum Kloster Amelungsborn">Stadtoldendorf und seine Beziehungen zum Kloster Amelungsborn http://www.kloster-amelungsborn.de/vortrag_partisch.htm am 30 |
With the establishment of this monastery and of the nearby ], built at around the same time, it seems that Count Siegfried was aiming to secure a part of his possessions that lay distant from his ancestral seat in North Hessen.<ref name="Stadtoldendorf und seine Beziehungen zum Kloster Amelungsborn">Stadtoldendorf und seine Beziehungen zum Kloster Amelungsborn http://www.kloster-amelungsborn.de/vortrag_partisch.htm {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080204050014/http://www.kloster-amelungsborn.de/vortrag_partisch.htm |date=4 February 2008 }} am 30 August 2006</ref> | ||
| No foundation charter has survived, although there is a confirmation dated 5 December 1129 by ].<ref>the authenticity of the document is disputed</ref> Nevertheless an interval of six years between foundation and settlement fits the general timescale of Cistercian foundations. | No foundation charter has survived, although there is a confirmation dated 5 December 1129 by ].<ref>the authenticity of the document is disputed</ref> Nevertheless, an interval of six years between foundation and settlement fits the general timescale of Cistercian foundations. | ||
| The abbey was dedicated in 1135 by ]. The first abbot of Amelungsborn, appointed in 1141, was Heinrich I, a half-brother of the founder, Count Siegfried IV. | The abbey was dedicated in 1135 by ]. The first abbot of Amelungsborn, appointed in 1141, was Heinrich I, a half-brother of the founder, Count Siegfried IV. | ||
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| Further foundations at one remove were at ] near ] and ] near ], daughter houses of Riddagshausen, and ] and ], daughter houses of Doberan. Amelungsborn became the richest monastery of the ] sphere of influence, and the one most closely connected with the German colonisation to the east. By about 1280 the community numbered 50 monks and 90 ]s. | Further foundations at one remove were at ] near ] and ] near ], daughter houses of Riddagshausen, and ] and ], daughter houses of Doberan. Amelungsborn became the richest monastery of the ] sphere of influence, and the one most closely connected with the German colonisation to the east. By about 1280 the community numbered 50 monks and 90 ]s. | ||
| Even after the alienation of their ] estates, principally round ] and ], in the 14th century, Amelungsborn Abbey remained an extensive landowner, thanks largely to the generosity of the Edelherren of Homburg, successors of the founder, and the Counts of Everstein, who gave many estates between the ] and ], among them lands at Allersheim near ], Schnedinghausen near ], Erzhausen, Bruchhof and Holtershausen near ], besides possessions in the towns of ], ] and ], and forests near the abbey itself. | Even after the alienation of their ] estates, principally round ] and ], in the 14th century, Amelungsborn Abbey remained an extensive landowner, thanks largely to the generosity of the Edelherren of Homburg, successors of the founder, and the Counts of Everstein, who gave many estates between the ] and ], among them lands at Allersheim near ], Schnedinghausen near ], Erzhausen, Bruchhof and Holtershausen near ], besides possessions in the towns of ], ] and ], and forests near the abbey itself. | ||
| ==After the Reformation== | ==After the Reformation== | ||
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| ==World War II== | ==World War II== | ||
| In ] the buildings were severely damaged, including the outer ring wall, on 8 April 1945, when the premises were heavily bombed by |
In ] the buildings were severely damaged, including the outer ring wall, on 8 April 1945, when the premises were heavily bombed by American troops in pursuit of fleeing SS units. The church sustained particularly heavy damage, and the south side of the nave and the east window of 1350 were totally destroyed.<ref name="Gedenktafel zum 6. April 1945 im Kloster in der Klosterkirche">Gedenktafel zum 6. April 1945 in der Klosterkirche ''https://www.flickr.com/photos/37925259@N00/275200180/'' am 17 September 2006</ref> Restoration work took place from 1954 to 1959. | ||
| <!--Neue Möglichkeiten für das Kloster brachte der ''Loccumer Vertrag'', ein Staatsvertrag von 1955 zwischen dem Land Niedersachsen und den fünf Landeskirchen. Die zuständigen kirchlichen Behörden konnten nun die ''Prälaturen'' Amelungsborn, ], ] und ] ohne staatliche Mitwirkung regeln.--> | <!--Neue Möglichkeiten für das Kloster brachte der ''Loccumer Vertrag'', ein Staatsvertrag von 1955 zwischen dem Land Niedersachsen und den fünf Landeskirchen. Die zuständigen kirchlichen Behörden konnten nun die ''Prälaturen'' Amelungsborn, ], ] und ] ohne staatliche Mitwirkung regeln.--> | ||
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| ==Abbots== | ==Abbots== | ||
| ⚫ | * Heinrich I (1141–43) | ||
| ⚫ | * Everhelm (c. 1150–84) | ||
| ⚫ | * Heinrich I ( |
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| ⚫ | * Everhelm (c. |
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| * Johann I (1186) | * Johann I (1186) | ||
| * Hoiko (1196–1201) | * Hoiko (1196–1201) | ||
| * Walbert (1204/ |
* Walbert (1204/5) | ||
| * Konrad (1209) | * Konrad (1209) | ||
| * Gottschalk ( |
* Gottschalk (1213–35) | ||
| * Dietrich ( |
* Dietrich (1236–45) | ||
| * Johann II ( |
* Johann II (1246–51) | ||
| * Arnold ( |
* Arnold (1254–69) | ||
| * Moritz ( |
* Moritz (1270–91) | ||
| * Balduin (1293–1301) | * Balduin (1293–1301) | ||
| * Bertram ( |
* Bertram (1302–11) | ||
| * Gieseler ( |
* Gieseler (1317–22) | ||
| * Ludolf I ( |
* Ludolf I (1326–29) | ||
| * Heinrich II ( |
* Heinrich II (1334–37) | ||
| * Ludolf II ( |
* Ludolf II (1339–53) | ||
| * Engelhard ( |
* Engelhard (1355–71) | ||
| * Johann (III) Maske ( |
* Johann (III) Maske (1377–78) | ||
| * Heinrich (III) Rikolf ( |
* Heinrich (III) Rikolf (1400–15) | ||
| * Reiner ( |
* Reiner (1417–26) | ||
| * Herwig ( |
* Herwig (1431–32) | ||
| * Johann IV (1433) | * Johann IV (1433) | ||
| * Saner von Horn ( |
* Saner von Horn (1438–62) | ||
| * Johann (V) Alremann ( |
* Johann (V) Alremann (1463–64) | ||
| * Heinrich (IV) von Horn ( |
* Heinrich (IV) von Horn (1465–77) | ||
| * Johann (VI) von Dassel ( |
* Johann (VI) von Dassel (1477–83) | ||
| * Bernhard von Haselünne ( |
* Bernhard von Haselünne (1483–85) | ||
| * Werner von der Werder ( |
* Werner von der Werder (1487–95) | ||
| * Gebhard Maske (1499–1510) | * Gebhard Maske (1499–1510) | ||
| * Hermann Kannegießer ( |
* Hermann Kannegießer (1516–31) | ||
| * Veit Teckermester ( |
* Veit Teckermester (1533–53) | ||
| * Andreas Steinhauer ( |
* Andreas Steinhauer (1555–88) – the first Lutheran abbot | ||
| * Vitus Buchius ( |
* Vitus Buchius (1588–98) | ||
| * Anton Georgius (1598–1625) | * Anton Georgius (1598–1625) | ||
| * Theodor Berkelmann ( |
* Theodor Berkelmann (1625–45) | ||
| * Statius Fabricius ( |
* Statius Fabricius (1647–49) | ||
| * Hermann Topp(ius) ( |
* Hermann {{proper name|Topp(ius)}} (1655–75) | ||
| * Herbert Rudolphi ( |
* Herbert Rudolphi (1676–84) | ||
| * Andreas Overbeck ( |
* Andreas Overbeck (1685–86) | ||
| * Andreas Rudeloff (1686–1701) | * Andreas Rudeloff (1686–1701) | ||
| * Johann Georg Werner ( |
* Johann Georg Werner (1702–11) | ||
| * Christian Heinrich Behm ( |
* Christian Heinrich Behm (1712–40) | ||
| * Anton August Osterreich ( |
* Anton August Osterreich (1740–45) | ||
| * Theodor Wilhelm Ritmeister ( |
* Theodor Wilhelm Ritmeister (1747–74) | ||
| * Johann Friedrich Häseler ( |
* Johann Friedrich Häseler (1774–97) | ||
| * Jakob Christian Weland (1798–1813) |
* Jakob Christian Weland (1798–1813) – the abbey was dissolved during this abbacy | ||
| * Theodor Christoph Grotian ( |
* Theodor Christoph Grotian (1814–29) | ||
| * Franz Heinrich Wilhelm Rägener ( |
* Franz Heinrich Wilhelm Rägener (1831–37) | ||
| * Theodor Wilhelm Heinrich Bank ( |
* Theodor Wilhelm Heinrich Bank (1840–43) | ||
| * Wilhelm Hille ( |
* Wilhelm Hille (1845–80) | ||
| * Karl Julius Franz Stausebach ( |
* Karl Julius Franz Stausebach (1881–92) | ||
| * Johann Karl Theodor Schütte (1900–1912) | * Johann Karl Theodor Schütte (1900–1912) | ||
| * ''position of abbot vacant (1912–1960)'' | * ''position of abbot vacant (1912–1960)'' | ||
| * |
* 1960–71: Christhard Mahrenholz – re-founder | ||
| * |
* 1971–89: Kurt Schmidt-Clausen | ||
| * |
* 1989–96: Ernst Henze | ||
| * 1996–2002: Hans-Christian Drömann | * 1996–2002: Hans-Christian Drömann | ||
| * 2002– : Eckhard Gorka | * 2002– : Eckhard Gorka | ||
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| Im Klostergut gab es 1825 eine Postwärterei mit einem Postwärter. Nach seinem Tod wurde die Postwärterei am 1. Oktober 1842 geschlossen. Vom 1. Oktober 1847 an bestand eine Postsammelstelle für die örtliche Korrespondenz. Die Postversorgung erfolgte über die durchfahrenden Postkutscheden zwischen Eschershausen und Stadtoldendorf. Zwischen 1846 und 1849 bestand wieder eine Postwärterei. | Im Klostergut gab es 1825 eine Postwärterei mit einem Postwärter. Nach seinem Tod wurde die Postwärterei am 1. Oktober 1842 geschlossen. Vom 1. Oktober 1847 an bestand eine Postsammelstelle für die örtliche Korrespondenz. Die Postversorgung erfolgte über die durchfahrenden Postkutscheden zwischen Eschershausen und Stadtoldendorf. Zwischen 1846 und 1849 bestand wieder eine Postwärterei. | ||
| Die erforderliche Ortsangabe auf den Briefen wurde zwischen 1830–1834 handschriftlich mit |
Die erforderliche Ortsangabe auf den Briefen wurde zwischen 1830–1834 handschriftlich mit "Amelungsborn" (mit g) angegeben. Ab März 1843 ersetzte ein Zweizeiler-Stempel "Amelunxborn/ Datum (Tag in Ziffern, Monat in Buchstaben" den handschriftlichen Vermerk auf den Briefen. Ob es ein Poststempel ist, kann bezweifelt werden. Dieser Stempel findet sich auch auf Wegegeldquittungen. | ||
| Von 1835 bis 1840 wurde auf den Briefen wieder handschriftlich |
Von 1835 bis 1840 wurde auf den Briefen wieder handschriftlich "Amelungsborn" vermerkt. Zwischen 1840 bis 1842 ist ein Einkreisstempel "Amelunxsborn" mit Datumstrich bekannt. Das Datum wurde wahrscheinlich nie ausgefüllt, der Abschlag ist meist unsauber. Ab 1843 wurde wieder handschriftlich der Ortsvermerk "Amelunxborn" (mit x) angebracht, teilweise erhielten die Sendungen zusätzlich noch den Poststempel von Eschershausen.--> | ||
| <!--==Literatur zur Postgeschichte== | <!--==Literatur zur Postgeschichte== | ||
| * Henry Bade: ''333 Jahre Braunschweigische Post, 1535 - 1867'', Karl Pfankuch & CO, Braunschweig, 1960. | * Henry Bade: ''333 Jahre Braunschweigische Post, 1535 - 1867'', Karl Pfankuch & CO, Braunschweig, 1960. | ||
| * Hans-Joachim Anderson: ''Die Bezeichnung der Poststempelformen'' Düsseldorf 1970, Poststempelgilde |
* Hans-Joachim Anderson: ''Die Bezeichnung der Poststempelformen'' Düsseldorf 1970, Poststempelgilde "Rhein-Donau e.V." | ||
| * Werner Steven: ''Inhaltsübersicht der postalisch relevanten Braunschweigischen Ciculare, Gesetze und Verordnungen von 1807 bis 1867'', Rundbrief Nr. 58, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Braunschweig und Hannover im Briefmarken-Club Hannover, April 2004 | * Werner Steven: ''Inhaltsübersicht der postalisch relevanten Braunschweigischen Ciculare, Gesetze und Verordnungen von 1807 bis 1867'', Rundbrief Nr. 58, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Braunschweig und Hannover im Briefmarken-Club Hannover, April 2004 | ||
| * Werner Steven: ''Verzeichnis der Postanstalten und deren Personal im Bereich des Herzogtums Braunschweig, |
* Werner Steven: ''Verzeichnis der Postanstalten und deren Personal im Bereich des Herzogtums Braunschweig, 1811–1916'', Gesellschaft für Deutsche Postgeschichte e.V. Bezirksgruppe Braunschweig/Hannover. Heft 13 der Postgeschichtliche Blätter, 1992--> | ||
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| *Ruhbach, Gerhard, and Schmidt-Clausen, Kurt, 1985: ''Kloster Amelungsborn |
*Ruhbach, Gerhard, and Schmidt-Clausen, Kurt, 1985: ''Kloster Amelungsborn 1135–1985''. Hanover. | ||
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Amelungsborn Abbey, also Amelunxborn Abbey (Kloster Amelungsborn), is a Lutheran monastery in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located near Negenborn and Stadtoldendorf, in the Landkreis of Holzminden in the Weserbergland. It was the second oldest Cistercian foundation in Lower Saxony, Germany, after Walkenried Abbey. It survived the Reformation by becoming Lutheran, and with Loccum Abbey, also previously Cistercian, is one of the only two Lutheran monasteries in Germany with an uninterrupted tradition. The abbey church, St. Mary's, is also the parish church of the abbey's former estate villages Negenborn and Holenberg.
Foundation
The site of the villa Amelungsborn to the west of the present Stadtoldendorf was originally part of the ancestral lands of the Counts of Northeim.
Siegfried IV, the last Count of Northeim-Boyneburg and Homburg gave the land at Amelungsborn for the foundation of a Cistercian monastery, which was officially settled by a community of monks from Altenkamp Abbey on 20 November 1135.
With the establishment of this monastery and of the nearby Burg Homburg, built at around the same time, it seems that Count Siegfried was aiming to secure a part of his possessions that lay distant from his ancestral seat in North Hessen.
No foundation charter has survived, although there is a confirmation dated 5 December 1129 by Pope Honorius II. Nevertheless, an interval of six years between foundation and settlement fits the general timescale of Cistercian foundations.
The abbey was dedicated in 1135 by Bernhard I, Bishop of Hildesheim. The first abbot of Amelungsborn, appointed in 1141, was Heinrich I, a half-brother of the founder, Count Siegfried IV.
Development and daughter houses
The new monastery prospered and was soon able to extend the settlements of the order. As early as 1138 a monk of Amelungsborn was appointed abbot of Mariental Abbey near Helmstedt. In 1145 Amelungsborn provided the entire community (12 monks and an abbot) for the foundation of Riddagshausen Abbey near Braunschweig, of which it was thus the mother house.
Amelungsborn was also the mother house of the rich and powerful Doberan Abbey (in the present Bad Doberan near Rostock), in 1171 and again in 1176, at the instigation of the missionary bishop Berno, once a monk of Amelungsborn, who in 1155 became Bishop of Mecklenburg and when in 1160 the seat of the bishopric was moved, the first Bishop of Schwerin.
Further foundations at one remove were at Isenhagen-Marienrode near Wittingen and Wahlshausen near Fuldatal, daughter houses of Riddagshausen, and Dargun Abbey and Pelplin Abbey, daughter houses of Doberan. Amelungsborn became the richest monastery of the Welf sphere of influence, and the one most closely connected with the German colonisation to the east. By about 1280 the community numbered 50 monks and 90 lay-brothers.
Even after the alienation of their Mecklenburg estates, principally round Satow and Dranse, in the 14th century, Amelungsborn Abbey remained an extensive landowner, thanks largely to the generosity of the Edelherren of Homburg, successors of the founder, and the Counts of Everstein, who gave many estates between the Weser and Leine, among them lands at Allersheim near Holzminden, Schnedinghausen near Moringen, Erzhausen, Bruchhof and Holtershausen near Greene, besides possessions in the towns of Einbeck, Höxter and Hameln, and forests near the abbey itself.
After the Reformation
During the first half of the 16th century Amelungsborn fell increasingly into the power of the Welf territorial princes. In 1549 the abbey was forced to cede the lucrative farm at Allersheim to Duke Henry the Younger of Brunswick.
In 1568 Duke Julius of Brunswick implemented the Reformation in his realm, and the abbot and community converted to Lutheranism. The first Lutheran abbot was Andreas Steinhauer (d. 1588), who founded the school for which the abbey was from this point on principally known.
In 1760 the abbey school was transferred to Holzminden by Duke Charles I of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel and merged with the town school, the predecessor of the present Campe Gymnasium.
Under the rule of Napoleon in 1806 Amelungsborn Abbey was dissolved, but by an anomaly the position of abbot remained. When in 1875 the school was taken over by the state and the educational duties of the abbey ended, the office of abbot remained as an honorary title for members of the senior Brunswick clergy
From 1912 the position was left vacant for political reasons. In 1941 the church was transferred to the Hanover State Church (Landeskirche Hannover). The church senate assumed the rights of the previous territorial lords and took over responsibility for the abbey.
World War II
In World War II the buildings were severely damaged, including the outer ring wall, on 8 April 1945, when the premises were heavily bombed by American troops in pursuit of fleeing SS units. The church sustained particularly heavy damage, and the south side of the nave and the east window of 1350 were totally destroyed. Restoration work took place from 1954 to 1959.
Revival
In 1960 Christhard Mahrenholz was appointed 54th abbot, assembled a community and founded a society of laymen, Familiaritas. The community, as at 2008, consists of the abbot and eight religious, while the lay brotherhood "Familiaritas" has about 30 members.
Abbots
- Heinrich I (1141–43)
- Everhelm (c. 1150–84)
- Johann I (1186)
- Hoiko (1196–1201)
- Walbert (1204/5)
- Konrad (1209)
- Gottschalk (1213–35)
- Dietrich (1236–45)
- Johann II (1246–51)
- Arnold (1254–69)
- Moritz (1270–91)
- Balduin (1293–1301)
- Bertram (1302–11)
- Gieseler (1317–22)
- Ludolf I (1326–29)
- Heinrich II (1334–37)
- Ludolf II (1339–53)
- Engelhard (1355–71)
- Johann (III) Maske (1377–78)
- Heinrich (III) Rikolf (1400–15)
- Reiner (1417–26)
- Herwig (1431–32)
- Johann IV (1433)
- Saner von Horn (1438–62)
- Johann (V) Alremann (1463–64)
- Heinrich (IV) von Horn (1465–77)
- Johann (VI) von Dassel (1477–83)
- Bernhard von Haselünne (1483–85)
- Werner von der Werder (1487–95)
- Gebhard Maske (1499–1510)
- Hermann Kannegießer (1516–31)
- Veit Teckermester (1533–53)
- Andreas Steinhauer (1555–88) – the first Lutheran abbot
- Vitus Buchius (1588–98)
- Anton Georgius (1598–1625)
- Theodor Berkelmann (1625–45)
- Statius Fabricius (1647–49)
- Hermann Topp(ius) (1655–75)
- Herbert Rudolphi (1676–84)
- Andreas Overbeck (1685–86)
- Andreas Rudeloff (1686–1701)
- Johann Georg Werner (1702–11)
- Christian Heinrich Behm (1712–40)
- Anton August Osterreich (1740–45)
- Theodor Wilhelm Ritmeister (1747–74)
- Johann Friedrich Häseler (1774–97)
- Jakob Christian Weland (1798–1813) – the abbey was dissolved during this abbacy
- Theodor Christoph Grotian (1814–29)
- Franz Heinrich Wilhelm Rägener (1831–37)
- Theodor Wilhelm Heinrich Bank (1840–43)
- Wilhelm Hille (1845–80)
- Karl Julius Franz Stausebach (1881–92)
- Johann Karl Theodor Schütte (1900–1912)
- position of abbot vacant (1912–1960)
- 1960–71: Christhard Mahrenholz – re-founder
- 1971–89: Kurt Schmidt-Clausen
- 1989–96: Ernst Henze
- 1996–2002: Hans-Christian Drömann
- 2002– : Eckhard Gorka
Notes
- formerly also sometimes Amelunxen
- meaning "the spring of Amelung", after a spring still visible today
- Heutger, N.C., Das Kloster Amelungsborn im Spiegel der zisterziensischen Ordensgeschichte, Hildesheim 1968, p.13.
- Große Baudenkmäler Heft 338 Kloster Amelungsborn, Verlag DONAU Druck 5. Auflage 1998, p. 2
- Altenkamp or Kamp Abbey, also the mother house of the nearby Walkenried Abbey and Michaelstein Abbey near Blankenburg, was the earliest Cistercian settlement in the entire region, a daughter house of Morimond and a granddaughter of Cîteaux, the Cistercian motherhouse founded in 1098
- Stadtoldendorf und seine Beziehungen zum Kloster Amelungsborn http://www.kloster-amelungsborn.de/vortrag_partisch.htm Archived 4 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine am 30 August 2006
- the authenticity of the document is disputed
- Riddagshausen is notable for the network of ponds constructed by the monks for the raising of fish, a landscape that is now a protected nature reserve, in which 11 of the original 28 ponds survive
- Gedenktafel zum 6. April 1945 in der Klosterkirche https://www.flickr.com/photos/37925259@N00/275200180/ am 17 September 2006
References
- Ruhbach, Gerhard, and Schmidt-Clausen, Kurt, 1985: Kloster Amelungsborn 1135–1985. Hanover.
Sources and external links
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