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St. Marien Monastery Church Osterholz

St. Marien Monastery Church Osterholz

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St. Marien Monastery Church Osterholz

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Location: Osterholz-Scharmbeck, Osterholz, Lower Saxony, Germany

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Jenny

February 26, 2022

The monastery church of St. Marien is located in the district of Osterholz and was built in the 12th century as a Romanesque-style basilica. Together with the parish hall built in 1562, it serves our parish of St. Marien as a church and meeting place.

The church was originally a three-aisled, late Romanesque brick basilica with a two-tower westwork. It was donated by Bishop Siegfried of Bremen in 1182 and built and completed under his successor Hartwig II. The church was consecrated in 1196 by Archbishop Thidericus von Lübeck, since Hartwig II was prevented from doing so by preparing for a crusade.
After a fire in 1345, the monastery church was rebuilt and heavily modified to create more space. Moorkommissar Findorff also changed the church seriously again.

Even if in the past many generations used the church space and repeatedly changed it structurally, the original spatial concept of the church, which belonged to the monastery at the time, is still clearly visible today. Unfortunately nothing has survived from the "Closter Our Lewen Frouwen tho Osterholte, Ordens Sancti Benedicti Bremen Stiffts". Today the kindergarten building of the community stands on its foundations. An example of lived ecumenism is the introduction of the Reformation in Osterholz. Since the 30s of the 16th century, Roman Catholic nuns and Evangelical Lutheran canonesses harmoniously next to and with each other in the monastery. In 1648, at the end of the Thirty Years' War, the monastery was dissolved. All monastery estates fell to the Swedish crown. The canonesses, however, were allowed to stay until 1692. For a short time, Osterholz was even parished to Scharmbeck. Since 1696, however, the community has been independent again.

It was not until the Loccum Agreements of 1965 that the community regained ownership of their church and community center. In the years that followed, the major renovation work that helped secure the church's existence finally began.

Source: stmarienohz.de/ueber-uns/klosterkirche

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St. Marien Monastery Church Osterholz

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2. Picnic Area with Village View – Student Market Café loop from Osterholz

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