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Amelungsborn Abbey, also Amelunxborn Abbey (''Kloster Amelungsborn'')〔formerly also sometimes Amelunxen〕 near Negenborn and Stadtoldendorf, in the ''Landkreis'' of Holzminden in the Weserbergland, 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''〔meaning "the spring of Amelung", after a spring still visible today〕 to the west of the present Stadtoldendorf was originally part of the ancestral lands of the Counts of Northeim.〔Heutger, N.C., Das Kloster Amelungsborn im Spiegel der zisterziensischen Ordensgeschichte, Hildesheim 1968, p.13.〕 Siegfried IV, the last Count of Northeim-Boyneburg and Homburg〔Große Baudenkmäler Heft 338 Kloster Amelungsborn, Verlag DONAU Druck 5. Auflage 1998, p. 2〕 gave the land at Amelungsborn for the foundation of a Cistercian monastery, which was officially settled by a community of monks from Altenkamp Abbey〔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〕 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.〔Stadtoldendorf und seine Beziehungen zum Kloster Amelungsborn http://www.kloster-amelungsborn.de/vortrag_partisch.htm am 30 August 2006〕 No foundation charter has survived, although there is a confirmation dated 5 December 1129 by Pope Honorius II.〔the authenticity of the document is disputed〕 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amelungsborn Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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