Listed residential building in Hagen-Hohenlimburg (Elsey), Im Stift 35. Built in 1789 in the late rococo style. The quarry stone wall in front of the house with classical pillars crowned by vases. Former curia house of the Elsey Monastery, abbess Amalie Dorothea Elisabeth von dem Bottlenberg's residence. Kessel (term of office 1776–1797).
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
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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)
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