Dietkirchen
Community ID: 
 
1341
 
Town: 
 
Bonn
 
Diocese: 
 
Cologne
 
Dedication: 
 
S. Peter
 
Date Founded: 
 
1015 or earlier
 
Religious Order: 
 
Benedictine/ possibly a collegiate church/ in the fourteenth century a member of the Eremetical Order of S. Augustine
 
Rule: 
 
Benedictine by 1166/ Augustinian by the beginning of the fourteenth century
 
Foundation Information: 
 

The convent was founded before 1015 as a Benedictine nunnery or possibly as a collegiate church. In 1166, the house was reformed by Archbishop Reinald of Dassel, who ordered the imposition of the Benedictine rule. Reinald's dispositions were confirmed in 1174 by his successor, Phillip of Heinsberg, and again between 1174 and 1177 by the anti-Pope Calixtus III. The convent later became a women's chapter for women of the nobility.

 
Dependent Communities: 
 

Circa 1313 some of the nuns moved to Cologne and founded S. Agatha (S. Agatha).

 
Other Ecclesiastical Relations: 
 

Letters from Elisabeth of Schönau: [Letter to the abbess of Dietkirchen, undated (1)]; [Letter to the abbess of Dietkirchen, undated (2)].

 
Manuscript Sources: 
 

The University library in Bonn possesses a manuscript, beginning casus et pensiones camerariae, written in 1393, from the community, #S 1248.

 
Published Primary Sources: 
 

Codex diplomaticus rheno-mosellanus, ed. Wilhelm A. Guenther (Coblenz: B. Heriot, 1822-1826), Vol. 1, 383, no. 181.

 
Secondary Sources: 
 

NULL Handschriftenerbe des Deutschen Mittelalters, vol. 1, p. 165.
Lacomblet, Theodor J., ed. Archiv fur die Geschichte des Niederrheins, 7 vols. (Dusseldorf, 1831-1869), vol. 2, 303.

 
Admin. Notes: 
 

Further research necessary

 
Contributors: 
 
June Mecham
 
Date Started: 
 
1015
 
Length: 
 
1153