Georg Christian Bartels, Abt Riddagshausen: Predigt 1856 & Leichenpredigt 1858

You are bidding on one Small print (sermon) and two manuscripts (including funeral sermon and short biography) about the theologian georg Christian bartels (1781-1858), 1836 to 1858 Abbot of Riddagshausen.

In the literature, the year of Georg Christian Bartels' death is incorrectly given as 1868; see. but the death notice in the Frankfurter Journal on January 4th November 1858, p. 2: "Braunschweig, end of October. One of the most outstanding clerics in our country and champion of a free conception of Protesantism, the abbot of the Riddagshausen monastery, G. Chr. Bartels, died these days." The Wikipedia article about the Riddagshausen monastery also incorrectly states that Christian Bartels was abbot from 1858 and not until 1858. In fact, the position of abbot was vacant from 1858 to 1875 (cf. Johannes Beste: The Riddagshausen Monastery. A historical picture. Wolfenbüttel 1898, p. 54).

His father August Christian Bartels (1749-1826) had also been abbot of the Riddagshausen monastery.

1.) Pressure "Sermon at his fiftieth anniversary celebration on December 12th. Trinity Sundays 1856 in the monastery church in Riddagshausen held by Georg Christian Bartels, the abbot of this monastery."

Braunschweig, Eduard Krampe 1856.

Scope: 16 pages (19 x 12.5 cm); the sermon text begins on page 3.

Very rare! Only two copies are recorded in the KVK (Braunschweig City Library and Lower Saxony State Archives, Wolfenbüttel location).

Note:Georg Christian Bartels became a preacher at the Garrison Church in Wolfenbüttel in 1806.

2.) Handwritten funeral sermon, delivered by the theologian Georg Karl Philipp Hessenmüller (1803-1862), General Superintendent in Braunschweig.

Title:"Words at the grave of Abbot Bartels on the 23rd October 1858, spoken by Hessenmüller.

Scope:Title page + 6 pages of sermon (21 x 17 cm).

Apparently did not appear in print.

3.) Handwriting (two sheets written on both sides) in the format 20.7 x 17.3 cm.

The first sheet with a Short biography of Georg Christian Bartels (so it's on the 4th. Born in Braunschweig in December 1781 and died on December 20th. October 1858 ibid.); one on the back Short biography of his father August Christian Bartels.

The second sheet with an "Extracts from the files on the Cramer family scholarship, to which the descandents of the abbot and vice-president August Christian Bartels [...] are entitled."

Donated by citizen Andreas Cramer of Seesen, who died around 1600 without children. The descendants of his brother Christoph Cramer, also citizens of Seesen, are entitled. Georg Christian Bartels and his father are named among those entitled.

Condition: paper slightly stained; the manuscripts folded. bPlease also note the pictures!

Internal note: Abbot Bartels 23-10

About the father August Christian Bartels and the Riddagshausen monastery (source: wikipedia):

August Christian Bartels (* 9. December 1749 in Harderode; † 16. December 1826 in Wolfenbüttel) was a German Lutheran theologian and high church official in Braunschweig.

Life: Bartels was a pastor's son and studied theology in Halberstadt and Göttingen from 1769 to 1773, became a preacher at the Jacobikirche in Einbeck in December 1773 and, by election of the congregation, at the Martinikirche in Braunschweig in 1778, where he acquired a reputation as a pulpit speaker, but also had an extensive controversy with his colleague Johann Wilhelm Wolfgang Breithaupt, who advocated the personal existence of the devil and was unable to persuade Bartels to give in even with a writing published in 1788.

Duke Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand then appointed him court preacher and abbot of the Riddagshausen monastery in 1789 as the successor to the popular Abbot Jerusalem. Bartels also became the first spiritual councilor in the consistory of the Braunschweig regional church in Wolfenbüttel, director of the Riddagshausen preaching seminar, provost of the Kreuzkloster and the Aegidienkloster and a member of the prelate bench of the estates of the Duchy of Braunschweig, later of the estate committee and in 1818 vice president of the consistory.

He made sustained efforts to provide religious enlightenment and education for the Protestant clergy, particularly through the introduction of the synodal order (1801) and church and school visitation, worked to improve the school system and worked on the state constitution.

Bartels' eldest son was the physician Ernst Daniel August Bartels (1774–1838), his youngest son (1781–1868), like his father, became abbot of the Riddagshausen monastery and, like his opponent Breithaupt, superintendent of the Querum inspection and was also known as a preacher.

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Bartels published, among other things

On the value and effect of Jesus' moral teachings. An apology against the so-called only true system of the Christian religion. (2 parts, 1788/89).

FR A. Henke's sermons on all Sundays and festivals throughout the year. 1787–89, as co-editor.

The merits of the University of Helmstedt in promoting Christian freedom of thought in our fatherland. 1822.

as well as numerous sermons and contributions to various magazines.

Honors: In 1810 the University of Helmstedt awarded him a doctorate in theology.

On the occasion of his 50th anniversary on December 21st. In December 1823, the country's clergy founded the Bartels scholarship for theology students. Jacob Ludwig Römer wrote the song on the celebratory occasion of the Lord's official celebration... Abbot Bartels, December 21st, 1823. In 1824 a “memorial for the friends and admirers of Abbot and Vice President Bartels” by Ph. M. Bank.

A Bartels portrait by the painter Neumann was hung in Wolfenbüttel's main church.

The Riddagshausen monastery is a former Cistercian abbey in Braunschweig, between Nußberg and Buchhorst. Cistercian monks from Amelungsborn Abbey settled here in 1145. Shortly afterwards, the newly founded daughter monastery Marienzelle took on the name of the neighboring village of Riddagshausen. The founding of a monastery had been prepared since 1143/44 by Ludolf von Wenden, who was both Ministerial to Henry the Lion and Vogt of Braunschweig and Amelungsborn. Riddagshausen is now a district of Braunschweig.

Village of Riddagshausen: The place was first mentioned in 1146 as Ritdageshusen, since 1301 as Ridderhusen and only from 1605 as Riddagshausen. In 1146, Henry the Lion transferred the village of Ritdageshusen with all of its land and workforce as initial equipment to the monastery that was being founded. The place name shows that the settlement was founded two to three centuries earlier. The founder was obviously a Ricdagus or Riddagus; This first name was still here until the 12th. Century can be found. The ending -husen for a place name, typical of Saxon settlements, was only used in this area until the early 10th century. Century and was later replaced by endings like -roth (-rode) or, in the 12th century. Century -hagen replaced.

Riddagshausen has been a district of Braunschweig since 1934.

Cistercian monastery: The monastery has had papal confirmation and protection since 1147. Like Henry the Lion, Bishop Rudolf III also promoted. (1136–1149) von Halberstadt initiated the settlement of the Cistercians in his diocese. In 1206[2] work began to replace the monastery church with a new building. Already in the 13th century In the 19th century the Cistercians were economically independent. early 14th In the 19th century, the village of Neuhof, which forms today's town center, was built outside the monastery complex. In 1605 there were two large farms in Neuhof, eight farms and from 1683 also a manor. In 1822 Neuhof was united with the monastery domain to form a parish.

Riddagshausen monastery property and office: In addition to the deserted areas in Riddagshausen, there were monastery properties in numerous places. According to Gäbler, the monastery property grew quickly. The acquisition policy made use of “all means – donations, purchases, exchanges and church pressure were not missing”.

One hundred years after it was founded, the abbey owned around 100 hooves, and after three hundred years there were already 500 hooves. The property was widely scattered around Peine, Schöningen and in the cities of Braunschweig, Hildesheim and Magdeburg. However, the core area was close to Riddagshausen, Neuhof, Mascherode, Klein Schöppenstedt, Gliesmarode, Querum and Hondelage and later formed the main part of the Riddagshausen office. There were also the Bailiwick of Meerdorf with Meerdorf and Harvesse as well as Wobeck, Offleben and Unseburg. Because of the persistence of its owners, only Rautheim was able to maintain a certain degree of independence until the French occupation at the beginning of the 19th century. century retained. The monastery repeatedly had problems with its neighbors over grazing rights, rights in the forests or stone mining in the Nußberg.

The Riddagshausen office was initially primarily a district court or had the jurisdiction of this court, but was later also used as a territorial term. However, this office was lost during the French occupation in the “Rural Canton of Braunschweig in the East” in the Oker department.

In the new landscape regulations for the Duchy of Braunschweig from 1832, the Vechelde and Riddagshausen offices were merged into one constituency, subsequently on January 1st. In January 1833, the two offices and the city of Braunschweig were combined to form the Braunschweig District Directorate, the predecessor of the Braunschweig district.

Abbey church

History and architecture: The model for the Riddagshausen abbey church was the mother abbey of Cîteaux in Burgundy, where the order was founded. The architectural concept initially followed the binding principle of ascetic rigor. The richness of jewelry in other contemporary buildings was not copied. Only when the central nave began to be vaulted did the classical Gothic style become established in the architecture. As construction progressed, the idea of ​​a purist Cistercian church was increasingly deviated from. After a good 60 years of construction, the monastery church was consecrated in 1275. The gatehouse (in which the Cistercian Museum is now located) was already in use at the end of the 12th century. It was built in the 19th century, while the small chapel next door was completed shortly before the monastery church.

Highlights in church life in the following centuries were the visit of Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in 1451 and the granting of episcopal rights (e.g. wearing a miter and ring) to the Abbot of Riddagshausen by Pope Sixtus IV. Since 1492 there have been repeated destructions by the people of Braunschweig: During their sieges of the city of Braunschweig, the Guelph dukes preferred to set up their camp in Riddagshausen, thus provoking the people of Braunschweig. The Reformation began in 1542 and was completed in 1568.

In 1690, a seminary for preachers was founded in the monastery under Abbot Johann Lucas Pestorf on the instructions of Dukes Anton Ulrich and Rudolf August as Seminarium Ministrorum Ecclesiae.[7] It was the first and oldest of its kind, intended to “improve the practical-theological qualities of aspiring preachers.” With the secularization of the Riddagshausen monastery in 1809 during the Napoleonic occupation, the seminary was closed. It was not until 1837 that it was reopened, this time in the ducal town of Wolfenbüttel with the seat of the ducal consistory. A monastery library was attached to the seminary.

From 1856 to 1883 the church was renovated by district architect Ernst Wiehe, and from 1962 to 1975 there were further repairs and repainting. From the early complex, the church (1275), the infirmary chapel (1305), a piece of the monastery wall, the entrance to the monastery and the Romanesque north gate building (1147) with the gate chapel and the gatekeeper's cell have been preserved. The women's chapel from 1275 was intended for the worship of strangers and women.

abbots of the monastery

I. Robert (1145 to 3. June 1150)[12]

II. Conrad I (1150–1164)

III. Reiner I (1164–1168)

IV. Siegebodo (from 1168–118)

V. Amelung I (118th–1187)

VI. Bertram (1187–1198)

vii Wilbernus (1198–1202)

VIII. Amelung II (1202–1208)

IX. Baldwin I (1208–1216)

X. Conrad II. (1216–1224)

XI. Arnold (1224–1247)

XII. Conrad III (1247–1261)

XIII. John I (1261–1264)

XIV. Ludolf (1264–1278)

XV. Hermann I (1278–1288)

XVI. Conrad IV (1288–1291)[13]

XVIII. Otto (1291–1303)

XVIII. Reiner II (1303–1311)

XIX. John II (1311–1321)

XX Herwig (1321–1332)

XXI. Dietrich I (1332–1343)

XXII. Frederick (1343–1347)

XXIII. John III (1347–1348)

XXIV. Eggeling (1348–1366)

XXV. Dietrich II (1366–1372)

XXVI. Herman II (1372–1392)

XXVII. Henry I (1392–1407)

XXVIII. Burkard I (1407–1420)

XXIX. Herman III (1420–1435)

XXX. Henry II (1435–1445)

XXXI. Baldwin II (1445–1451)

XXXII. John IV (1451–1454)

XXXIII. John V (1454–1456)

XXXIV. Matthias (1456–1473)

XXXV. Ebert (1473–1496)

XXXVI. Burkard II (1496–1503)

XXXVII. Herman IV (1503–1531)

XXXVIII. John VI (1531–1535)

XXXIX. Lambertus von Balven (1535 to 6. November 1553)

XL. Jodocus Oppermann (1553 to 31. October 1557)

XLI. Johannes Lorber (19. November 1557 to 23. October 1586)

XLII. Petrus Wiendruwe (30. November 1586 to 24. October 1614)

XLIII. Heinrich Scheele (9. January 1615 to 14. October 1622)

Reiner Schrader (from 1623)

Peter Tuckermann (from 1625)

Joachim Lütkemann (from 1651 or 1653)

Christoph Specht (from 1655)

Brandanus Daetrius (from 1662)

Justus Cellarius (from 1688)

Johann Lucas Pestorf (from 1689)

Christian Specht (from 1693)

Gottlieb Treuer (from 1706)

Philipp Ludwig Dreyßigmark (from 1730)

Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Jerusalem (from 1752)

August Christian Bartels (1789–1826)

Georg Bartels (from 1858) -- CORRECT IS: 1836-1858!!!

Heinrich Thiele (from 1876)

Carl Rohde (from 1891)