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{{Short description|Former Cistercian monastery in Germany}}
'''Hardehausen Abbey''' (''Kloster Hardehausen'') is a former [[Cistercian]] monastery located near [[Warburg]] in the [[Höxter (district)|district of Höxter]] in the east of [[North Rhine-Westphalia]], [[Germany]].
[[Image:Harde00102.jpg|thumb|Hardehausen Abbey]]

==History==
In 1009 ''Herswithehusen'' became the property of [[Meinwerk]], [[bishop of Paderborn]]. The abbey was founded on {{start date and age|1140|05|28|df=y|p=y}}, by bishop [[Bernhard I von Oesede|Bernhard I of Paderborn]] as a daughter house of [[Kamp Abbey]] on the Lower [[Rhine]]. Construction was completed with the dedication of the church in {{start date and age|1165|p=y}}.

Between 1185 and 1243 three daughter houses were founded from Hardehausen: in 1185, [[Marienfeld Abbey (Germany)|Marienfeld Abbey]] in [[Münsterland]]; in 1196, [[Bredelar Abbey]] near [[Marsberg]]; and in 1243, [[Scharnebeck Abbey]] in Marienfliess near [[Lüneburg]]. Also, the nunnery at [[Wilhelmhausen Abbey|Wilhelmshausen]] (Walshausen) which Hardehausen had acquired in 1293 and subsequently emptied, was re-established in 1320 with a new community of monks.

During the [[Thirty Years' War]] the abbey was looted and destroyed. During its reconstruction in the years 1680 to {{start date and age|1750|p=y}} it received its present form.

In 1803 the abbey was [[German mediatisation|secularised]], and the monks expelled. The contents were sold or auctioned, and the church was demolished in 1812. The estates were rented out as state property.

Hardehausen was briefly re-founded as a Cistercian monastery in 1927, but the new community was brought to an end by an order of dissolution issued by the [[National Socialist]] government in 1938, when the buildings and grounds were sold to the [[Henschel]] company from [[Kassel]], from whom they were acquired by the ''Verein für katholische Arbeiterkolonien'' ("Union for Catholic Workers' Colonies"). In 1944 the ''[[Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt]]'' (Napola) [[Bensberg]] transferred to Hardehausen. At this period an external work party from [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], consisting of 30 prisoners, were deployed for forced labour in Hardehausen.<ref>on the external camp at the Napola in Bensberg und Hardehausen see Dieter Zühlke, Jan Erik Schulte, ''Vom Rheinland nach Westfalen: KZ-Außenlager bei der „Nationalpolitischen Erziehungsanstalt“ in Bensberg und Hardehausen'', in: Jan Erik Schulte (ed.), ''Konzentrationslager im Rheinland und in Westfalen 1933–1945. Zentrale Steuerung und regionale Initiative'', Schöningh, Paderborn 2005, {{ISBN|3-506-71743-X}}, pp. 113–130, and on Hardehausen especially pp. 122–128.</ref>

Since 1945 the former monastery has been used for the educational activities of the present [[Archdiocese of Paderborn]]. Here are located the ''Jugendhaus Hardehausen'' (established 1945) and also the ''Landvolkshochschule Anton Heinen'' (established 1949, to provide adult education for the entire rural district). In 1970 all the buildings on the site were altered and extended for their educational functions.

==Notes==
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==References==
* Kuhne, W., 1978: ''Die Gründung des Klosters Hardehausen durch Bischof Bernhard I.'' Schöningh, München et al. {{ISBN|3-506-73701-5}}

==Sources and external links==
* [http://www.landvolkshochschule-hardehausen.de Landvolkshochschule ''Anton Heinen'' Hardehausen] {{in lang|de}}
* [http://www.jugendhaus-hardehausen.de/ Jugendhaus Hardehausen] {{in lang|de}}
* [https://www.lwl.org/geodatenkultur/objekt/10039437 Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe: Klosteranlage Hardehausen] {{in lang|de}}

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[[Category:Cistercian monasteries in Germany]]
[[Category:Monasteries in North Rhine-Westphalia]]
[[Category:1140s establishments in the Holy Roman Empire]]
[[Category:1140 establishments in Europe]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Höxter (district)]]

Hardehausen Abbey - Revision history

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