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Kloster Helmarshausen

Kassel, Stadtkreis Kassel, Hessen, Germany – *No GPS coordinates

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Kloster Helmarshausen was a Benedictine monastery situated in the small town of Helmarshausen, now part of Bad Karlshafen in Hesse, Germany.
The abbey was founded here near the River Diemel in 997 by the nobles Eckehard and Mathilde.
The abbey is the home of an especially skilled scriptorium and goldsmith's workshop, producing illuminated books and manuscripts, liturgical and ornamental pieces in gold for church use, and jewellery. This was set up by Roger of Helmarshausen, a highly skilled goldsmith and artist-monk, who moved to Helmarshausen from Stavelot Abbey in 1107. He is sometimes considered to be the author of the medieval treatise on art and crafts, De Diversis Artibus.
The scriptorium at Kloster Helmarshausen also produced the Gospels of Henry the Lion, an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels written between about 1176 and 1188 by the monk Herimann, commissioned by Duke Henry the Lion for Brunswick Cathedral.
The monastery was dissolved during the Reformation and only a few buildings remain today



Kloster Helmarshausen was a Benedictine monastery situated in the small town of Helmarshausen, now part of Bad Karlshafen in Hesse, Germany.
The abbey was founded here near the River Diemel in 997 by the nobles Eckehard and Mathilde.
The abbey is the home of an especially skilled scriptorium and goldsmith's workshop, producing illuminated books and manuscripts, liturgical and ornamental pieces in gold for church use, and jewellery. This was set up by Roger of Helmarshausen, a highly skilled goldsmith and artist-monk, who moved to Helmarshausen from Stavelot Abbey in 1107. He is sometimes considered to be the author of the medieval treatise on art and crafts, De Diversis Artibus.
The scriptorium at Kloster Helmarshausen also produced the Gospels of Henry the Lion, an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels written between about 1176 and 1188 by the monk Herimann, commissioned by Duke Henry the Lion for Brunswick Cathedral.
The monastery was dissolved during the Reformation and only a few buildings remain today



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  • Added: 1 Sep 2012
  • Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2463880