Falkenhagen Monastery

Falkenhagen Abbey is a former Cistercian convent at the foot of the Köterberg in the Falkenhagen district of Lügde in the former state of Lippe.

There were various points of contention between the Counts of Schwalenberg and the Bishopric of Paderborn at the beginning of the 13th century. Before 1209, for example, the Schwalenbergs had claimed the bailiwicks over the monasteries of Gehrden and Willebadessen, which they also tried to enforce by force. When Count Adolf I of Schwalenberg and Waldeck tried to gain control of the town of Korbach by building a town castle and demanded the oath of feudal oath from the citizens, Bishop Wilbrand of Paderborn held a meeting in Korbach, at which he declared the Waldeck fiefs to be confiscated, released the citizens from the feudal oath and committed them to himself as sovereign with an oath of allegiance. On the way back, Wilbrand was attacked by Adolf I and insulted by an unspecified "iniuria". However, the bishop escaped the attack and imposed a church ban on the count. Adolf's brother Count Volkwin IV of Schwalenberg and Waldeck was also involved in the feud that now unfolded. During the feud, which continued in winter, the ancestral castle of the Schwalenbergs, the Oldenburg, was also destroyed. During Holy Week 1227, "on the advice of sensible men", the counts asked the bishop barefoot for forgiveness, and each of the two vowed to found a monastery as atonement. On 14 April 1227, a document was drawn up in which the Schwalenbergs renounced, among other conditions, the bailiwicks over Gehrden and Willebadessen and their claims as well as the construction of castles in the area around Korbach. As early as 1228, Count Adolf I founded the Marienthal Monastery in Netze.

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