Roda Monastery
The Monastery Roda was a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Stadtroda ( Thuringia ).
It was founded between 1228 and 1247 as the house monastery of the Lobdeburgers and also served them as a burial place. After the introduction of the Reformation in 1534 it was abolished.
The monastery church was built in the Gothic style in the middle of the 13th century. It bears clear stylistic features of the reforms of Hirsau and Maulbronn . Since the destruction in the Thirty Years War in 1638, the church fell into ruin. Today the red sandstone church is one of the largest monastery ruins in Thuringia.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments Thuringia . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-422-03095-6 .
- Ernst Löbe, The Cistercian nunnery in Roda , in: Communications from the Association for History and Antiquity to Kahla and Roda 2 (1879), 20–94
Web links
Commons : Roda Monastery - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- Architectural monuments in Altenburg: monastery church in Roda
- History and description of the ruin on pages 521 + 522–523 + 524 (pdf pages 26–27): Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1860, issue 4
- Drawings on sheet 57 (pdf page 60): Zeitschrift für Bauwesen 1860, Atlas
Coordinates: 50 ° 51 ′ 40 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 22 ″ E