St. Georg Monastery (Leipzig)

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The St. Georg Monastery in Leipzig is a former Cistercian monastery that was built before 1230 and existed until 1541.

history

Not much is known about the beginnings of the Cistercian convent of St. Georg in Leipzig . The community of nuns in Hohenlohe (southwest of Leipzig, today zu Kitzen ) must have originated before 1230, because a document of the Wettin Margrave of Meißen Heinrich the Illustrious (1221–1288) reports on the relocation of the monastery to Leipzig and that the knight Otto von Lichtenhagen had previously given the nuns an allod in Prittitz . From the 1240s onwards, the spiritual community based in Leipzig, named after St. George (Leipzig Georgennonnenkloster), had a closer relationship with the Meissen margraves , who now promoted the women's monastery in economic terms.

The nuns settled in front of the city wall in Petersvorstadt, in the area between today's Harkort and Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse. The margrave gave the monastery 36 courtyards east of the monastery in the area of ​​today's Nonnenmühlgasse, the mill in Lusitz on today's Schleußiger Weg and fish ponds. In 1248 a new mill was built for the monastery on the Pleiße (in the area of ​​Harkortstraße, directly south of today's Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße), the Nonnenmühle .

Relations between the community and the papacy can also be seen: The community, which was first designated as a Cistercian monastery in 1241 and incorporated into the Cistercian order in 1244, received two privileges from Pope Gregory X (1271–1276) in 1274 , one of which was falsified into the Cistercians , which were customary in this way to receive due discounts. But the Georgenkloster was still subordinate to the Merseburg bishop. Around 1480 the Cistercian nuns became Benedictine nuns . After the Reformation , the nuns left Leipzig in 1541. In 1543 the city council bought the buildings and had them demolished in 1545. The nun mill existed until 1890, when it was demolished and the Karl-Tauchnitz bridge built in its place.

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