Annenkloster Perleberg

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The monastery of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel was a convent of the Carmelites in Perleberg in the northern Brandenburg from 1441 to 1540-41.

location

The monastery was located at St. Anne's Church in the eastern part of the medieval town between two arms of the Stepenitz. Small remains of the convent buildings are still present.

history

The monastery was founded in 1441 by the Provincial of the Order of the Carmelite Province of Saxony on land made available by the city; Elector Friedrich II of Brandenburg gave his approval. There are only two documents from 1480 about the further history.

In the Visitation of the city in 1542, only two old monks in the monastery lived, whose livelihood of the city should continue to be ensured.

Structures

The monastery was run by a prior . Furthermore, a reading master was named as in other monasteries of the order. A brotherhood for lay people belonged to the monastery, which also included a municipal caland.

The monastery was given endowments and probably also donations. It had little land holdings, including a grove and at least one mill.

Further use

The area was then used as a poor house, and at the beginning of the 18th century it was made available to the garrison as a warehouse. On an engraving from 1726, the church and the enclosure with the cloister can still be seen.

literature

  • Harm Klueting: Perleberg . In: Edeltraut Klueting, Stephan Panzer, Andreas H. Scholten (Ed.): Monasticon Carmelitanum. Monasteries of the Carmelite Order (O.Carm.) In Germany from the beginning to the present. Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2012, ISBN 978-3-402-12954-8 . Pp. 588-595
  • Uwe Czubatynski, Michael Höhle: Perleberg Karmeliter. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann , Klaus Neitmann , Winfried Schich u. a. (Ed.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, monasteries and the coming up to the middle of the 16th century (= Brandenburg historical studies, volume 14). Volume 2. Be.bra-Wissenschaft-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 . Pp. 953-957.
  • Gottfried Wentz : The Carmelite monastery in Perleberg. In: Gottfried Wentz: The Diocese of Havelberg . (= Germania sacra . The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg. Volume 2). Berlin and Leipzig 1933. pp. 366–368. ( Digitized version )

Coordinates: 53 ° 4 ′ 37.7 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 49.1 ″  E