Augustinian monastery Quedlinburg

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The Augustinian monastery was a settlement of the Augustinian hermits in Quedlinburg from the 13th to the 16th century.

location

The monastery was located in the new town by the city wall. Today the street (Behind the) Augustinern runs along there. The monastery complex extended, among other things, over the later plots Augustinern 87 a , 88 and Weberstrasse 43 . So far, no structural remains are known, there may still be small fragments of walls or cellar vaults in the properties.

history

The exact date of foundation is not known, it is assumed around the year 1295. The first monks came from the Himmelpforten monastery in the Harz Mountains. From 1300 a document from the Pope has been received in which he rejects the complaint of the Franciscan monastery against the construction of the new monastery because of the alleged lack of space.

Only a few documents and messages have survived from the following period. In 1317, an adjacent property on Steinstrasse was acquired. In 1371 a new larger building was inaugurated. In 1499 the Augustinian monastery with the Wiperti monastery and the St. Johannis hospital lent money to the city of Quedlinburg, and in 1505 to the Franciscan monastery in the old town of Magdeburg. This suggests a certain economic prosperity. The monastery had built a larger library over time.

During the riots in Quedlinburg in 1523, the last remaining monks were expelled, but apparently returned afterwards and were expelled again in 1525 during the Peasants' War.

After that there was no more news about a possible continued existence, in 1542 their jewels were sold.

In 1615 the abbess Dorothea set up a mint there. In the 18th century at the latest, the area was built on with houses, most of which have been preserved.

Augustinian monks in Quedlinburg

  • Jordanus von Quedlinburg (around 1300–1378 / 80), entered the Augustinian Hermit Order, then became a well-known author
  • Thomas Müntzer (1489 / 90–1525), joined the Augustinian Hermit Order, and then became the leader of the peasant uprising

literature

  • Thomas Wozniak : Quedlinburg in the 14th and 16th centuries - a social topographical comparison (= Hall contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and early modern times. Vol. 11). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-05-006049-1 . Pp. 311–313 , with further literature p. 311 note 7
  • Adalbero Kunzelmann : History of the German Augustinian Hermits. Part five. The Saxon-Thuringian province and the Saxon Reform Congregation until the fall of the. Würzburg 1974. pp. 117-120.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Adalbero Kunzelmann: History of the German Augustinian Hermits. First part. The thirteenth century. Würzburg 1969. pp. 122-124
  2. ↑ Eduard Jacobs : Augustinian hermits in Quedlinburg 1300. In: Journal of the Heart Association for history and antiquity. 15th year, 1882. pp. 213–215 , with Latin document text
  3. ^ Gottfried Christian Voigt : History of the Quedlinburg Abbey. Second volume. Leipzig 1787. pp. 179f. , with translated German document text
  4. ↑ Thomas Wozniak: Quedlinburg in the 14th and 16th centuries - a social topographical comparison (= Halle contributions to the history of the Middle Ages and the early modern times. Vol. 11). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 2013. pp. 164–166, details about this time in Quedlinburg