Ziesar Monastery
| Cistercian monastery Ziesar | |
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 West wing of the preserved monastery building |
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| location | Ziesar |
| Lies in the diocese | Brandenburg |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 16 '0.8 " N , 12 ° 17' 14.2" E |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| Cistercian since | 1341 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
around 1540 |
In the Brandenburg episcopal town of Ziesar (Secezere) there were two monasteries in the Middle Ages : a Franciscan monastery in the 13th century and a Cistercian monastery from the 14th century until the Reformation . The monastery buildings that have been preserved are listed as architectural monuments .
Franciscan
As early as 1226, the year Franz von Assisi died , there are records of brothers of the Franciscan order founded in 1210 in the city of Ziesar, a residence of the Brandenburg bishop . The Brandenburg bishop Gernand supported the settlement. The Ziesar pastor Helias ( magister Helyas, plebanus de Secezere , died 1237), a learned priest according to his title “Magister” , founded the convent in Ziesar for the order . The Franciscan monastery only existed for a few decades because there had been civil unrest in Ziesar. As early as 1250 - 1237 at the earliest, 1258 at the latest - the mendicant monks relocated to the much larger old town of Brandenburg , where they subsequently built the monastery and church of St. Johannis near the Havel . Pastor Helias apparently had close contacts with the Franciscans, because they brought his bones to Brandenburg and buried them, dressed in a Franciscan habit, in their new monastery church.
Cistercian women
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The Brandenburg Bishop Ludwig Schenk von Neindorf made Ziesar Castle a permanent residence and administrative seat during his tenure from 1327 to 1347 . During his term of office there were evidence of Cistercian women in the city from 1331 at the latest. Furthermore, the Augustinian order was allowed to operate a datei . In 1341 the bishop founded a monastery for the Cistercian women, which was dedicated to St. Mary . The monastery held the church patronage for the parish church in Ziesar and also the churches in the villages of Bücknitz , Köbernitz , Rottstock and Göhlsdorf . The extent of the founding ownership is not known. Later possessions are also only sporadically handed down, as the monastery archive was lost. In 1415 the monastery gave away a farm in the village of Radewege to the cathedral chapter in Brandenburg. In 1427, the Ziesar monastery transferred the church patronage in Göhlsdorf to the Lehnin monastery . In 1541 the monastery received the church tithe from a total of fourteen places. According to an inventory, the income this year was 53 guilders in cash and 42 bison grain. A vineyard in Ziesar, which among other things was used for the production of mass wine , was worked on. Intensive horticulture continued . The monastery had free float in Teltow, among other places .
Around 1540 the nunnery was dissolved as a result of the Reformation and initially continued as a women's monastery . The former nuns were guaranteed a lifelong right of residence. In 1562 the monastery was also dissolved. At this point in time six former nuns were still alive and their supplies remained secure.
Church and monastery
The monastery church was the Ziesar town church St. Crucis . This is a Romanesque stone church from the early 13th century. The church is connected to the adjoining monastic residential buildings to the west via a gatehouse. At the time of the monastery there was a transition. The nuns had direct access to the west gallery , from where they followed the services . St. Crucis never lost the character of the town church. The monastery held the church patronage during its existence.
The surviving residential building is a two-wing, two-story field stone and brick building . The north wing is structurally connected to the church. The facade to the east and north is unplastered, the south facing the courtyard with plaster painted yellow. Several rectangular windows of different sizes were incorporated. Older segment arch windows were blocked. The eastern pediment is a Gothic one . The doors to the courtyard are segmented and rounded . The west wing facing the courtyard is also plastered. Overall, the facade is more richly decorated than that of the north wing. There are decorative roofs over doors and windows, which are completely missing in the north wing. The rectangular windows are more uniform in size. The south pediment is a rich Renaissance pediment . The building is still used as a residential building.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Ursula Creutz: History of the former monasteries in the Diocese of Berlin in individual representations. Leipzig 1995, ISBN 3-89543-087-0 , p. 191.
- ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Werl 1999, p. 49.
- ↑ a b c panel on Stadtkirche St. Crucis Ziesar , Timeline: from 1200 to 1817 .
- ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History: Chronological outline of the history of the Saxon Franciscan provinces from their beginnings to the present. Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, Werl 1999, ISBN 3-87163-240-6 , p. 49.
- ^ Art. Brandenburg / Havel. Franciscan. In: Heinz-Dieter Heimann et al. (Ed.): Brandenburg monastery book. Handbook of the monasteries, pens and commander by the mid-16th century. Vol. I, ISBN 978-3-937233-26-0 , pp. 278-288, here p. 278.
- ↑ a b Roland Fröhlich: The Cistercians and their vineyards in Brandenburg . Lukas Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86732-070-2 , p. 182.
- ↑ a b Roland Fröhlich: The Cistercians and their vineyards in Brandenburg . Lukas Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86732-070-2 , p. 184.
- ^ Roland Fröhlich: The Cistercians and their vineyards in Brandenburg . Lukas Verlag, ISBN 978-3-86732-070-2 , p. 183.
- ↑ Dieter Pötschke (Ed.): History and Law of the Cistercians. Lukas Verlag, ISBN 3-931836-05-3 , p. 47.
- ↑ Dieter Pötschke (Ed.): History and Law of the Cistercians. Lukas Verlag, ISBN 3-931836-05-3 , p. 43.