Chełmno Women's Monastery
The women's monastery Chełmno (also: Kulm monastery ) was a monastery first of the Cistercian women from 1266 to 1821 , from the 15th century on the Benedictine women , in Chełmno , diocese Pelplin , Poland .
history
Friedrich von Hausen , Bishop of Kulm , and the regional master of the Teutonic Order in Prussia, Ludwig von Baldersheim, founded the privately donated Cistercian convent Kulm in 1266, which was settled with nuns from Himmelspforten monastery . Between 1429 and 1483 it passed into the hands of the Benedictine nuns, whose most important abbess Magdalena Mortęska (1554–1631) was. The Benedictine monastery existed until 1821. Later it was repopulated by Vincentian nuns who are still at the site today. The monastery church of St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist belongs to the brick Gothic style .
literature
- Jerzy Domasłowski: Kościół i dawny klasztor cysterek w Chełmnie . Warsaw 1983 (“The Church and the Former Cistercian Convent in Kulm”).
- Krzysztof Mania: The monastery in Chełmno. Provincial House of the Sisters of Mercy . Pelplin 2007.
- Ruth Bartal: 'Where has your beloved gone?' The staging of the 'Quaerere Deum' on the murals of the Cistercian convent at Chełmno. In: Word and Image 16, 2000, pp. 270-289.
Manual literature
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 1532 (Kulm).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 1050.
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 57.9 ″ N , 18 ° 25 ′ 5 ″ E