Carmelite Monastery Pößneck
The Monastery of the Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel was a convent of the Carmelites in Pößneck in Thuringia from 1315 to 1525.
history
The monastery was founded in 1315 by the Counts of Schwarzburg. It was the only monastery in the city. A water pipe from the Mönchsquelle in Haintal to the city was made available for use in 1428 for a fee from the city.
In 1525 the prior Heinrich Kaiser left the monastery with nine monks in exchange for an annual pension from the city, two monks kept their vows.
Structures and economy
The monastery was run by a prior . Like other Carmelite monasteries, it was particularly dedicated to spiritual training. Some incunabula have been preserved from the library.
The monastery lived from foundations and donations from citizens and nobles and had little land, from forests and other things. A date was mentioned in Jena in 1382.
Bilke
The monastery church was built around 1400 as a simple hall with a high pitched roof.
After the monastery was dissolved, it was used as a hop and grain store. In one room a table was set up for the game of bilke (similar to billiards), hence the later name Bilke . The church was rebuilt in 1870 and a girls' school was set up there the following year. After that it was used as a museum, various schools, wine wholesalers and other things. Since 2006, Bilke has been the seat of the Pößneck city library.
literature
- Hans Walter Enkelmann: Pößneck . 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 9783402129548 . Pp. 596-604.
Individual evidence
- ^ Church archive Pößneck
- ^ Illustration from 1800 in Christel Ziermann, Hans Walter Enkelmann: Pössneck. Tell old pictures. Sutton, Erfurt 2005. p. 10
- ↑ History of Bilke
- ↑ Bilke and Bilkenkeller