Carmelite Monastery of Querfurt

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Matthäus Merian : View of Querfurt (1650), detail: Northern part with the "Closter" (number 3)

The Carmelite Monastery (also Karmeliterkloster , Karmel ) was a monastery of the Order of the Carmelites in Querfurt in what is now Saxony-Anhalt from the 14th to the 16th century.

location

The monastery was located in the former Neuendorf settlement outside the inner city wall and inside the outer city wall between the Döcklitzer and Steinweger Tor. Today the Philipp Müller School is located there .

history

In 1358 the Benedictine monastery Marienzell acquired a courtyard on this site shortly after the outer city wall was completed. This was initially used as the cloister of the monastery.

It is not known when a Carmelite monastery was established here; it was first mentioned as existing in 1401. The monastery maintained a hospital on the river bank.

It was probably dissolved in the 1550s, but in 1561 it no longer existed during a church visit.

Further use

The buildings burned down in 1619 and 1678, but were used as living space until 1754. Then they were completely removed. In 1889 an elementary school was opened at this point, which is still in use today.

literature

  • Ralf Lusiardi: Querfurt . 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. 611-614.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Franz Schrader (ed.): The visitations of the Catholic monasteries in the Archdiocese of Magdeburg by the Protestant rulers. (= Reformation history studies and texts. Issue 99). Aschendorff, Münster 1969. p. 4

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 54.1 ″  N , 11 ° 36 ′ 4.3 ″  E