Carthusian monastery Erfurt

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Depiction of the founding legend of the Erfurt Carthusian Monastery, oily tempera painting on spruce wood, dating: around 1525
Baroque facade of the former church of the Erfurt Carthusian monastery

The Charterhouse of St. Salvator Mountain (lat. Domus Sancti montis Salvatoris ) to Erfurt was a Carthusian monastery of the Carthusian Order and consisted of 1374 until 1803. It was south of the Old Town in Löbertor.

history

Construction began in 1372. The church was consecrated in 1375. In 1374 the monastery was incorporated into the order and had 14 monks and 6 lay brothers. Four priests who had first come from the Neuzell Charterhouse received the honorary posts. The first prior was Heinrich Roeckel . Right from the start, the monastery received rich endowments from clergy, nobles and citizens of Erfurt. Soon the number of cells was increased to 24. As early as 1383, the Carthusian monastery Eisenach and in 1387 the Carthusian monastery Hildesheim were founded from Erfurt .

John de Indagine

The charterhouse had its greatest heyday in the 14th and 15th centuries. Famous scholastic scholars, the Prior Johannes Indaginis (actually Johann von Hagen, 1415–1475), elected in 1457, and the Father Jakobus de Clusa (aka Jakob von Paradis or Jacobus de Jüterbog, † 1463) lived for some time in the Erfurt Charterhouse . The struggles of the Reformation affected the silent monastery less. However, the number of monks in the convent declined, so that from 1525 to 1620 the convent did not elect the prior itself, but received one from the general chapter. The convent had shrunk so much at the beginning of the 16th century that the superiors of the general chapter initiated a kind of re-establishment under the prior Jodokus Hess .

Over the centuries, in the Peasants 'War, in the Thirty Years' War and when the monastery was dissolved in 1803 ( secularization ), the church treasure was lost. None of the altars of the church, about the decoration of which the Chronicle of the Charterhouse gives us precise descriptions, has survived today. 1631–1635 turmoil of the Thirty Years' War led to the expulsion of the convent.

Major renovations and new constructions of the Charterhouse were carried out by the priors Ambrosius Kummer and Leopold Wohlgemut between 1702 and 1728. The baroque monastery complex, privately owned since 1805 and converted into a cotton factory and residential houses, was destroyed by fire in 1845.

The large monastery library, which was housed in the sacristy, was moved to the library of the University of Erfurt in 1810 .

Buildings

Kartäuserkloster Erfurt, site plan 1730

Monastery church

From the original large monastery complex only the church with the adjoining buildings has been preserved. In 1922, two figures were removed from the facade to fit windows. At the beginning of the 1990s, a property developer acquired large parts of the old monastery complex in order to create residential property here after it had been gutted . Due to the bankruptcy of the entrepreneur, this project could not be completed, in particular the expansion of the former church remained unfinished. Another investor was then more successful. The topping-out ceremony took place in August 2012, and seven extraordinary apartments were built including the sacristy with its listed features. The church roof was broken open and a third was equipped with a glass surface for an atrium. The baroque facade was again extensively renovated.

Carthusian mill

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Kartäusermühle Erfurt before 2015

At the site of the Carthusian mill, first mentioned in the 13th century, there were listed mill buildings from 1872 until it was demolished in 2015.

literature

  • Joachim Kurt: The history of the Kartause Erfurt, Montis Sancti Salvatoris, 1372−1803 , publishing house Institute for English and American Studies of the University of Salzburg, Salzburg 1989
  • Joseph Klapper: The Erfurt Carthusian Johannes Hagen , St. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1960
  • Gerhard Schlegel: Erfurt , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 345–351.

Web links

Commons : Kartause Erfurt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Portrait of the former Carthusian monastery on the website of the city of Erfurt
  2. ↑ Sönke Lorenz , Oliver Auge, Robert Zagolla: Books, Libraries and Writing Culture of the Carthusians - Festgabe for the 65th birthday of Edward Potkowski , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, p. 139
  3. ^ Johann Wolf: Political history of the Eichsfeldes , Vol. 2, Verlag Rosenbusch, Göttingen 1793
  4. ↑ Jakob Dominikus: Erfurt and the Erfurt area , Verlag CW Ettinger, Gotha 1793, p. 261
  5. ^ Johann Samuel Publication: Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste , Vol. 18, Verlag Gleditsch, Leipzig 1828, p. 102
  6. ↑ Christian August Vulpius: Curiosities of the physical-literary-artistic-historical past and present , vol. 9, Weimar 1821, p. 322
  7. ↑ Michael Tilly :  Jakob von Jüterbog. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 2, Bautz, Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-032-8 , Sp. 1466-1468.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  8. ↑ Hartmut Schwarz: New building in old walls. The topping-out ceremony will be celebrated on Thursday in the former Carthusian monastery church. Thuringian newspaper, August 15, 2012

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 11 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 37 ″  E