Carthusian monastery Grabow
 
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The location of the Charterhouse on the map of today's Poland. |
The Carthusian Monastery of Divine Mercy (Domus Gratiae Dei) is a former monastery of the Carthusian Order near Szczecin .
history
The Charterhouse was founded in 1360 (according to other information in 1342) in Grabow near Stettin by the Pomeranian Duke Barnim III. founded and belonged to the order of the Carthusians.
The monastery was located in what was then a suburb of Szczecin on the banks of the Oder and was the first charterhouse on the Baltic coast . The first monks probably came from the Hortus Beatae Mariae Charterhouse in Prague. The main economic activity was money business. The library was important. In 1278 a vineyard was mentioned in Grabow, this is the earliest evidence of viticulture in Pomerania .
In 1538 Barnim IX closed. signed a contract with the monks to hand over the charterhouse and had it rebuilt into "Oderburg Castle". At the beginning of the 17th century, Philip II , Duke of Pomerania-Stettin , furnished the palace with his extensive collection of paintings. In the years 1619–1620, Sidonia von Borcke , a Pomeranian noblewoman who was later convicted and executed for alleged witchcraft, was imprisoned in the Oderburg.
The building was badly damaged during the Thirty Years War . In July 1630, the Swedes under Gustav Adolf occupied the city and set up their quarters in the Oderburg. The castle was finally demolished in 1677 during the Northern War .
Today the Szczecin shipyard's office buildings are located on the grounds of the monastery and palace. Individual documents from the monastery are in the Greifswald State Archives .
literature
- Sönke Lorenz (Hrsg.): Books, Libraries and Writing Culture of the Carthusians - Festgabe for the 65th birthday of Edward Potkowski , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-515-08093-7
- Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Flechsig-Buchvertrieb, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-439-X , p. 121.
- Rafał Witkowski: Szczecin / Stettin , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 728-732.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 22 " N , 14 ° 34 ′ 30" E