Eisenach Charterhouse

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The gardener's house in the Kartausgarten shows the last remains of the Carthusian monastery
A now removed improvised sign on the north wall of the house

The Eisenach Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery in Eisenach in the state of Thuringia . The convent existed from 1378 to 1525.

history

John de Indagine

The Charterhouse " Domus Vallis Sanctae Elisabeth " (German: "Elisabethenhaus") was from 1378 with the support of Landgrave Friedrich III. , Wilhelm I. and Balthasar erected. The first monks came from the Carthusian monastery in Erfurt between 1378 and 1383 . The monastery was built outside the city of Eisenach, in front of the “Frauentor” in the south of the city. In 1382 the General Chapter officially incorporated the new foundation into the order.

The charterhouse had its greatest heyday in the 14th and 15th centuries. Mainstream scholars of scholasticism , as John Indaginis (actually Johann von Hagen , 1415-1475), in the years 1454-1456 prior in Eisenach, later prior of the Carthusian monastery of Erfurt, emerged from the Eisenacher Convention. His successor Heinrich Nemritz (prior from 1457–1474) worked from 1477 to 1482 as a general visitator of the Low German order province of the Carthusians.

The Reformation divided the brothers. As early as the beginning of the 1520s, some monks followed Martin Luther's teachings .

Cancellation and subsequent use

During the "Eisenach Pfaffensturm" on April 24, 1525, the buildings were looted and badly damaged. The monks and nuns of all Eisenach monasteries were expelled from the city. The monastery was abolished and Elector Johann confiscated the grounds. Elector Johann Friedrich I had the secularized monastery repaired by 1537 and initially used the site as a pleasure garden. The complex was looted during the Thirty Years War .

In 1694 an orphanage and spinning house was set up in the monastery buildings by Duke Johann Georg II . The garden served as a ducal kitchen garden. Between 1717 and 1721 a new breeding and orphanage with a textile factory was built. Around 1790, the court gardener Johann Georg Sckell transformed it into a landscape garden. After the orphanage was closed in 1819, the building served as a penal and reformatory.

Today the Kartausgarten is located on the former monastery grounds , which Hermann Jäger (1815–1890) took on its present form in 1845 .

Buildings

The gardener's house in the center of the Kartausgarten with the classicist "tea room" shows the last visible remains of the building of the Charterhouse.

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
  • Gottfried Kühn: The Carthusian Monastery in Eisenach , Verlag Kahle, Eisenach 1896
  • Joseph Kremer: Contributions to the history of the monastic settlements of Eisenach in the Middle Ages . In: Sources and treatises on the history of the Diocese of Fulda . tape II . Fuldaer Aktiendruckerei, Fulda 1905, The Karthäuserkloster, p. 128-164 .
  • Gerhard Schlegel: Eisenach , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 352–357.

See also

Web links

Commons : Eisenach Charterhouse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Karl Salomo Thon: Schloss Wartburg - Eyn Beytrag zur Kunde der Vorzeit , Verlag Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, Gotha 1792, p. 121 ff
  2. ↑ a b Sönke Lorenz, Oliver Auge, Robert Zagolla: Books, Libraries and Writing Culture of the Carthusians - Festive Offer for the 65th Birthday of Edward Potkowski , Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, p. 7
  3. ↑ Johann Wolf: Political History of Eichsfeld , Volume 2, Verlag Rosenbusch, Göttingen 1793
  4. ↑ Jakob Dominikus: Erfurt and the Erfurt area , Verlag CW Ettinger, Gotha 1793, p. 261
  5. ↑ Hans Patze: History of Thuringia - Basics and the early Middle Ages , Volume 1, Verlag Böhlau, Cologne 1968, p. 105
  6. ^ Georg Heinrich Albert Ukert, Friedrich August Ukert: Dr. Martin Luther's Leben , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1817
  7. ^ Karl Limmer: Draft of a documented-pragmatic history of Thuringia , Verlag Friedrich Weber, Ronneburg 1837
  8. ↑ Stefan Wolter: Think about poverty . The poor system of the city of Eisenach in the late 17th and 18th centuries, Göttingen 2003, pp. 234–381.
  9. ↑ Portrait of the Kartausgarten on the website of the city of Eisenach

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 4 ″  N , 10 ° 19 ′ 26 ″  E