Charterhouse Marienparadies (Kartuzy)

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The Carthusian Monastery Church in Kartuzy
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The Charterhouse Marienparadies in Karthaus ( Kartuzy in Polish ; Kartuzë in Kashubian ) was a monastery of the Carthusian Order ( Kartause ) in today's Powiat Kartuski ( Powiat Karthaus ) in the Polish Pomeranian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The monastery was about forty kilometers west of Danzig between the Klostersee in the north, the Krugsee and the Turmberg in the south.

history

The Domus Paradisi Mariae Charterhouse was founded in 1380. The first prior of the monastery was the Westphalian Johann Deterhus . It received major donations from the Teutonic Order. Many of the 16 Klausen, in which the monks lived individually, were donated by the citizens of Danzig. Through donations and acquisitions, the monastery property has expanded considerably over time. Tar smelters, glassworks and charcoal burners were maintained in the forests. Settlers were assigned to the clearing around the monastery. Many of them came from Pomerania and were Protestant.

During the Reformation, the number of monks dropped to four in 1541. In 1565 the Carthusian monastery was subordinated to the Oliva monastery of the Cistercians and was forcibly united with it between 1580 and 1589. In 1760 the prior Georg Schwengel wrote down extracts from files and documents on the history of the monastery under the title “Apparatus ad annales Cartusiae paradisi BMV”.

The Charterhouse Marienparadies came to Prussia in 1772 with pommerelles ; it was the only monastery of this order in Prussia. In 1826 the monastery was abolished after the Pope and the Prussian state agreed on secularization in the Bull De salute animarum . The Gothic monastery church was handed over to the newly founded Catholic parish of Karthaus as the parish church in 1849. It was only after the abolition of the Charterhouse that today's city of Kartuzy developed .

  • Nave

  • High altar

  • Altar in the aisle

  • refectory

  • Hermitage

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
  • Rafał Witkowski: Kartuzy / Karthaus / Danzig , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 733–739.

Web links

Commons : Kartause Karthaus (Kartuzy)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part II: Topography of West Prussia , Marienwerder 1789, p. 59, No. 6.

Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 8.9 ″  N , 18 ° 11 ′ 29 ″  E