Adersleben Monastery
The Adersleben Monastery was a Cistercian monastery in the small community of Adersleben, today's district of Wegeleben in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
After the local church in Adersleben was transferred to the Burchardikloster in Halberstadt in 1216 , the local monks promoted the establishment of a Cistercian nunnery that was consecrated to St. Nicholas . The monastery was confirmed in 1267 by Bishop Volrad von Halberstadt.
In 1276 the local church was incorporated into the monastery and later the entire place and the farmers living there were transferred to the monastery by purchase. The village of Adersleben was therefore designated as a desert in 1445 .
The monastery was designed to care for worthy frail virgins .
In the Peasants 'War in 1525 and in the Thirty Years' War , the monastery complex was looted and partially destroyed. The monastery continued to exist. However, it experienced a period of decline, which ended in 1809 with the complete repeal by the resolutions of the Kingdom of Westphalia . The monastery church consecrated to St. Nicholas has been a Catholic parish church ever since . It was built around 1751. The baroque high altar from 1794 and two side altars are noteworthy.
Today the Church of St. Nikolaus belongs to the Catholic parish of St. Burchard , based in Halberstadt.
The actual monastery buildings came into the possession of private individuals and were repurchased by the Prussian state in 1866, which established a state domain here. Hardly any remains of the historical buildings have survived today.
136 documents from the Adersleben monastery from 1259 to 1673 have been preserved in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive .
See also
Web links
- "Cistercian convent Adersleben" (GSN: 254) in: Germania Sacra
- historical maps Adelebsen in: slub-dresden.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 35 ″ N , 11 ° 11 ′ 5 ″ E