Alsleben Monastery
The monastery of St. John the Baptist (Latin: Sancti Johannis Baptistae ) was a canoness - and later a collegiate monastery in Alsleben an der Saale in what is now Saxony-Anhalt from the 10th to the 16th century.
location
The pens were in the castle of Alsleben next to the medieval city. No major structural remains have survived.
history
From 979 two documents have been preserved about the canonical monastery (or Benedictine convent?), Which was founded by Count Gero von Alsleben and his wife Adela and confirmed as direct imperial by Emperor Otto II . Two of the founders' granddaughters were later abbesses there. In 1104, Duke Lothar von Süpplingenburg burned down the monastery during a campaign against Alsleben. In 1230 it was subordinated to the Archbishopric of Magdeburg , like the county of Alsleben . It was mentioned for the last time as a nunnery in 1441.
In 1489 a collegiate monastery was first mentioned at the Johanniskirche, which in 1561 was incorporated into the Magdeburg bishopric and secularized. afterwards the facility and the associated goods went to the von Krosigk family .
In 1874 the Romanesque collegiate church of St. John the Baptist was demolished (and replaced by the Catholic St. Elisabeth Church?).
literature
- Johann Christoph von Dreyhaupt : Pagus Neletizi et Nudzici, or detailed diplomatic-historical description of the (...) Saal-Kreyses and all cities, palaces, offices, manors, noble families, churches, monasteries, parishes and villages (...) . Emanuel Schneider, Hall 1749/50. (Reprint Halle 2002. ISBN 3-930195-70-4 .) P. 834
Web links
- Benedictine convent Alsleben, later collegiate foundation Germania Sacra