Altendorf Abbey (Nordhausen)

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The monastery Altendorf , too: St. Mary in the Valley was 1238-1526 a monastery of Cistercian nuns , first in Woffleben , from 1294 in Nordhausen in Thuringia.

history

In 1238, halfway between Woffleben, Cleysingen and Appenrode in the village of Bischoferode (also: Bischofferode, see the current street name Bischofferöder Straße ), Dietrich I von Hohnstein founded a community of sisters, which since 1276 has been known as the Monasterium de Monte sancti by papal documents Nicolai Cisterciensis ordinis maguntine diocesis (Cistercian convent Nikolausberg in the diocese of Mainz ) is proven. In 1294 it was relocated to the village of Altendorf, then at the gates of Nordhausen , now a part of the town. There the convent used the church of St. Maria im Tale as a monastery church , 800 m away from the church of St. Maria auf dem Berg and the associated Cistercian convent Frauenberg or Neuwerk St. Maria . The monastery was dissolved in 1526. In Woffleben there are only minor remains of the wall. In Nordhausen, the church of St. Maria im Tale still bears witness to the former monastery.

literature

  • Peter Kuhlbrodt: Nordhausen - Altendorfer monastery. In: Gerhard Schlegel (Ed.): Repertory of the Cistercians in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Langwaden 1998, pp. 396-400.
  • Peter Kuhlbrodt: Nordhausen, Altendorfer monastery. In: The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia , edited by Friedhelm Jürgensmeier and Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger, Germania Benedictina IV, St. Ottilien 2011, pp. 1110–1142.
  • Thomas Sterba: Herder's New Monastery Lexicon . Freiburg 2010, p. 25.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 26.2 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 24.9 ″  E