Althaldensleben monastery
The Althaldensleben monastery is a former Cistercian monastery near the town of Haldensleben in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
In Althaldensleben, Archbishop Albrecht I of Magdeburg founded a Cistercian convent with nuns from the Wöltingerode monastery in 1228 . The abbess Sophia von Alvensleben (1516–1590) prevented the monastery from becoming Protestant during her tenure. Since some nuns professed their Protestant denomination, a Protestant preacher had to be hired in 1562. Both Catholic and Protestant services then took place in the monastery church. Since the relationship between the denominations deteriorated after the Thirty Years' War, the abbess Anna Margarethe Schlebusch divided the church into a Protestant and a Catholic part. Until the abolition by the authorities of the Kingdom of Westphalia in 1810, the convent of the Althaldensleben monastery existed , which looked after the citizens who remained Catholic after the introduction of the Reformation .
The monastery building, farm yard and agriculture (as well as the agricultural Vorwerk Glüsig belonging to the complex ) of the secularized monastery were sold in 1810 to the Magdeburg entrepreneur Johann Gottlob Nathusius , who also acquired Hundisburg Castle in 1811 . His family now lived in the former monastery building, which was turned into a manor house . The chapel that existed there for a while was relocated in 1830 to the new building of a double church in Althaldensleben, financed by Nathusius . After Nathusius' death, his son Philipp von Nathusius took over the property , later his younger brother Heinrich von Nathusius . The latter's children sold the system to Carl von Dippe in October 1893 . After further changes of ownership, the estate was declared a Soviet economy in 1945 . In 1949 the last owner, Hugo Henkel , who had bought the property for his son, was formally expropriated as part of the GDR land reform and the buildings were used for the elementary and vocational school from 1952. The property was extensively renovated between 1996 and 2000 and has been used as a vocational school center ever since.
The village of Althaldensleben, which developed around the monastery, was merged with the town of Neuhaldensleben in 1938.
The monastery archives came to the State Archives of Saxony-Anhalt after 1945 .
View from the park, ca.1895
The farmyard of the estate around 1980
Garden view of the castle, now used as a vocational school, in 2009
Building of the estate's former farm yard in 2009
Monument protection
In the local register of monuments , the community of monastery buildings (four-winged enclosure) and monastery estate (includes the farm buildings on the rectangular courtyard) is registered as a monument under registration number 094 84394 . The complex is classified as important in terms of cultural and church history, economic history and urban planning. Other listed buildings in the complex are the upper and lower mills from the 18th century, as well as the former factory and farm workers' houses from the 19th century.
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology Saxony-Anhalt , May 22, 2017, page 695, Haldensleben-Althaldensleben, registration number: 094 84411, date of registration: August 6, 1998
Web links
- Material on Althaldensleben in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 262 kB)
- Further information and pictures on the Nathusius website ( Memento from June 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '48.2 " N , 11 ° 25' 12.6" E