Bachra Monastery
| Bachra Monastery | |
|---|---|
| Lies in the diocese | Archdiocese of Mainz |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 11 '24 " N , 11 ° 21' 0" E |
| Patronage | Elisabeth of Thuringia |
| founding year | before 1260 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
before 1272 |
The monastery Bachra was a Cistercian convent in Bachra in district Sömmerda in Thuringia . It only existed for a few years in the middle of the 13th century and was dedicated to Saint Elisabeth , Landgrave of Thuringia.
history
Due to the very short period of the monastery history, only a few documents have survived that provide information about the monastery history. The exact time of the foundation of the monastery and its possible donors are unknown.
There is evidence of a dispute in the convent of the Kapelldorf monastery in 1256 . 15 nuns had moved out of the monastery because they were of the opinion that they could not live in the monastery according to the rules. The monastery estates located in the immediate vicinity of the Kapellendorf monastery, which were awarded to the outgoing nuns, are in the possession of the Bachra monastery mentioned for the first time in May 1260.
An abbess M. and the provost Berthold are mentioned in a document for the Reichsstift Quedlinburg in 1266 . The only known seal of the monastery is on this document, which is now kept in the main state archive in Weimar . It shows Saint Elizabeth with a book and a palm branch.
However, the monastery seems to have been dissolved again before 1272. Due to later ownership of the Donndorf monastery , it is assumed that the convent moved there. There are no more remains of the monastery, its exact location near Bachra is unknown.
literature
- Johannes Mötsch: Bachra . In: Historical section of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy (ed.): The monasteries and nunneries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia . Friedhelm Jürgenmeister, Regina Elisabeth Schertfeger (= Germania Benedictina ). tape IV , no. 1 . EOS Verlag Archabbey St. Ottilien , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4 , p. 193-196 .