Berka Monastery

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Berka Monastery / St. Georg Monastery
Lies in the diocese Archdiocese of Mainz
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '2.2 "  N , 11 ° 17' 6.7"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 54 '2.2 "  N , 11 ° 17' 6.7"  E
Patronage St. George and Trinity from 1248 Maria
founding year 1241
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1525

Daughter monasteries

Mariengarten Abbey (around 1290)

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The Berka monastery was a Cistercian monastery in Bad Berka in Thuringia .

history

The foundation of the monastery goes to Count Dietrich III. back from Berka . He asked to be allowed to build the monastery at his ancestral home. Presumably the Counts of Berka intended to use the monastery as a house monastery . The Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried III. von Eppstein granted on March 19, 1241 the approval for the foundation. The monastery followed the Cistercian rule without being formally accepted into the Cistercian order. It was directly subordinate to the archdeacon of the diocese.

It initially leased the Georgskapelle with attached hermitage in Munich near Berka from St. Peter's Monastery in Erfurt . In 1248 the monastery finally acquired the chapel, but under the repurchase right of the monastery of St. Peter. At this point in time, the convent had already moved to the new monastery building in Berka. When moving, the monastery also accepted the patronage of Mary . In 1251 the monastery received the parish Berka and other goods from the founder of the monastery, Dietrich.

After the founding family died out in 1273, the monastery developed slowly. There were only a few donations, such as the foundation of second altars by Mr. von Blankenstein (1367 and 1379). All in all, goods belonging to the monastery can be found in 19 locations in the Berka area.

The founding convent of the Mariengarten monastery in Erfurt, founded around 1290, came from the Berka monastery . The Berka monastery had a prayer fraternity with the St. Peter monastery in Erfurt (documented 1314) and the Admont monastery in Austria (documented 1476). A monastery school is occupied for 1440. Most of the convent members came from regional families of the lower nobility.

The Lords of Witzleben had since 1422 bailiwick about the monastery. They probably used the turmoil of the Peasants' War (1525) to move out of the monastery, which was last mentioned in 1520. The monastery archive burned, probably as a result of the Peasants' War. A legal dispute between the Witzleben bailiffs and the monastery of St. Peter over the chapel in Munich decided in 1537 , Elector Johann Friedrich von Sachsen in favor of the Witzleben residents.

In 1605/08 the Ernestines acquired control of Berka. The former monastery buildings became the seat of the Berka office and the monastery property was converted into a domain . Remnants of the monastery complex have been preserved in the current rectory in Bad Berka. In place of the former monastery church, today's church was built in 1739. The name of the Klosterbergschule in Bad Berka refers to the location of the school next to the former location of the monastery.

Abbesses

  • Margaret (1248)
  • Zachariah (1270)
  • Elisabeth (1314)
  • Kunigunde (1348)
  • Sophie Schenkin of Tautenburg (1402,1404)
  • Sophie Hemen (1440)
  • Katharina Ploszwisch (1458)
  • Elisabeth of Gleichen (1473)

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