Breitenbich Monastery
Breitenbich Monastery was a Cistercian monastery that existed for a few years in the 13th century in the hamlet of the same name (today part of the municipality of Anrode , Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis , Thuringia ). It was the nucleus for the foundation of the Anrode Monastery .
The foundation was under the patronage of the Mother of God Maria (BMV) and All Saints . The actual name of the monastery is unknown, it was not until the 18th century that the name of the property was also used for the former monastery.
location
The monastery was located in the area of today's hamlet Breitenbich, today part of Zella , a district of the municipality of Anrode. Under canon law it was part of the Archdiocese of Mainz ( Archidiakonat Heiligenstadt ).
The church and the convent building were probably about 300 m southwest of today's buildings in Breitenbich, where remnants of foundation walls and stones were found in the 19th century.
history
The monastery was probably founded around 1230, the endowment document from 1250 suggests an already existing convent . The settlement of the Beuren monastery may have started . The economic basis was formed by goods that Dietrich von Helmsdorf's heirs donated to the monastery. 22 hooves near the monastery and a farm in Breitenbich itself are documented.
Located in an area in which the eichsfeldischen interests with those of the imperial city of Muehlhausen competed, the monastery suffered already in its early stages by the pillage, arson and robbery. In the course of the Thuringian-Hessian War of Succession (1247–1263), the buildings were demolished in such a way that regular religious life and regular worship no longer seemed possible. The nuns found refuge in nearby Mühlhausen. The destroyed monastery went to the Order of Lazarus , although it is unclear whether there was a settlement of this knightly order afterwards.
The sisters were then able to build a new monastery in Anrode. The name of a provost is known by name - Otto , as well as that of a sister, Ottilie Kämmerer , the daughter of the founder of Anrode, Heinrich Kämmerer , and later a member of the convent there. A formal incorporation of the convent into the Cistercian order is not documented for the time in Breitenbich.
In 1253 the Kommende Breitenbich of the Knights of St. Lazerus was founded at this place .
literature
- Anna Egler: Breitenbich. In: Ballhausen / Grossfurra. In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier , Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger: The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia (= Germania Benedictina . Vol. 4). Volume 1. EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4 , pp. 266-270.
- Anna Egler: The Anrode Cistercian convent and the Breitenbich Cistercian branch. In: EJb 20 (2012), pp. 5-66
Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 30.7 ″ N , 10 ° 23 ′ 31.5 ″ E