Frauensee Monastery
| Frauensee Monastery | |
|---|---|
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 52 '42 " N , 10 ° 8' 42" E |
| founding year | before 1202 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
around 1536 |
|
Daughter monasteries |
Kölleda Monastery |
The monastery Frauensee was an abbey of Cistercian nuns in Frauensee , a district of Bad Salzungen in Thuringia Wartburgkreis .
location
The monastery was located on an island in the Frauensee, which was later connected to the shore by heaped ground. The approximate location and extent of the monastery buildings is known from historical records.
history
The date of the founding of the Cistercian convent Frauensee in the Dorndorfer Mark is no longer known, the oldest documentary mention comes from a letter of protection from Thuringian Landgrave Hermann I from the year 1202. This document assumes that a monastery is already under construction. A Mainz document contains stipulations for the monastery administration; the Frauensee convent is allowed to grow to a maximum size of 66 religious. In 1250 the patronage passed from the Lords of Frankenstein to the Thuringian Landgrave Heinrich the Illustrious . In 1266, Frauensee, which belonged to the Hersfeld Abbey , founded a daughter monastery in Kölleda .
The land holdings of the Frauensee monastery grew steadily and aroused the desires of neighboring noble families. Hermann Riedesel, a bailiff in the neighboring Krayenburg , was charged in 1451 with theft and appropriation of monastery property (lands and forests). The outbreak of the Peasants' War in the Werra Valley drove the Frauensee nuns out of the monastery. Around Easter 1525, the farmers attacked the monastery, which was only secured by a few defenders, and plundered the supplies and furnishings.
After the suppression of the peasant uprising, the monastery was confiscated as a pledge from the Hessian landgrave Philip the Magnanimous , at the same time he determined that his new subjects should convert to the Protestant faith. The appointed administrator Michael Flach carries out the secularization of the monastery on behalf of the landgrave . A dispute with the Saxon dukes over the monastery property is settled amicably, the landgrave takes over the lands, the dukes receive escort rights and the last remaining nuns are compensated with cash payments as a pension. In 1536 the Frauensee monastery is considered dissolved.
The former monastery is used in the following years as a Landgrave Hessian estate. In 1627, a major fire caused by inattention destroyed the monastery's farm wing. A reconstruction of the plant is omitted because of the high costs. The Hessian office of Frauensee is housed in the still standing residential and administrative wing of the monastery , it includes the lands, farms and forests that were formerly part of the monastery. In 1628 a new building was completed on the monastery grounds from components of the previous church, it existed until 1854. The main building was converted into a representative castle in the Renaissance style, it still exists today.
In 2001/2002, archaeological investigations were carried out in connection with construction work in the monastery grounds. The walls of the main and auxiliary buildings were documented and a large number of finds were found that describe life on this originally island-like site.
literature
- Iris Friedrich etal: Festschrift for the 800th anniversary of the Frauensee . Ed .: Community administration Frauensee. Bauer & Malsch, Bad Salzungen 2002, p. 46 .
- Manfred Oertel: Vitzeroda and his church. Studies on the history of a village in the Hessian-Thuringian cultural landscape in Werrabogen , Osnabrück 2007. ISBN 978-3-939465-31-7
- "Frauensee" in "Handbook of Historic Places in Germany / Thuringia", ed. H. Patze and P. Aufgebauer, Kröner-Verlag Stuttgart 1989. ISBN 3-520-31302-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Oertel: Vitzeroda and his church. P. 114f