Göllingen Monastery
The monastery Göllingen was a monastery in Göllingen in the north of Thuringia , located on the Wipper between Sondershausen in the west and Bad Frankenhausen in the east. It existed between 992 and 1606 and belonged to the Benedictines . The Romanesque monastery ruins have been owned by the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation since 1995 .
history
In building research in the 1990s, the monastery was dendrochronologically dated to around 992 as the time of origin.
The monastery in Göllingen was first mentioned as one of the oldest in Thuringia in a document dating from around 1005/1006. In the document it is referred to as the daughter monastery of the powerful Hersfeld Abbey . Gunther von Schwarzburg bequeathed extensive property to the Göllingen monastery, which in the 11th century was accompanied by a considerable increase in power. In the 13th century the church was rebuilt and received its current (fragmented) appearance. Both the Reformation and the Peasants' War took place in the immediate vicinity of the monastery (e.g. the Battle of Frankenhausen , about eight kilometers to the east), but the monastery was not directly damaged.
It was not until 1606 that the monastery was dissolved and converted into a domain of the Landgraviate of Hesse . The Peace of Westphalia confirmed this in 1648 by exchanging the Hersfeld Abbey between the emperor and the landgrave. The Hersfeld Abbey and the Göllingen Monastery became Hessian property. In 1818 the Hessians exchanged the domain, which then came into the possession of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt , to which the village of Göllingen had belonged for a long time. The Schwarzburger continued to run the farm, as did the State of Thuringia from 1920 .
In 1946 the state domain was dissolved and a canning factory was housed in the monastery church. This existed until 1995. In the meantime, the monastery church had deteriorated into a ruin due to its use as an agricultural enterprise. The Romanesque monastery ruin was given a museum use by the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation. Various events are taking place in Göllingen Monastery today, especially as part of the national and international youth exchange.
investment
The west tower, the crypt , parts of the main apse and parts of the south wall of the choir of the monastery church have been preserved. They were renovated after reunification and can be viewed.
literature
- Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation (publisher): The Benedictine monastery in Göllingen: Research results 2005 to 2009 . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2010, ISBN 3-937940-68-5 .
Web links
- Website of the monastery association
- The Göllingen Monastery on the website of the Thuringian Palaces and Gardens Foundation
- Speech by the Prime Minister at the 1000th anniversary of the monastery in 2005
- Reconstruction drawing by Wolfgang Braun
Individual evidence
- ↑ Udo Sareik: The Benedictine monastery in Göllingen. For building research in the years 1991 to 1997 . E. Reinhold Verlag, Altenburg 2002, ISBN 978-3-910166-56-1 .
- ↑ Kloster Göllingen - Press Review - 2009. In: www.goellingen.de. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 44 ″ N , 11 ° 0 ′ 51 ″ E