Gerdauen Monastery

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The Gerdauen Monastery was a branch of the Dominican Order in Gerdauen , today Schelesnodoroschny, in the Order of Prussia from the 15th to the 16th century.

location

The monastery was probably located in the southern part of the city, as there was a monks' bridge on the road from it until 1868. No remains are known today.

The city of Gerdauen was in the eastern part of the State of the Teutonic Order and is now in the Kaliningrad Oblast on the border with Poland.

history

On April 11, 1407, the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order donated 50 marks for the preacher monks to found a monastery in Nordenburg (today Krylowo). In 1409 this was first mentioned as existing.

In 1428 the monastery was relocated to neighboring Gerdauen by order of the Grand Master Paul von Rusdorf , because the prior had complained about the remote location ( in the wilderness ). Only a few documents have survived about the life and economy of the monastery. It belonged to the Polish order province in the Prussian Kontrata (sub-province). It was directed by a prior . The monastery was quite small, it was located in the smallest town in Prussia with a monastery. It received foundations from knights in the area and testamentary gifts from citizens of Gerdauen and Friedland, for this purpose alms were collected, some monks are said to have come to begging in Samland and Memel . Terminator houses are not known.

In the 15th century the monastery was temporarily subject to the Congregation of Observance in Holland, but was mentioned again in the 16th century as belonging to the Polish religious province. The last news about the monastery is known from 1518. It was probably dissolved in the course of the Reformation in Prussia around 1525.

In 1567 the brothers Dietrich and Wilhelm von Schlieben were forced by Duke Albrecht to surrender the monastery property.

literature

  • Rafał Kubicki : Dominikanie w Nordenborku i Gierdawach w XV - początkach XVI wieku. [The Dominicans in Nordenburg and Gerdauen in the 15th to the beginning of the 16th century.] In: Komunikaty mazursko-warmieńskie . Volume 2. 2012. pp. 227-244, German pp. 241f. PDF

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Map in Kubicki, p. 232
  2. ^ Jürgen Sarnowsky : Dominicans and Franciscans in the Order of Prussia. In: Michael Robson, Stefan Röhrkasten (Ed.): Franciscan Organization in the Mendicant Context . LIT Verlag, Berlin 2010. pp. 43–66, here p. 46
  3. ^ Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Detailed and documented history of the Königsberg University. Königsberg in Prussia, 1746. p. 71


Coordinates: 54 ° 21 ′ 31.7 "  N , 21 ° 18 ′ 26.9"  E