Großballhausen Monastery
| Großballhausen Monastery | |
|---|---|
| Lies in the diocese | Archdiocese of Mainz |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 9 '24 " N , 10 ° 53' 40.4" E |
| founding year | before 1306 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1326 |
The Großballhausen Monastery was a Cistercian convent near Großballhausen in Thuringia . It only existed for a few years and was moved to the Großfurra monastery as early as 1326 . The patronage of the monastery is unknown. A preserved monastery seal shows a saint with a book and palm fronds.
history
Due to the very short period of the monastery history, only a few documents have survived that provide information about the monastery history. The exact time of the foundation of the monastery and its donors are unknown. The Lords of Ballhausen, the Landgraves of Thuringia or the Archdiocese of Mainz are named as possible donors . It is possible that there was a relationship with the Cistercian monastery Walkenried , which owned goods in Ballhausen before 1260.
The first mention of the existing monastery and its abbess Adelheid took place in 1306. The monastery had 22.5 Hufe of land in and around Ballhausen, as well as numerous interest rights.
On March 3, 1322, Landgrave Friedrich gave the monastery patronage over the parish church of Großfurra with the condition that a monastery be built there. As a result, the Großfurra monastery was built at the church, to which the convent moved in 1326.
The village church of St. Vitus, first mentioned in 1258, probably served as the monastery church . At the Monastery of the recall Flurname monastery gardens and the Monastery Gardens Road in Great Ballhausen.
Abbesses
- Adelheid (1306)
- Mechthild (1314)
literature
- Monika Lücke : Ballhausen / Grossfurra . In: Historical section of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy (ed.): The monasteries and nunneries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia . Friedhelm Jürgenmeister, Regina Elisabeth Schertfeger (= Germania Benedictina ). tape IV , no. 1 . EOS Verlag Archabbey St. Ottilien , Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4 , p. 197-215 .