Holy Cross Monastery (Meissen)
Heilig Kreuz Monastery is a ruined monastery on the Elbe in Meißen in Saxony .
history
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At the end of the 12th century, Dietrich the oppressed , Margrave of Meißen , founded a monastery for the Benedictine nuns in Meißen, which was consecrated to the Holy Cross . Its buildings were initially located between Burgberg and Elbe on the site of a former moated castle (today's Leipziger Strasse 30 to 40).
In 1217 the monastery was relocated to the left bank of the Elbe, approx. 1.5 km north of the old town of Meissen . A church building was erected in the first half of the 13th century.
Margrave Dietrich donated the village of Sommerfeld near Leipzig ( "Svmuelt" ) to the nunnery "Zum heiligen Kreuz" on April 24, 1220 . The great distance to Meißen made it difficult to manage the property, so that on April 26, 1391, Sommerfeld was sold to the Thomaskloster in Leipzig for 200 Freiberg Groschen . The Luppa Church was also donated to the monastery in 1220 .
Simultaneously with the relocation in 1217, the Benedictine monastery was placed under the abbot of the Cistercian monastery Altzella near Nossen, whereby the Benedictine nuns were briefly subjected to the Cistercian rule . In the middle of the 13th century, the nunnery returned to its old, Benedictine, order form.
After Martin Luther's Reformation , the monastery was closed in 1568. Around 1570/71, the St. Afra State School was awarded for the economic consolidation of secularized church property . These included the monastery property of the Holy Cross, which owned many fields, forests and meadows in the Jahnabach Valley , in Gasern (municipality of Käbschützal ) and the Meissen suburb of Fischergasse . The monastery building itself was left to decay and was finally destroyed in the Seven Years War (1756–1763).
From 1945 the site of the monastery served as a garden center. Since 1994 it has been the seat of the Meißner Hahnemannzentrum e. V., which had security work carried out on the buildings. Archaeological excavations were carried out between 1997 and 2001 in the area of the modern farm buildings and the old cloister building (including the cloister ). Further excavations and soundings are planned. In 2004 the Hahnemannzentrum carried out further renovation work on the buildings.
The monastery property to the Holy Cross still exists today as a separate area in the Meissen land registers .
people
- Adelheid von Meißen , Queen of Bohemia from the House of Wettin († February 2, 1211 in the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Meißen).
See also
- Holy Cross Monastery (disambiguation)
- Holy Cross Church
- List of the Cistercian monasteries in Saxony
literature
- Günter Naumann: City Lexicon Meißen . Sax-Verlag, Beucha 2009, ISBN 978-3-86729-013-5 .
- Otto Walcha : The monastery of the Holy Cross near Meißen. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter. Vol. 18, Issue 1, 1972, ISSN 0486-8234 , pp. 23-24.
- Helge Landmann: History of the building and monument of the "Heilig Kreuz" Monastery in Meißen , dissertation, Technical University of Dresden, June 2013
Web links
- Website of the Meissner Hahnemannzentrum with pictures of the monastery ruins
- Information from the Saxon State Office for Monument Preservation
Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 30 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 33 ″ E