Heusdorf Monastery

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The St. Gotthard monastery in Heusdorf is a former Benedictine monastery in what is now the Heusdorf district of the city of Apolda in Thuringia .

history

Heusdorf Monastery was founded in 1123. According to legend, Benedictine monks experienced a miracle of Mary at a nearby chapel. Thanks to extensive donations from, among others, the Lords of Isserstedt and the Schenken und Vitzthume von Apolda , the monastery developed into an influential landlord in the region. In the course of the Reformation it was secularized in 1536 and converted into the lordly Heusdorf office, which had its official seat in the buildings of the former monastery.

The architect Gottfried Heinrich Krohne planned the conversion of the official residence into a three-wing complex from 1736 to 1739. In the course of the realization of this plan, some buildings of the monastery were demolished. In the 1680s there were renewed renovation plans; however, the redesign of the official seat into a pleasure palace was not realized. In 1845, large parts of the facility for the construction of the Thuringian Railway in the section from Erfurt via Weimar and Apolda to Naumburg (Saale) were demolished . The remaining buildings were heavily modified or demolished after 1945, so that apart from a few earlier farm buildings nothing is left today.

Heusdorf Office

The Heusdorf office , which has existed since 1536, comprised the former monastery properties and thus the villages in addition to the monastery itself

as well as the current desert areas of Lichtendorf near Stiebritz and Oberkösnitz near Kösnitz . In addition, the lordly administration of the city of Apolda was entrusted to the office.

Heusdorf was part of the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar , only from 1603 to 1672 to the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg and from 1672 to 1690 to Saxony-Jena . It was sold to the von Denstedt family from 1544 to 1595 and leased to the von Witzleben family from 1643 to 1647 . Since 1691 Heusdorf was assigned to the Kapellendorf office as a rent office , but kept its own financial administration. The office was finally dissolved in 1818. Heusdorf, Nauendorf, Herressen and Schöten came to the office of Roßla and Stiebritz to the office of Dornburg .

literature

  • Wilhelm Rein: Heusdorf , in the same: Thuringia Sacra. Document book, history and description of the Thuringian monasteries. II. Ettersburg, Heusdorf and Heyda , Weimar 1865, pp. 35–67 and 113–254
  • Paul Mitzschke : From the Heusdorfer Klosterleben , in: New Archive for Saxon History and Antiquity, Vol. 19 (1898), pp. 339-349
  • Rudolf Diezel : The administrative districts in Saxony-Weimar since the 16th century. An administrative history-topographical study , in: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity, Supplement 27 (1943), pp. 65–66
  • Thomas Waschke: Sankt Gotthard zu Heusdorf. The story of a Benedictine monastery in Thuringia , Apolda 1993

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Patze , Walter Schlesinger : History of Thuringia: Art History and Numismatics in Modern Times, Böhlau, 1979 [1]
  2. ↑ Hans-Herbert Möller : Gottfried Heinrich Krohne and the architecture of the 18th century in Thuringia., B. Hessling, Berlin, 1956, p. 67 [2]
  3. ↑ Heiko Laß: Hunting and pleasure palaces of the 17th and 18th centuries in Thuringia. Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-092-5 , pp. 279, 324.

Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 4.3 ″  N , 11 ° 32 ′ 11.9 ″  E