Langenzenn Monastery

Former Langenzenn monastery in the old town (aerial view)

The monastery Langenzenn is a former convent of the Augustinian Canons in Langenzenn in Bavaria in the diocese of Bamberg .

history

The monastery consecrated to Saint Mary was founded in 1409 by Johann III. and Friedrich VI. , Burgrave of Nuremberg founded; it was dissolved in 1533 during the Reformation . The monastery with its Gothic cloister has been preserved.

See also Langenzenn culture and sights

literature

• Contribution to the history of the abolished monasteries in Franconia: Closter Langenzenn . In: Johann Caspar Bundschuh , Johann Christian Siebenkees (ed.): Journal von und für Franken , Volume 6, Nuremberg 1793, pp. 298–303.
• August Gebeßler : City and District of Fürth (=  Bavarian Art Monuments . Volume 18 ). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1963, DNB  451450957 , p. 116-118 .

Web links

Commons : Kloster Langenzenn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Langenzenn Abbey , basic data and history:
  Christine Riedl-Valder: Langenzenn - Franconian comrades -in-arms of  a Bohemian reform movement in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History

Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 39 ″  E