Marksussra Monastery

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The monastery Marksußra was 1287-1551 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Marksußra , City Ebeleben , in Thuringia .

history

Knight Albert II von Ebeleben, feudal man of the Counts von Gleichen , founded the nunnery Sankt Walburga in Suzara (later: Sussra) in 1287, which was settled with ten sisters from the Beuren monastery and four from the Anrode monastery . In 1551 the monastery was dissolved, from whose income the Ebeleben Abbey School grew (until 1829), the most famous of which was Paulus Götz . In recent times, archaeological excavations have uncovered the foundation walls of the monastery.

literature

  • Anna Egler: "Marksußra". In: Friedhelm Juergensmeier , Regina Elisabeth Schwerdtfeger: The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia. (= Germania Benedictina , Vol. IV-2). EOS Verlag, Erzabtei St. Ottilien 2011. pp. 1087-1097.
  • Mario Küßner: "Marksussra Monastery - from St. Boniface to Thomas Müntzer". In: Archeology in Germany 29, 2, 2013, p. 57.
  • Hermann Gresky: The pen school in Ebeleben . Eupel, Sondershausen 1929.
  • Friedrich Gerber: Marksussra and the Stiftsschule zu Ebeleben . In: Thuringia and the Harz with their peculiarities, folk tales and legends. Historical-romantic description of all castles, fortresses, monasteries, strange churches and other buildings that existed and still exist in Thuringia and the Harz Mountains . Vol. 3. Sondershausen 1841, pp. 259-268 (online).

Manual literature

  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 54 B.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 499.
  • Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 504.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 17 ′ 15.6 ″  N , 10 ° 44 ′ 28.6 ″  E