Miechów Monastery

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Seal from 1675 with risen Christ

The Monastery of the Guardians of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem was a monastery of the Canons of the Holy Sepulcher in Miechów in Lesser Poland . It existed from 1163 to 1819.

history

The monastery was founded in 1163 by Jaxa von Miechów (not indisputably Prince Jaczo von Köpenick ). He occupied it with canons of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , which he had founded for Lesser Poland. He had brought some of them with him from his trip to the Holy Land in 1162. In the following decades the monastery was given extensive property by several monasteries, monasteries and people. It remained the main monastery of the order until 1335 when it submitted to the Zderaz monastery in Bohemia.

It remained in existence after the Reformation and was not closed until 1819 as the last monastery of the Order of Canons of the Holy Sepulcher in Poland.

cult

The most important spiritual activity in the monastery was the worship of the Holy Sepulcher in the church, which was specially decorated during Holy Week.

Sanctuary to the tomb of God

Interior of the basilica
Holy grave in the chapel

The church was built in Romanesque style from 1230 to 1239, then rebuilt in Gothic style between 1390 and 1410. In 1530, after a city fire, a chapel was built next to the church, in which the Holy Sepulcher has been located ever since. This has a square shape and is built from stones on earth from Jerusalem. In the west wall of the chapel a stone from Christ's tomb is walled in.

At the end of the 18th century, the basilica was rebuilt in the late Baroque style, in which it can still be seen today.

The Basilica of God's Tomb in Miechów is currently used as a parish church and pilgrimage site.

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The most important historical writing on the history of the monastery is

  • S [amuel] Nakielski: Miechovia, sive Promptuarium antiquitatum monasterii Miechoviensis (Miechów or Collection of Antiquities of the Miechów Monastery) . Cracovia 1634.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the role of Jaxa and the foundation cf. Jerzy Rajman: Pilgrim and Donor. About the sacred foundations and the origins of Prince Jaxa. In: Eduard Mühle (Hrsg.): Monarchiscbe and noble sacral foundations in medieval Poland. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2013. pp. 317-346
  2. ^ Basilica of the Holy Sepulcher in Miechów
  3. ↑ Sanctuary of the Divine Tomb in Miechów

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 27 ″  N , 20 ° 1 ′ 36 ″  E