Obra monastery

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Cistercian Abbey of Obra
location PolandPoland Poland
Greater Poland Voivodeship
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 '15 "  N , 16 ° 3' 24"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 4 '15 "  N , 16 ° 3' 24"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		629
founding year 1237
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1835
Mother monastery Wągrowiec Monastery
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Monastery church in Obra

The Obra Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey in the Polish Greater Poland Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The monastery is located on the River Obra lying village of Obra the community Wolsztyn ( Wollstein ).

history

Village Obra on the Obra river southwest of the city of Posen and southwest of the city of Wollstein on a map of the province of Posen from 1905 (areas marked in yellow indicate areas with a majority of Polish- speaking population at the time ).

Monastery Obra was as a branch of the convent Łekno (later Abbey Wągrowiec (Wongrowitz)) from the filiation of Altenberg in Bergisch Land, in turn, from the Branch Morimond derives, in 1237 by Kantor Sandivius (Sendziwoj) of Gniezno Cathedral from the Jelenczyk- Gender donated. The monastery was one of the three so-called "Cologne monasteries" (see Wągrowiec Monastery (Wongrowitz), Ląd Monastery (Lond)). The conventuals came from the Rhineland until 1553. In the 17th century the abbot was Vicar General of the Order for Poland and Prussia. In 1835 the monastery was closed. The church became a parish church. Now there is a spiritual seminary there.

Buildings and plant

The first detailed information on the structure of the building is contained in the visitation report from 1580. Shortly before 1600, a brick nave was added to the brick presbytery of the church. The new church was consecrated in 1596. A new brick monastery building was built between 1618 and 1633. It's to the right of the church. Most of the monastery was destroyed in the second half of the 17th century. The church was rebuilt in the 18th century according to the project of Giovanni Catenazzi . It is a single-nave, vaulted Rococo building and was consecrated again in 1787.

literature

  • Franz Winter : The Cistercians of north-eastern Germany. A contribution to the church and cultural history of the German Middle Ages . Volume 2: From the appearance of the mendicant orders to the end of the 13th century . Gotha 1871, pp. 369-371.
  • Schneider, Ambrosius: Lexical overview of the male monasteries of the Cistercians in the German language and culture , in: Schneider, Ambrosius; Wienand, Adam; Bickel, Wolfgang; Coester, Ernst (Ed.): Die Cistercienser, Geschichte - Geist - Kunst , 3rd edition, Wienand Verlag Cologne 1986, p. 680, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 ;
  • Schneider, Ambrosius: Colonization and Mission in the East , in: Schneider, Ambrosius; Wienand, Adam; Bickel, Wolfgang; Coester, Ernst (ed.): Die Cistercienser, Geschichte - Geist - Kunst , 3rd edition, Wienand Verlag Cologne 1986, p. 680, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 (with regesta);
  • Vogts: The buildings of the Cologne monasteries in Poland , JBKölnGV 3, 1916, pp. 88–94;
  • Dehio, Georg: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Vol. II Northeast Germany, 2nd edition, Verlag Georg Wasmuth AG Berlin 1922, p. 349;
  • Faryna-Paszkiewicz, Hanna / Omilanowska, Małgorzata / Pasieczny, Robert: Atlas zabytków architektury w Polsce , Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa 2001, p. 227, ISBN 83-01-13478-X ;
  • Orthen, Norbert: The "Altenberger" monasteries in Poland: Lekno / Wagrowiec, Lond, Obra, a travel report , undated (1998),
  • Jarosz, Dariusz: The Cistercian monasteries of the Altenberger line: Lekno, Lond, Obra , in Knefelkamp, ​​Ulrich, Reddig, Wolfgang F .: Monasteries and landscapes, Cistercians west and east of the Oder , 2nd ed. Scripvaz Verlag Frankfurt / O. 1999, pp. 177-185, ISBN 3-931278-19-0 , m. LitVerz .;
  • Krason, Józef: Uposażenie klasztoru cystersów w Obrze w wiekach średnich , Poznań 1950;
  • Wyrwa, Andrzej: linii altenberskiej Łekno, Obra, Ląd , Pozna 1995

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