Orphal Monastery

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Grundmühle in Weißbachtal
Signpost "Orphaler Grund"

The Orphal Monastery was the name of a monastery near Töttelstädt , a district of Erfurt .

The monastery, which was presumably consecrated to St. Georg and founded by the brothers Eberhard and Kuno von Trier, and the village of Orphal were first mentioned in 1074 in a letter from Hasungen monastery .

The place Orphal was mentioned for the last time in 1307. The Archbishop of Mainz attempted to save the monastery by transferring the patronage rights to the then wealthy Peterskloster Erfurt . After it had almost completely fallen into disrepair, the church at Orphal was rededicated in 1479, which was administered by the Erfurt Peterskloster. Around 1530 the chapel of the former Orphal monastery was given up as a result of the Reformation.

The monastery was located in Orphaler Grund near the Weißbach in a parcel that is called Orphaler Kirche in the Töttelstädter land map . Today there is still a mill with a restaurant in Orphalgrund not far from the sparse remains of the wall. In the mill there are various pictures that illustrate the monastery, but were probably painted long after its decline.

The approximately 300 m above sea level. NN high elevation between the Grundmühle and Töttelstädt north of the Weissbach is called Orphaler Berg in a map of the BfN . To the east of it rises the Katzenberg . In the depression between the two hills, a trickle rises in the monastery well , which pours into the Weißbach below the Grundmühle. These are all references to the monastic past.

The disappearance of the monastery is the content of a regional legend.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Orphal Monastery , private website, accessed on July 20, 2019
  2. ^ The village of Tiefthal from: W. Heinze: In the Weißbachtal near Erfurt - a contemplative hike to the Grundmühle. Frauendorff, Arnstadt 1928 - Excerpt from a private website, accessed on November 1, 2012
  3. ↑ Die Grundmühle , private website, accessed on November 1, 2012
  4. ↑ The legend about the creation of the Alacher See and the disappearance of the Orphal monastery , private website, accessed on July 20, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 40 ″  N , 10 ° 54 ′ 40 ″  E