Saint Claren Monastery
| Saint Claren Monastery | |
|---|---|
 Saint Claren Monastery |
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| location |
 Germany Saxony-Anhalt Weißenfels |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 11 '59.4 " N , 11 ° 58' 7.4" E |
| founding year | 1284 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1539 |
The former Sankt Claren monastery is a listed monastery in the town of Weißenfels in Saxony-Anhalt . In the local register of monuments , the building is listed as a monument under registration number 094 11346 .
location
The monastery complex has been in the medieval old town since 1301. Before that, it was outside the city walls at the Nikolaikirche, today at the intersection of Naumburger Strasse and Waltherstrasse.
history
The monastery was founded by Margrave Dietrich von Landsberg in 1284 at the instigation of his daughter Sophie. The consecration took place on October 4, 1285, the day of St. Francis of Assisi . The monastery belonged to the order of the Poor Clares , the female branch of the Franciscans . It only took in daughters from noble families. In 1291 Friedrich, a son of the margrave, was buried in the monastery church. In 1292 a house of Franciscan "Friars Minor" ( in domo fratrum minorum ) in Weißenfels was mentioned, the exact location of which is not known (in the city or near the monastery?).
Since the Sisters of the Poor Clares did not feel safe on the road, the monastery was moved to the city in 1301, right next to the city wall. In 1304 a choir in the monastery church for the brothers was mentioned, in which relatives of the margrave were buried. The brothers must have been living in or near part of the monastery at the time. This constellation is otherwise not common in Franciscan monasteries, but for example in Brigitten. The Franciscan Brothers were not mentioned afterwards.
In 1539 the Poor Clare Monastery was closed. The last abbess, Euphemia von Plausick, and five of her Catholic sisters were transferred to the St. Marienthal monastery , where they could stay until their death.
Further use
Margaretha von Watzdorff, who had converted to the Protestant faith with twelve other sisters, became the new abbess of the monastery. In 1540, for example, the Catholic monastery was converted into a Protestant women's monastery. The Saxon Duchess Sidonia from the Wettin house lived in part of her courtyard in all the usable rooms of the monastery. With Regina von Winckelhausen, the evangelical convent died out in 1580.
In the following year the building was used by the electoral rent office. After 1593 it was converted into an office building . In 1606 the land rent master Johann Meißner bought the building.
In 1664, Duke August set up the illustrious Augusteum grammar school in the building , even though he did not acquire the building until 1668. Until 1746, eight professors taught theology , law , medicine and philosophy in the faculties . During the reign of the Dukes of Saxony-Weissenfels , this was also the official seat of various state government colleges. The archives of the Saxon government and justice offices were later housed in the building.
With the establishment of the schoolmaster's headquarters between 1837 and 1908, a royal Prussian teacher training college was set up in the monastery, which was headed by Wilhelm Harnisch for more than 20 years . The last pupils of the illustrious Augusteum grammar school became the first seminarians. The late Gothic choir of the monastery was demolished in 1882 and rebuilt as a cemetery chapel in the new cemetery . From 1910 to 1952 the city library and the city museum were located in the monastery. The Jüdenstrasse portal was detached from the building in 1934 and moved to the north side of the monastery. After the city library and the city museum had moved out of the building, it was used by the People's Police . The grave slabs that were still in the ground were broken out of the ground and walled into the wall of the small cloister. Some grave slabs were badly damaged. The police moved out of the building in 1995, the building was gutted and it has been empty since then. The St. Claren Monastery Civic Association, founded in 2011, campaigns for the preservation and re-accessibility of the monastery to the public.
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During clean-up work in 2015, a medieval wall design was discovered in a monastery hall. This wall design runs through the entire hall and shows various Christian motifs.
Web links
- Sankt Claren Weißenfels Abbey in the picture, accessed October 16, 2017.
literature
- Carl Peter Lepsius : Historical news from the St. Claren monastery in Weißenfels ... In: Karl Eduard Förstemann (Hrsg.): New messages from the area of historical-antiquarian research. Third volume, issue 2. Leipzig 1837. pp. 45-84
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt, 4733 pages.
- ↑ To the Nikolaikirche: Weißenfels, St. Nikolai German inscriptions,
- ↑ Carl Peter Lepsius: Historical news from the St. Claren monastery in Weissenfels ... In: Karl Eduard Förstemann (Hrsg.): New communications from the field of historical-antiquarian research. Third volume, issue 2. Leipzig 1837. pp. 45–94, here p. 61, note * .
- ↑ Kloster Sankt Claren eV , accessed on October 18, 2017