Sittichenbach Monastery
| Sittichenbach Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Abbot's chapel of the former Cistercian abbey |
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| location |
 Germany Saxony-Anhalt |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 27 '54.9 " N , 11 ° 31' 3.3" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
155 |
| founding year | 1141 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1540 |
| Mother monastery | Walkenried Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
Lehnin Monastery (1180) |
The Sittichenbach Monastery (Sichemium; Sichem) was a Cistercian abbey in what is now the Sittichenbach district of Lutherstadt Eisleben in the Mansfeld-Südharz district in Saxony-Anhalt .
history
The monastery was founded by the Walkenried monastery and thus belonged to the filiation of the Morimond primary abbey . From there, at the request of Esikos II von Bornstedt in 1141, Abbot Volkuin and eleven other monks were sent to establish a new daughter monastery in what would later become the county of Mansfeld. The monks succeeded in acquiring extensive land and setting up several monastery courtyards. On behalf of the Margraves of Brandenburg, the monks from Sittichenbach built the Lehnin monastery in 1180 . Furthermore, the new buildings of Buch monastery near Leisnig in 1192 and Grünhain monastery in the Erzgebirge in 1235 followed. Especially with the latter, close economic trade and exchange is known. B. found its expression in the jointly managed monastery courtyard in Zwickau . In addition, until the 15th century, monks from Sittichenbach were sent as abbots to the Grünhain monastery if there was a shortage of personnel there, for example the monk Johannes Funk in 1460, or in 1475 the monk Laurentius, who was also head of the monastery courtyard in Zwickau was used.
From 1209 the Halberstadt bishop Konrad von Krosigk spent his old age in the monastery. (Document book of the monasteries of the County of Mansfeld, Halle 1888). The monastery was in dispute with the Halberstadt cathedral, as both parties claimed relics and treasures that Konrad had looted during the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople.
In 1362 the monastery was badly hit in a feud between Bishop Ludwig von Halberstadt and Count von Mansfeld. The abbot and monks were taken hostage and some of them died. The over the Mansfeld Count then was excommunication pronounced.
In 1540 the monastery was secularized and in 1612 the Counts of Mansfeld left the monastery to Elector Johann Georg I of Electoral Saxony. The monastery now became the official seat. The office of Sittichenbach came in 1656 to the Albertine branch line Saxony-Weissenfels , which integrated it into the principality of Querfurt in 1686. After the extinction of Weißenfelser Dukes in 1746 the territories fell back to Saxony and were after for the kingdom of Saxony lossy Congress of Vienna in 1815 in the newly formed Prussian province of Saxony integrated.
Plant and buildings
Only a few remains of the monastery have survived over the years, such as a chapel that was heavily redesigned in the 19th century and converted into an official chapel in 1615, the “shepherd's house” west of the chapel, and another chapel, the monk's gallery, which was converted into a residential building , the monastery ponds and the pigeon house. The location of the monastery church in the northwest of today's church is known from excavations carried out in 1978. A large cube capital, which is now set up in front of the Catholic Church, and three other capitals that are set up in an extension of the manor house have been preserved from her. The east wall of the western enclosure wing has been preserved.
literature
- Peter Pfister : monastery guide of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area . 2nd edition Strasbourg 1998: Éditions du Signe, p. 479, ISBN 2-87718-596-6
