St. Georg Monastery (Naumburg)

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The Benedictine monastery of St. George in Naumburg (Saale) was the oldest monastery of the diocese of Naumburg and family monastery of the Margrave of Meissen from the noble family of Ekkehardiner . The patrons were Maria and Georg .

history

Cover sheet of the description of the St. Georgen Monastery in Naumburg by Johann Martin Schamelius (1728) with the image of the monastery to the right and left of the Naumburg Cathedral

The beginnings of the oldest Benedictine monastery in the Naumburg-Zeitz diocese are in the dark, evidence is probably given around 1046. As a house monastery of the important north Thuringian dynasty of the Ekkehardines , it could have been in the immediate vicinity of the ancestral seat in Gene near the Unstrut confluence with the Saale in the 10th century. Archaeological studies have shown that for the location of this headquarters only Kleinjena, south of the Unstrut , with the area of ​​the Kapellenberg can be considered. The monastery was thus located in the district of the Mainz diocese. Margrave Ekkehard I.

In the course of the relocation of the Ekkehardiner headquarters to the eastern bank of the Saale in the Neue Burg (later Naumburg) after 1000, the monastery was also relocated there. Thus the monastery belonged to the 968 by Emperor I. Otto founded Zeitz diocese . At that time St. George was the only monastery in the diocese and the first Benedictine abbey in the area east of the Saale. In 1028 and 1032 the margraves obtained the transfer of the episcopal seat of the diocese from Zeitz to Naumburg.

In 1532 the monastery burned down except for a few parts of the building.

literature

  • Joh. Martin Schamel: Historical description of the formerly famous Benedictine monastery at St. Georgen in front of the city of Naumburg , contains u. a. From D. Klosters Foundation u. Religious persons; From D. Shape ad buildings d. Monastery; From D. Klosters Land-Güthern, income u. Affiliations; Of those Aebten, so in d. Lived in the monastery. Martini, Naumburg 1728 ( books.google.de ).
  • Real Theological Encyclopedia . Walter de Gruyter, 1977, ISBN 3-11-002218-4 , p. 563 .
  • Frank Schleicher: The Ekkehardiner among the donors . Ed .: Friedrich Schiller University Jena - Historical Institute. Grin Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-638-75789-8 , urn : nbn: de: 101: 1-2010081212633 .
  • Matthias Ludwig: On the building and art history of the Naumburg Benedictine monastery St. Georg. In: Saale-Unstrut-Yearbook. 15, 2010, pp. 109-114.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The oldest verifiable monasteries in Thuringia and Saxony. In: Bonifatius in Thuringia. bonifatius-in-thueringen.de, accessed on January 14, 2009 .
  2. ^ The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg: The diocese Naumburg 1,1: The diocese . In: Heinz Wießner, Max Planck Institute for History (Ed.): Germania sacra. Historical-statistical description of the Church of the Old Kingdom . New follow-up edition. tape 35 , no. 1 . de Gruyter, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-11-015193-0 ( books.google.de ).
  3. ^ Diocese of Naumburg . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages . tape VI , Sp. 1055 ( manfred-hiebl.de ).
  4. ^ Johann Paul Christian Philipp: History of the Naumburg monastery and Zeitz . Zeitz 1800, p. 17. ( books.google.de ).


Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 45 ″  N , 11 ° 46 ′ 36 ″  E