St. Jacobi Monastery (Halberstadt)

The St. Jacobi Monastery in Halberstadt was a nunnery of Cistercian women founded in 1199.

From the 17th century, the monastery was popularly referred to as the Burchardi monastery .

In the course of secularization, the monastery was closed and sold in 1808.

It was built where a few years earlier, a hospital for pilgrims with the same patron saint was born. In the 19th century, the buildings were ultimately privately owned. Some of the library holdings acquired by the Chief Justice Ernst Georg Julius Hecht were moved to the Lower Saxony State Archives after the Second World War .

Today the Kolping-Bildungswerk Sachsen-Anhalt uses the site of the former monastery, which is still remembered by the street name "Am Kloster".

Subsidiaries were founded by the monastery of Sankt Marien zu Helfta , the monastery Adersleben and the monastery St. Gertrud in Hedersleben .

literature

• The St. Jacobi nunnery and its daughter monasteries in the Halberstadt diocese, Cornelia Oefelein 2004
• The spiritual legacy: ways and perspectives of mediation edited by Angelika Lozar p. 43ff
• The cult of St. James in Saxony edited by Klaus Herbers, Enno Bünz p. 117

Coordinates: 51 ° 54 ′ 3 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 30 ″  E