St. Margarethental Monastery
The St. Margarethental Monastery , also called the St. Margarethental Charterhouse , often just Basel Charterhouse , is a former Carthusian monastery in Kleinbasel . Today the Basel bourgeois orphanage is located here .
history
Kleinbasel was owned by the Bishopric of Konstanz when it was acquired by the city of Basel in 1392 together with the bishop's court on the right bank of the Rhine. The Achtburger family and the chief guild master of Basel, Jakob Zibol , bought the property with courtyard, well and vineyard for 600 gold guilders from the city in 1401 . This left it to Prior Winandus, who came from Strasbourg , who then founded the Charterhouse.
On February 8, 1403, Bishop Marquard von Randegg gave his consent to the foundation of a Carthusian monastery in Basel and gave the Carthusian monastery the name of St. Margarethental Monastery .
The Carthusians found ample support, especially from the Amerbach family and other respected citizens. The monastery developed a great influence on people's lives in intellectual and scientific fields. It had its own library . The Basel book printer Johann Amerbach was buried in the monastery. The rhyming chronicle about St. Martina by Hugo von Langenstein comes from the former monastery library . The library also contained Johannes Heynlin's book collection and later came with it to the Basel University Library .
With the beginning of the Reformation , the situation for the monastery became difficult. On March 23, 1529, the last prior escaped from the monastery and town, and the monastery was closed. With the death of the last monk, Thomas Kresszi , the monastery was finally closed in 1564.
In 1669 it became the Basel orphanage , which until then had been in the stone monastery .
literature
- Jürg Ganz: Basel , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 614–617.
Web links
- Church on the website of the Bourgeois Orphanage Basel
- Information on the organ of the orphanage church (former Carthusian monastery) Basel in the private organ directory Switzerland-Liechtenstein
Individual evidence
- ^ Sönke Lorenz , Oliver Auge, Robert Zagolla: Books, Libraries and Writing Culture of the Carthusians: Festgabe for the 65th birthday of Edward Potkowski . Steiner Verlag, 2002, p. 21
- ↑ EA Sückelberg: The dead shields of Carthusian in Basel. Retrieved May 17, 2020 .
- ↑ site Altbasel
Coordinates: 47 ° 33 ′ 29 " N , 7 ° 35 ′ 47" E ; CH1903: 611 874 / two hundred sixty-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-four