Teistungenburg Monastery
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 51.4 ″ N , 10 ° 15 ′ 51.9 ″ E The Teistungenburg Monastery is a former Cistercian convent near Teistungen in the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia .
history
Founded as a subsidiary of the Beuren monastery in 1260 for ten nuns, the monastery gained its independence from Beuren in the late 13th century. In 1525 the monastery was almost completely destroyed during the Peasants' War, and the nuns fled to Duderstadt. The Thirty Years' War also hit the monastery, which was completely impoverished after it was sacked in 1643. Rebuilding began in 1720 and the monastery church of St. Peter and Paul was consecrated in 1724. In March 1809 the entire complex was sold as part of compensation payments, on October 16, 1809 the last two nuns left the monastery on the instructions of the authorities of the Kingdom of Westphalia , which ended its existence for good.
Most of the monastery buildings were demolished in 1975 because of their proximity to the inner-German border. Only the monastery wall, consisting mainly of white sandstone, and a cattle barn remained.
A large part of the old monastery archive is now administered in the Saxony-Anhalt state archive .
After the fall of the 1990s, the Teistungenburg family and leisure park was built on the 28 hectare site. A water park, a hotel, a culture hall and a fallow deer enclosure opened here in 1996, surrounded by the restored monastery walls. Until 1996 the amusement park experienced several changes of operator.
Abbesses
The following abbesses are proven:
- 1547–1554 Anna Hentze
- 1556–1560 Gertrud Schreibers
- 1560–1583 Margarethe Neuroth
- 1583–1623 Marina Ziegler
- 1522–1526 Christina von Bellowitz
- 1627–1630 Sabina von Fischborn
- 1630–1663 Cordula Seliger
- 1664–1686 Klara Zwingmann
- 1686–1714 Sabrina von Horn
- 1716–1745 Maria Magdalena Döring
- 1745–1762 Eugenia Fritz
- 1762–1786 Maria Pauline Diedrich
- 1787–1804 Aloisia Fritz
- 1804–1809 Bernada Reinhold
Todays use
Victor's Residenz-Hotels GmbH has been operating the facility since April 1996. It is currently used as a conference, sports and active hotel in the 4-star category. The hotel is called “Victor's Residenz-Hotel Teistungenburg” after the former monastery. The Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld and the educational facility at the Grenzlandmuseum are located directly next to the hotel .
literature
Helmut Godehardt: From the history of the former Cistercian convent Teistungenburg in Eichsfeld. Publisher Mecke Duderstadt 1999
Web links
- Performance
- Victor's Residenz-Hotel Teistungenburg
- Grenzlandmuseum Eichsfeld with educational facility
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Sacrifice man : shaping the calibration field. St. Benno-Verlag Leipzig and Verlag FW Cordier Heiligenstadt 1968
- GEO Saison, November 2002 edition, p. 32.