Trostadt Monastery

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Trostadt Monastery

The former monastery Trostadt - even Neuzelle called - was a choir convent of Premonstratensian whose structural remains in Trostadt , district of the municipality Reurieth in Hildburghausen in Thuringia , are to be found.

location

Trostadt Monastery and today's town of Trostadt are located on the upper reaches of the Werra , about seven kilometers west of the district town of Hildburghausen . The place is on the western edge of the valley, already in a flood-prone location, barely two meters above the Werra floodplain. Some of the buildings in the village date from the time of the former monastery, but only a few remains of the sacred buildings have survived.

history

The Counts of Henneberg had been sponsors of the Premonstratensian Order in Thuringia since 1130 and enabled the establishment of a double monastery in Veßra in 1131, also through generous donations . As a “consideration”, Veßra Monastery was designated as the home monastery of the counts and, from 1182, was also used for their burial place. Veßra Monastery was consecrated in 1138 by Bishop Otto II of Bamberg .

A fire that broke out in the Veßra monastery grounds in 1175 was taken as an opportunity by the order's leadership to abolish the existing double monastery in Veßra and to establish a separate branch for the women choirs. For this new religious house, the site of the existing Trostadt settlement was chosen, about three kilometers east of Veßra. There was probably already a farm yard belonging to the monastery, because a document was recorded as early as 795 in Trosnastete .

This new foundation was called Neuzelle in short and served now as a widow's home and training place for the henneberg nobility.

The Trostadt monastery was under the protection of the Henneberg counts; it was represented in church matters by the abbot of the Veßra monastery. The Premonstratensian choir women came to numerous goods and properties in the Henneberger Land through foundations and donations. In 1244 another fire, this time in the walls of Trostadt Monastery, destroyed the construction work that had been carried out so far.

From the middle of the 14th century, the choir women had to be punished for decreasing monastic discipline. At the same time, the Counts of Henneberg like to use the monastery's savings to be able to settle their own debts, as collateral and often with a lower value, the monastery was given further land and rights of use.

When the unrest of the Peasants' War spread to the Werra Valley, the Trostadt monastery was evacuated, all women choir fled to the town of Schleusingen and the monastery treasure found its way into the protective walls of the nearby Bertholdsburg . As a precaution, a guard team specially commissioned by the count was sent to Trostadt to protect the monastery grounds from looting and devastation. Unfortunately, these mercenaries found a large number of full beer kegs there. In place of the peasant heaps, looters from Themar and some neighboring villages arrived at the monastery after they had learned of the departure of the choir wives and now wanted to steal “abandoned property”. The drunkards' protection force is said not to have lifted a hand, but the destruction in Trostadt was limited. After the defeat of the farmers, the women choir took their Trostadt monastery back into possession. The next threat came unexpectedly, as their guardian, Count Georg Ernst von Henneberg-Schleusingen (1511–1583) had converted to Protestantism in 1544 . In the course of the Second Margravial War , Trostadt Monastery was attacked again in 1579, and the last women choirs left the Henneberg area for good with the consent of their bishop.

A manor was created from the secularized monastery. The Veßra and Trostadt monasteries continued their tradition as educational institutions with the Henneberg High School founded in Schleusingen in 1577 .

Web links

Commons : Trostadt Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As early as 1137 the General Chapter of the Premonstratensian Order decided on the separation of the double monasteries
  2. ^ Trostadt. In: Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Hrsg.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 , p. 445.
  3. ^ Paul Georgi: Convent Veßra . In: The Thuringian Flag. Monthly magazine for the Central German homeland . Issue 6. Gustav Neuenhahn, Jena 1939, p. 246-248 .
  4. ↑ Paul Georgi: The Trostadt Choir Women's Monastery . In: The Thuringian Flag. Monthly magazine for the Central German homeland . Issue 3. Gustav Neuenhahn, Jena 1939, p. 117-119 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 27 '54.3 "  N , 10 ° 38' 27.7"  E