Wahlshausen Monastery
The Wahlshausen monastery (also: Walshausen ) was a monastery from 1142 to 1527, first of the Benedictine nuns , from 1293 of the Cistercians and from 1310 of the Cistercians in Wilhelmshausen , municipality of Fuldatal , in Hesse .
history
The Bishop of Mainz, Gerhard II von Eppstein , placed the nunnery, which was built between 1142 and 1150, under the supervision of Hardehausen Monastery in 1293 . In 1310 the monastery was converted into a Cistercian priory with the help of Riddagshausen Monastery , which was dissolved by Landgrave Philipp in 1527 , but served as a refuge for monks and nuns until 1570. From 1572, Landgrave Wilhelm IV converted the monastery into the village of Wilhelmshausen named after him. Today only the Protestant parish church "Marienbasilika", which emerged from the Romanesque monastery church, is left of the monastery (recently renovated).
literature
- Annette von Boetticher: Wahlshausen, Wilhelmshausen. In: Germania Benedictina 4. The monastery and nunnery of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia . 2011, pp. 1577–1587.
- Church in the village past and present. Symposium on the sponsorship award for Hessian local history. Wiesbaden 2007, pp. 67-96.
Manual literature
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 54 B.
- Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 551.
- Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 219.
Web links
- Church side to the Marienbasilika in Wilhelmshausen, richly illustrated
- Entry in the Cistercian project of the photographer Carsten Gier
- Entry of the Certosa of Florence, with illustrations and localization
Coordinates: 51 ° 24 ′ 12.3 " N , 9 ° 34 ′ 49.9" E