Worbis Monastery

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Worbis Monastery with Antonius Church on the day of the Pope's visit in Eichsfeld , 23 September 2011

The Worbis Monastery was a Cistercian monastery from 1311 to 1540 and the Franciscan monastery in Worbis in Thuringia from 1667 to 1824 .

history

Trace (1753) of an imprint of the seal of the Cistercian convent of St. Petri on a document from 1357. The picture of the apostle Peter with key and gospel book on the altar of St. Peter's Church surrounds the inscription: S [IGILLVM] CO [N] VENT [VS] ECCLESIE S [ANC] T [I] PETRI I [N] MAR [CH] TWOR [BE] Z [E]  - "Seal of the monastery of St. Petri Church in Marktworbis".

Cistercian convent of Worbis

Friedrich Graf von Beichlingen (* 1280) founded the Cistercian convent of St. Petrus near the already existing St. Petri Church in Worbis, which was settled by the monasteries of Beuren and Anrode . In 1525 the monastery was destroyed in the Peasants' War and officially dissolved in 1540.

Franciscan monastery of Worbis

In 1667 it was repopulated by the Franciscans and existed until 1824. From 1668 to 1670, reconstruction work was carried out on the monastery building. With the help of the master builder Antonio Petrini , the building, consecrated in 1678 and rebuilt in Baroque style in 1765 and by the Franciscans Br. Cornelius Schmitt [commissioned builder], Br. Hyazinth Wiegand from Gerstengrund in the Rhön [deputy. Master builder, "Schrinner" / carpenter, design of the pulpit and other interior fittings] and Br. Wenzeslaus Marx from Leitmeritz an der Elbe [b. September 28, 1711, died on October 3, 1773 at the age of 62 in the Worbis monastery, creator of the Franciscan figures of saints] restored monastery church of St. Antonius , still a jewel of Eichsfeld today and every June destination of the Antonius pilgrimage. From 1670 the monastery in Worbis also served the training of religious priests, u. a. from the Franciscan province "Thuringia" [Central Hammelburg and Limburg]. Many of the monastery's padres were employed as pastoral workers in the villages of Eichsfeld. When the Eichsfeld [belonged to the Archbishopric Kur-Mainz] by the Kingdom of Prussia , the monastery was not immediately closed, but was not allowed to accept any new members. In 1824 the monastery was finally closed and the few remaining padres were still allowed to live in the monastery buildings. The monastery church was given to the Catholic community of Worbis.

Re-use from 1824 until today

From 1825 to 1848 there was a forced labor institution of the Prussian state in the monastery area. The institution was designed for 70 male and 30 female inmates. The district extended over the districts of Worbis , Heiligenstadt (without the city of Heiligenstadt) and Mühlhausen (without the city of Mühlhausen). The supervisory authority was the district assemblies of the 3 districts and on their behalf the district administrator of the district of Worbis. As a result of the unrest in 1848, the forced labor facility was closed.

From 1863 to 1994 the Worbis District Court (later the District Court) and the notary's office were housed in the buildings. After fundamental renovation and renovation work, parts of the Leinefelde-Worbis city administration will move in here. Of the originally medieval buildings, only the remains of the cloister and the well house are left.

literature

  • Gerhard Schlegel: Repertory of the Cistercians in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . Bernardus-Verlag, Langwaden, 1998.
  • Johann Wolf: Memories of the city of Worbis and its surroundings. With 40 documents , Göttingen 1818, pp. 64–70 .
  • Gerhard Jaritz: Ten years after it was founded, the forced labor facility in Worbis was stormed. In: Eichsfelder Heimatzeitschrift, issue 5, May 2002, Verlag Mecke Duderstadt, p. 161

Manual literature

  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking, Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection , Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 54B.
  • Sebastian Brunner (Ed.), Ein Cistercienserbuch , Vienna, Woerl, 1881 / Paderborn, Salzwasser, 2013, pp. 644–645.
  • Bernard Peugniez , Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, p. 502.
  • Peter Pfister , monastery guide of all Cistercian monasteries in German-speaking countries , 2nd edition, Lindenberg, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, 1998, p. 514.

Web links

Commons : Kloster Worbis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Handbook of the Province of Saxony 1843. Magdeburg and Salzwedel 1843, p. 363

Coordinates: 51 ° 25 ′ 4.7 ″  N , 10 ° 22 ′ 2.5 ″  E