Monastery Church (Vacha)
The monastery church in Vacha in the Wartburg district in Thuringia is an Evangelical-Lutheran church that is used as a chapel for the surrounding cemetery. The building is rebuilt, the choir of a Gothic Servite - monastery church , whose other parts were demolished after the lifting of the Convention.
history
Before 1339 a Servite monastery was founded in Mariengart near Vacha. In 1368 it was moved to its present location in front of the medieval city wall; Mariengart remained a branch. The monastery church was completed around 1400.
During the Peasants' War in 1525, insurgent peasants invaded the monastery. Prior Peter von Aschenberg signed the Twelve Articles . Two years later, Philip of Hesse had all monasteries in his domain abolished. The convent buildings in Vacha were demolished. As the second church after the Johanneskirche , the church was preserved for Protestant worship. The monastery courtyard became the municipal cemetery.
One aisle of the church was lost in the Seven Years' War . In 1877/78 the rest of the nave was demolished because it was in disrepair; the only remaining choir with side chapel has been restored. Significant wall paintings from 1472 - Marienleben - were rediscovered and uncovered. Several late medieval epitaphs also testify to the history of the church .
Since 2003, the former monastery church has been the end point of the Thuringian section of the ecumenical pilgrimage through central Germany from Görlitz to Vacha.
literature
- Waldemar Küther : Vacha and his Servite monastery in the Middle Ages . Cologne, Vienna 1971. ISBN 978-3-412-10571-6
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Church on salzungen.elkth-online.de ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 4, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 27.8 ″ N , 10 ° 1 ′ 6.5 ″ E