Komturhof Utterode

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The Komturhof Utterode is a listed four-sided courtyard and a testimony to the Knights Templar in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

location

The former Komturhof Utterode is now part of the Sollstedt community . It is located on the southwestern edge of the Nordhausen district and is about two kilometers south of the Sollstedt location on the 2049 road to Deuna .

history

The Knights Templar was represented in Thuringia with its own branch on the outskirts of the former imperial city of Nordhausen - called Am Hagen . The Knights Templar became the owner of several properties and places through donations and purchases in the 13th century. On the outskirts of the Dün near Bleicherode , the Guthenrode settlement was one of these donations and, thanks to its convenient location, was chosen as the founding site for a Komturhof to be built there . The remains of a Romanesque chapel, still recognizable in the 19th century, date from this time.

With the persecution and dissolution of the Templar Order, which began in 1307, at the instigation of Pope Clement V, the possessions previously belonging to the Templars came to the Order of St. John - these were already represented in Erfurt and Weissensee .

Count Dietrich and Heinrich von Hohnstein were declared supporters of the Order of St. John . They also served as mediators for the order of knights, so with their help a part of the former Templar property came to the Ilfeld Monastery . A significant part, which also included the castle-like Komturhof, remained with the counts and was handed over to the von Bodenhausen family as a fief in the 15th century .

At the end of 1816, the Utterode suburb came to the later Grafschaft Hohenstein district of the Prussian province of Saxony .

In the 19th century there was a chief forester's house in Utterode. Until his death in 2017, the artist Heinz Scharr lived and worked in the Komturhof, which he acquired in 1975 and converted into a house and studio.

literature

  • Julius Schmidt: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the County of Hohenstein . Ed .: Historical Commission of the Province of Saxony. XII. Notebook. Hall a. d.Saale 1889, Utterode, p. 167-169 .
  • Peter Kuhlbrodt: From the Templerhof to the collection courtyard of the Ilfeld monastery and to the post office ... (as digital copy) (PDF; 17 kB)

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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 '53 "  N , 10 ° 31' 42.9"  E