Kreuzkloster Gotha

Gotha around 1730 (view from the north); lower right the former monastery area with the Katharinenkirche (number 16)

The Monastery of the Holy Cross (Latin monasterium Sancti Crucis ) was a monastery of the Cistercians in Gotha in Thuringia from 1216/51 to 1524.

location

The monastery was first located in the city at Sundhäuser Tor on Jüdenstraße , (around the later Augustinian Church ). In 1255 the nuns moved in front of the city walls at Brühler Tor (today between Eisenacher and Bohnstedtstraße). Nothing is left of this system.

history

The monastery was probably founded around 1216 (or 1251?). In 1251 it was moved to the city gates. 1258 Augustinian hermits came to the previous location .

In 1519 the facilities were badly damaged by fire, and in 1524 the monastery was closed.

Further development

The buildings that had been transferred to the city were demolished by 1542 and replaced by the “Alter Gottesacker” cemetery . The St. Katharinenkirche (garrison church) built there in 1656 was also demolished in the late 19th century.

Today there is a school and the public swimming pool in this area.

literature

Hans Peter Schmit: Holy Cross Monastery Gotha. History 1250-1525 . In: Germania Benedictina 4.1. The monasteries and nunneries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 2011, pp. 824-838.
Johann Heinrich Möller: Monasteries in Gotha. In: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Antiquity 4, 1860/1861, pp. 45–112 (Kreuzkloster), 257–318 (Augustinian monastery). Reprint: Rockstuhl Verlag, Bad Langensalza 2012 (with abbess list) ( Google Book , ThULB )

Collective works

Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 54 B.
Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 499.

Web links

50.950619 10.69577Coordinates: 50 ° 57 ′ 2.2 " N , 10 ° 41 ′ 44.8" E