List of cultural monuments in monastery book

The list of cultural monuments in Klosterbuch contains the cultural monuments in the Leisnig district of Klosterbuch that are listed in the official list of monuments of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony .

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Monastery book

image	designation	location	Dating	description	ID
	Residential house in open development	Monastery book (map)	re. 1889	Located in the middle of the monastery complex, villa-like residential building of significance for the townscape and the history of its development. Two storeys, plastered facade, brick masonry, mansard hipped roof, listed in the former list of monuments under the building name Maylust . The name is obviously derived from the Minkwitz chief forester Oswald May, who had viewpoints, hiking trails and forest park-like facilities built in the vicinity of Klosterbuch from 1854 to 1856. Under Maylust a viewpoint opposite the monastery grounds at will Fir Hill called. It can be assumed that the building name in the old list of monuments was wrong.	08967621
	Road bridge over the Mulde	Monastery book (map)	re. 1889	Three arch bridge, testimony to the local and traffic history. The bridge with three arch-shaped vaults has a total length of 77.5 m. The arches consist of a row of visible natural stone blocks on the outside. In between, conglomerate concrete forms the vault. The ledge stones in the cap area are made of sandstone. The Cyclops masonry on the front sides of the bridges was made from Leisniger quartz porphyry. The protruding pillars are round on both the upstream and downstream sides. The pier heads located at the height of the fighter were covered with sandstone slabs. The river is spanned by three arches with clear widths of 19.5 m, 21.0 m and 19.5 m. The arch width is 5.8 m.	08967613
More pictures	Individual monuments of the Cistercian monastery Buch: Complex of the former Cistercian monastery Buch with manor chapel (emerged from the former monastery church), cloister and covent buildings, former abbot house with remains of the infirmary building, the ruins of the former malt house, the former Netzehaus (later forge), the Farm buildings II and III, the cowshed and the monastery walls	Monastery book 1 (map)	End of the 13th century (infirmary building)	Unique, spacious former monastery complex with supra-regional importance for the history of architecture and art and the Saxon cultural landscape (see also Obj. 09303724). History: The former monastery is located about four kilometers east of the town of Leisnig on the right bank of the Freiberger Mulde, which here forms a distinctive loop within a wide, trough-shaped valley. An exact year of foundation is not known. The foundation could probably have been between 1188 and 1190. It is known that on August 17, 1192, the convent with twelve monks from the Sittichenbach monastery near Eisleben moved into the existing monastery complex. The founder of the monastery was Burgrave Heinrich III. from Leisnig. On December 1, 1192, the founding of the monastery was officially confirmed by Emperor Heinrich VI. There was no previous system. The village of Buch is said to have been at the site of the monastery, which was newly laid out north, above the edge of the valley, as Altenhof. The new monastery was subordinated to the patronage of the Holy Virgin Mary and St. Bernard and St. Aegidius. In 1525, with the death of the last abbot, Antonius Dytz, the monastery was closed. Elector Johann prevented the election of a new abbot and in 1526 he confiscated the entire monastery property. After secularization, the monastery initially remained in electoral possession, from 1527 Caspar von Kitzscher acted as administrator. The remaining monks were free to stay or to be resigned. In 1544 the monastery office was withdrawn and merged with the office of Leisnig. When Leisnig was incorporated into the new Albertine Electorate of Saxony, ruled by Moritz, after the Schmalkaldic War, the former monastery and its outbuildings and goods were given to the newly founded Princely School Grimma in 1550 for economic equipment. The church, abbey building, fisherman's house, kitchen, hay barn and two gardens were not sold. Soon, however, irregularities and the sale of parts of the property forced the elector to intervene. August withdrew the property again from the Princely School, reversed the dishonest resales and converted the establishment into a manor based on written documents, which he sold to Hans von Schleinitz. Again, the church and the closed area were initially unaffected, whether for reasons of unprofitability or other considerations, this is unknown. The first signs of decay must have occurred on the central monastery buildings as early as the middle of the century, and the more or less legal extraction of building materials cannot be ruled out. At the end of the 16th century, probably under the owner Johann von Zeschau, the abbot's house was converted into the manor of the manor. At this time, work was evidently already being carried out on the new manor chapel, which - quite deliberately - was built directly above the eastern parts of the monastery church. Demolition material from medieval buildings was definitely used for this. The question of ownership was probably resolved by 1600. During the Thirty Years War, the manor complex was looted and damaged several times. Apparently this resulted in the bankruptcy of the landlord Johann Christoph von Zeschau. In 1651, Elector Johann Georg I tried to sell the property. It was not until 1663 that it was auctioned again at the Grimma State School. From then on, the manor leased them with all their rights. The consecration of the manor chapel, documented for April 14, 1678, was evidently the re-consecration after the war damage had been repaired and the property was transferred to new ownership. With the decline of the church and the subsequent enclosure building, the structural focus had shifted to Easter. The center was now the large estate with the manor house, around which the most important buildings and facilities were grouped. There were gardens in place of the cloister. The elongated chapter house served as a granary. In 1818 the vaults were converted into a cowshed and partitions were removed. A brewery was set up in the former infirmary next to the abbot's house. In 1836 the complex fell again to the rulership of the state and was given the status of a royal chamber property, the jurisdiction - until then exercised by the Grimma school authority - was henceforth transferred to the Leisnig office. In 1873 the Leipzig builder Hugo Altendorff renovated the manor chapel. In 1882, a new stable was installed in the chapter house by master builder Julius Temper without taking the medieval vaults into account. In 1895, instead of several small farm buildings, a new large barn was built on the north side of the courtyard (later used as a cowshed), which still characterizes the building ensemble to a considerable extent. After the Second World War and the land reform, the estate first came into the possession of the SED and was converted into a state-owned estate (VEG) in 1955. The period that followed was not characterized by careful handling of the old building fabric. Only in the late 1980s did a change gradually set in, which was also borne by the realization that the monastery buildings no longer offered any prospects for a modern farm. The urge to deal appropriately with the historic site and the realignment of the estate, which emerged after 1990 in particular, soon led to its separation from the traditional site. In 1993 the city of Leisnig first became the owner of the monastery complex, and since 1997 the property and building have belonged to the Friends of the Buch monastery. Thanks to the preparatory work of the Leisniger History and Local History Association, but with a new intensity thanks to the effectiveness of the newly founded Friends' Association, the former monastery was able to establish itself as a much-visited and nationally known cultural and event center, which is also committed to conveying regional and cultural history feels. History of architecture and art: Stiftsanlage: The structural development of the monastery complex took place in a loop of the Freiberg Mulde, directly on the bank of a larger river, which was unusual for Cistercian monasteries in view of the risk of flooding. The monastery grounds were surrounded by water on three sides, only in the north there was a road connection to the surrounding area and to Leisnig. The gatehouse was also located at this point, directly above today's street, in the immediate vicinity of what would later become the forge. Two paths led from the gatehouse into the monastery, one in a south-westerly direction and another south-eastwards to the area of ​​today's manor. The church stood north of the enclosure, the southern parts of which reached close to the river bank. To the east of it rises the late medieval abbot's house, to which the building of the infirmary, albeit older in substance, is attached to the east. Farm buildings were located south and west of the enclosure, along the monastery wall that was still preserved here. Above all, the brewery, malt house and mill should be mentioned. A little to the north of it stretched a building that was only archaeologically verifiable with a small chapel, perhaps a guest house. Church: Monastery church, built from the end of the 12th century. Of the former church building, only the southern and northern walls of the sanctuary, two side chapels with a straight end and barrel vaulting in the south, and one in the north, parts of the east walls of both transept arms, the south and west walls of the south transept, and the south and west walls of the south transept are left of the former church building as rising masonry in fragmentary form Parts of the south wall of the south aisle. Stylistic comparisons show that the church in Buch belongs to the so-called "second generation" of Cistercian churches with regard to its eastern parts, that is, it could have started around 1190. According to the results of the excavations of 1902/03 (Gurlitt, Köhler, Fischer) and the pillar foundations and the west end of the nave, it was a three-aisled, cross-shaped pillar basilica, probably in the bound system. The nave had five almost square yokes. The sanctuary, crossing and the transept arms were probably groin-vaulted, as were the side aisles, whose vaults with shield arches have been preserved. The central nave probably also had a vault. Fragments of architectural ornamentation indicate that the nave was built in the second quarter of the 13th century, but its vaulting could not have been created until around 1300 or was completely renewed during this time, as a corresponding keystone suggests. The forms of the sacred building are simple and of noble restraint, elaborate structures cannot be proven. Several capitals have survived, including a. a very high quality, three-part piece with slightly rolled foliage from around 1220, probably from a corner situation, as well as chalice-shaped console stones as support for vaulting ribs and some keystones from different style periods. Gutskapelle: New building probably around 1600 with the main room above the choir square of the medieval monastery church and a west-facing chancel within the former crossing. It also includes both southern and one of the northern side choirs and on the courtyard side in the high gable roof has a dwelling with a volute gable in the style of the Renaissance. Crowned with a 19th century wooden bell tower above the north gable. 1678 consecration of the manor chapel, but it was very likely a re-consecration after the destruction of the Thirty Years War. Inside, a simple hall with galleries on the east and south sides. Cross rib vaults in post-Gothic forms under the galleries and in the sanctuary. Tracery windows in the chancel also post-Gothic. The pulpit and baptismal font were probably rebuilt around 1600. Enclosure and convent building: The enclosure was built south of the church, in the east with the elongated and still striking chapter house, the refectory in the south and the cellar house and conversing house in the west. The chapter house, built from 1192 to the middle of the 13th century, the only part of the cloister building that is still preserved in its entire size - contained a series of originally two-aisled rooms on the ground floor. From north to south were the sacristy, chapter house, auditorium ?, passage to the abbot house, brother hall? as well as an indefinable room with a fireplace, perhaps a scriptorium or parlatorium. At its southern end is the shaft of the Necessarium on the upper floor, which is located over a ditch fed by the hollow. The rooms in the middle area were destroyed in the 19th century by installing stables, only the sacristy, the southern part of the Brothers' Hall, which was separated off in the 16th century, the heatable room in the south and the access shaft have been preserved. Impressive architectural findings testify to the former dormitory on the upper floor. a. Window arches, niches with remnants of wall painting and fragments of a floor screed. A number of very interesting wall designs in the monks' cells should be emphasized, for example. B. in extended window arches. Paintings and incised drawings, some of them geometrical in nature, evidently tell of the very individual designs of the respective cell dwellers and thus of previously little known peculiarities of monastic life. In its first version, the dormitory probably had an open roof structure. Later it was given a wooden barrel vault, the gable connection of which is verifiable. The current roof structure comes from the 19th century. The chapter house was built in sections from 1192 until around the middle of the 13th century. In terms of art forms, the central pillars of the two southern rooms with their decorated chalice capitals are particularly noteworthy. To the east of the chapter house there was an archaeologically proven chapel with a three-sixth end, which was not built as a unit, so it was added later. Only very small remains of the foundation walls have survived from the refectory. Abbot's house and infirmary building: Due to its subsequent use as a mansion for the later manor, the abbot's house has been completely preserved. After dendrochronological studies of its roof structure, it was built in 1396. To the west, it adjoins the older infirmary building (probably built at the end of the 13th century) and includes its substance in its northern parts. The building itself is a two-story structure with a steep pitched roof. It got its current structural character in the simple forms of the late Renaissance around 1600. The pointed arch portal on the courtyard side, albeit in secondary use, as well as the ground floor windows on the south gable side and the roof truss have been preserved from the construction period. Its construction, spanning over 13 m, consists of rafters at an incline of 55 ° with two collar beam layers. The full rafters have central pillars that stand on a footstill and are attached to the rafters by means of hanging struts. A similar construction, only a few years older, can be found above the chapel of Mildenstein Castle in Leisnig. The chambers in the lower attic, which are partitioned off with decoratively painted, profiled planks, were built around 1600. On the upper floor there are two remarkable historical rooms with wooden ceilings, the so-called abbot's room, a late medieval plank room with deep, richly grooved ceiling beams and a room to the west with a painted wooden ceiling. Stylistically, both rooms point to the 15th century, but a development during the construction period cannot be ruled out. Exact investigations are still pending. The "Green Room", the most representative room on the ground floor, dates from the 16th century, its current coffered ceiling is evidence of a renovation in the middle of the 17th century. In the northern area of ​​the abbot's house, the dormitory of the infirmary has opened, which has apparently been given up. A wide, high arch on its east wall still announces the connection to the preserved chapel room with its east-facing choir. The two-bay, rib-vaulted room of the Infirmary Chapel has a straight end to the east with a pointed arch window. In addition to the altar foundation, remains of a decorative floor made of red and black ceramic tiles as well as colored wall frames and painted consecration crosses have been preserved in it. The floor and the wall frames, which are kept in red and white tones, were reconstructed according to findings. The vaulting of the ribs and the keystones with strongly developed vine leaf reliefs point to the late 13th century (1270/80). On the east wall there is a piscine with a pointed arch. Remains of the former windows have been preserved in the surrounding walls. The simple arched portal on the south side of the infirmary was originally probably further to the west. The infirmary was connected to the chapter house by a long corridor. Its foundations, the quality of which indicate a vault and two-storey structure, were excavated in the area of ​​today's manor. Farm building mill: In the west of the monastery complex, on the Mulde, once stood the mill, of which nothing has survived. Successor facilities existed unused until the floods of 2002, a possible auxiliary building has been preserved to this day. Malzhaus: Just a few meters from the mill location, leaning against the southern monastery wall, there is a small, ruinous building with a striking gable, the malt house, possibly built in the 14th century. The actual brewery was located to the east. After the brewery was moved to the former infirmary in 1797, the malt house served as a syringe house. Former Netzhaus, later forge: To the east of the former gatehouse, built directly on the monastery wall, a small structure has been preserved, which is called a Netzhaus in 1651, later called a forge. During the time of the monastery, as the excavated walls show, it extended considerably further south and was probably only shortened around 1600. Its medieval purpose is unknown. Further farm buildings were built with the farm in the south of the farm. Cowshed: On the site plan from 1817 there was a barn measuring 40 × 13 m and a wagon shed measuring 12 m × 8 m at its current location. In 1531 inventories, a building called "Naues Haus" is mentioned for the first time in the same place, which is no longer mentioned in inventories from 1678 onwards. Today's cowshed was built in 1890. Farm building II: Already used as a bakery and bathhouse in the 16th century, used as a distillery in the 19th century, for which new vaults were built in 1837. Medieval building remains were probably included. Farm building III: built in 1803 as a stable and shed building with a bakery. Sources and references: Delang, Steffen: unpublished. Manuscript for the Saxon monastery book, in preparation. at the ISGV, is expected to appear. 2016. Delang, Steffen, Franziska Koch, Heinrich Magirius and others: Das Cistercienserkloster Buch. In: Workbooks of the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony. Edited by the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Beucha: Sax-Verlag, 2006.	08967619
More pictures	Unity of the Cistercian monastery Buch, complex of the former Cistercian monastery Buch with the individual monuments: manor chapel (emerged from the former monastery church), cloister and covent buildings, former abbot house with remains of the infirmary building, the ruins of the former malt house, the former Netzehaus (later forge) Farm buildings II and III, the cowshed and the monastery walls	Monastery book 1 (map)	around 1192	Unique, extensive former monastery complex of supraregional importance for the history of architecture and art and the Saxon cultural landscape (see also Obj. 08967619). History: The former monastery is located about four kilometers east of the town of Leisnig on the right bank of the Freiberger Mulde, which here forms a distinctive loop within a wide, trough-shaped valley. An exact year of foundation is not known. The foundation could probably have been between 1188 and 1190. It is reported that on August 17, 1192 the convent with 12 monks from the monastery Sittichenbach b. Eisleben moved into the then existing monastery complex. The founder of the monastery was Burgrave Heinrich III. from Leisnig. On December 1, 1192, the founding of the monastery was officially confirmed by Emperor Heinrich VI. There was no previous system. The village of Buch is said to have been at the site of the monastery, which was newly laid out north, above the edge of the valley, as Altenhof. The new monastery was subordinated to the patronage of the Holy Virgin Mary and St. Bernard and St. Aegidius. In 1525, with the death of the last abbot, Antonius Dytz, the monastery was closed. Elector Johann prevented the election of a new abbot and in 1526 he confiscated the entire monastery property. After secularization, the monastery initially remained in electoral possession, from 1527 Caspar von Kitzscher acted as administrator. The remaining monks were free to stay or to be resigned. In 1544 the monastery office was withdrawn and merged with the office of Leisnig. When Leisnig was incorporated into the new Albertine Electorate of Saxony, ruled by Moritz, after the Schmalkaldic War, the former monastery, including its outbuildings and goods, was given to the newly founded Princely School Grimma in 1550 for economic equipment. The church, abbey building, fisherman's house, kitchen, hay barn and two gardens were not sold. Soon, however, irregularities and the sale of parts of the property forced the elector to intervene. August withdrew the property again from the Princely School, reversed the dishonest resales and converted the establishment into a manor based on written documents, which he sold to Hans von Schleinitz. Again, the church and the closed area were initially unaffected, whether for reasons of unprofitability or other considerations, this is unknown. The first signs of decay must have occurred on the central monastery buildings as early as the middle of the century, and the more or less legal extraction of building materials cannot be ruled out. At the end of the 16th century, probably under the owner Johann von Zeschau, the abbot's house was converted into the manor of the manor. At this time, work was evidently already being carried out on the new manor chapel, which - quite deliberately - was built directly above the eastern parts of the monastery church. Demolition material from medieval buildings was definitely used for this. The question of ownership was probably resolved by 1600. During the Thirty Years War, the manor complex was looted and damaged several times. Apparently this resulted in the bankruptcy of the landlord Johann Christoph von Zeschau. In 1651, Elector Johann Georg I tried to sell the property. It was not until 1663 that it was auctioned again at the Grimma State School. From then on, the manor leased them with all their rights. The consecration of the manor chapel, documented for April 14, 1678, was evidently the re-consecration after the war damage had been repaired and the property was transferred to new ownership. With the decline of the church and the subsequent enclosure building, the structural focus had shifted to Easter. The center was now the large estate with the manor house, around which the most important buildings and facilities were grouped. There were gardens in place of the cloister. The elongated chapter house served as a granary. In 1818 the vaults were converted into a cowshed and partitions were removed. A brewery was set up in the former infirmary next to the abbot's house. In 1836 the complex fell again to the rulership of the state and was given the status of a royal chamber property, the jurisdiction - until then exercised by the Grimma school authority - was henceforth transferred to the Leisnig office. In 1873 the Leipzig builder Hugo Altendorff renovated the manor chapel. In 1882, a new stable was installed in the chapter house by master builder Julius Temper without taking the medieval vaults into account. In 1895, instead of several small farm buildings, a new large barn was built on the north side of the courtyard (later used as a cowshed), which still characterizes the building ensemble to a considerable extent. After the Second World War and the land reform, the estate first came into the possession of the SED and was converted into a state-owned estate (VEG) in 1955. The period that followed was not characterized by careful handling of the old building fabric. Only in the late 1980s did a change gradually set in, which was also borne by the realization that the monastery buildings no longer offered any prospects for a modern farm. The urge to deal appropriately with the historic site and the realignment of the estate, which emerged after 1990 in particular, soon led to its separation from the traditional site. In 1993 the city of Leisnig first became the owner of the monastery complex, and since 1997 the property and building have belonged to the Friends of the Buch monastery. Thanks to the preparatory work of the Leisniger History and Local History Association, but with a new intensity thanks to the effectiveness of the newly founded Friends' Association, the former monastery was able to establish itself as a much-visited and nationally known cultural and event center, which is also committed to conveying regional and cultural history feels. History of architecture and art: Stiftsanlage: The structural development of the monastery complex took place in a loop of the Freiberg Mulde, directly on the bank of a larger river, which was unusual for Cistercian monasteries in view of the risk of flooding. The monastery grounds were surrounded by water on three sides, only in the north there was a road connection to the surrounding area and to Leisnig. The gatehouse was also located at this point, directly above today's street, in the immediate vicinity of what would later become the forge. Two paths led from the gatehouse into the monastery, one in a south-westerly direction and another south-eastwards to the area of ​​today's manor. The church stood north of the enclosure, the southern parts of which reached close to the river bank. To the east of it rises the late medieval abbot's house, to which the building of the infirmary, albeit older in substance, is attached to the east. Farm buildings were located south and west of the enclosure, along the monastery wall that was still preserved here. Above all, the brewery, malt house and mill should be mentioned. A little to the north of it stretched a building that was only archaeologically verifiable with a small chapel, perhaps a guest house. Church: Monastery church, built from the end of the 12th century Of the former church building, only the southern and northern walls of the sanctuary, two side chapels with a straight end and barrel vaulting in the south, and one in the north, parts of the east walls of both transept arms, the south and west walls of the south transept, and the south and west walls of the south transept are left of the former church building as rising masonry in fragmentary form Parts of the south wall of the south aisle. Stylistic comparisons show that the church in Buch belongs to the so-called "second generation" of Cistercian churches with regard to its eastern parts, that is, it could have started around 1190. According to the results of the excavations of 1902/03 (Gurlitt, Koehler, Fischer) and the foundations of piers and the western end of the nave, it was a three-aisled, cruciform pillar basilica, probably in the bound system. The nave had five almost square yokes. The sanctuary, crossing and the transept arms were probably groin-vaulted, as were the side aisles, whose vaults with shield arches have been preserved. The central nave probably also had a vault. Fragments of architectural ornamentation indicate that the nave was built in the second quarter of the 13th century, but its vaulting could not have been created until around 1300 or was completely renewed during this time, as a corresponding keystone suggests. The forms of the sacred building are simple and of noble restraint, elaborate structures cannot be proven. Several capitals have survived, including a very high-quality, three-part piece with slightly rolled foliage from around 1220, probably from a corner situation, as well as cup-shaped console stones as support for vaulting ribs and some keystones from different style periods. Gutskapelle: presumably new building around 1600 with the main room above the choir square of the medieval monastery church and a west-facing chancel within the former crossing. It also includes both southern and one of the northern side choirs and on the courtyard side in the high gable roof has a dwelling with a volute gable in the style of the Renaissance. Crowned with a 19th century wooden bell tower above the north gable. 1678 consecration of the manor chapel, but it was very likely a new consecration after the destruction of the Thirty Years War. Inside, a simple hall with galleries on the east and south sides. Cross rib vaults in post-Gothic forms under the galleries and in the sanctuary. Tracery windows in the chancel also post-Gothic. The pulpit and baptismal font were probably rebuilt around 1600. Enclosure and convent building: The enclosure was built south of the church, in the east with the elongated and still striking chapter house, the refectory in the south and the cellar house and conversing house in the west. The chapter house, built from 1192 to the middle of the 13th century, the only part of the cloister building that is still preserved in its entire size - contained a series of originally two-aisled rooms on the ground floor. From north to south were the sacristy, chapter house, auditorium ?, passage to the abbot house, brother hall? as well as an indefinable room with a fireplace, perhaps a scriptorium or parlatorium. At its southern end is the shaft of the Necessarium on the upper floor, which is located over a ditch fed by the hollow. The rooms in the middle area were destroyed in the 19th century by installing stables, only the sacristy, the southern part of the Brothers' Hall, which was separated off in the 16th century, the heatable room in the south and the access shaft have been preserved. Impressive architectural findings testify to the former dormitory on the upper floor. a. Window arches, niches with wall painting remains and fragments of a floor screed. A number of very interesting wall designs in the monks' cells should be emphasized, for example. B. in extended window arches. Paintings and incised drawings, some of them geometrical in nature, evidently tell of the very individual designs of the respective cell dwellers and thus of previously little known peculiarities of monastic life. In its first version, the dormitory probably had an open roof structure. Later it was given a wooden barrel vault, the gable connection of which is verifiable. The current roof structure comes from the 19th century. The chapter house was built in sections from 1192 until around the middle of the 13th century. In terms of art forms, the central pillars of the two southern rooms with their decorated chalice capitals are particularly noteworthy. To the east of the chapter house there was an archaeologically proven chapel with a three-sixth end, which was not built as a unit, so it was added later. Only very small remains of the foundation walls have survived from the refectory. Abbot's house and infirmary building: Due to its subsequent use as a mansion for the later manor, the abbot's house has been completely preserved. After dendrochronological studies of its roof structure, it was built in 1396. To the west, it adjoins the older infirmary building (probably built at the end of the 13th century) and includes its substance in its northern parts. The building itself is a two-story structure with a steep pitched roof. It got its current structural character in the simple forms of the late Renaissance around 1600. The pointed arch portal on the courtyard side, albeit in secondary use, as well as the ground floor windows on the south gable side and the roof truss have been preserved from the construction period. Its construction, spanning over 13 m, consists of rafters at an incline of 55 ° with two collar beam layers. The full rafters have central pillars that stand on a footstill and are attached to the rafters by means of hanging struts. A similar construction, only a few years older, can be found above the chapel of Mildenstein Castle in Leisnig. The chambers in the lower attic, divided with decoratively painted, profiled planks, were built around 1600. On the upper floor there are two remarkable historical rooms with wooden ceilings, the so-called abbot's room, a late medieval plank parlor with deep, richly grooved ceiling beams and a room adjoining to the west with one painted wooden ceiling. Stylistically, both rooms point to the 15th century, but a development during the construction period cannot be ruled out. Exact investigations are still pending. The "Green Room", the most representative room on the ground floor, dates from the 16th century, its current coffered ceiling is evidence of a renovation in the middle of the 17th century. In the northern area of ​​the abbot's house, the dormitory of the infirmary has opened, which has apparently been given up. A wide, high arch on its east wall still announces the connection to the preserved chapel room with its east-facing choir. The two-bay, rib-vaulted room of the Infirmary Chapel has a straight end to the east with a pointed arch window. In addition to the altar foundation, remains of a decorative floor made of red and black ceramic tiles as well as colored wall frames and painted consecration crosses have been preserved in it. The floor and the wall frames, which are kept in red and white tones, were reconstructed according to findings. The vaulting of the ribs and the keystones with strongly developed vine leaf reliefs point to the late 13th century (1270/80). On the east wall there is a piscine with a pointed arch. Remains of the former windows have been preserved in the surrounding walls. The simple arched portal on the south side of the infirmary was originally probably further to the west. The infirmary was connected to the chapter house by a long corridor. Its foundations, the quality of which indicate a vault and two-storey structure, were excavated in the area of ​​today's manor. Farm building: Mill: In the west of the monastery complex, on the Mulde, once stood the mill, of which nothing has survived. Successor facilities existed unused until the floods of 2002, a possible auxiliary building has been preserved to this day. Malzhaus: Just a few meters from the mill location, leaning against the southern monastery wall, there is a small, ruinous building with a striking gable, the malt house, possibly built in the 14th century. The actual brewery was located to the east. After the brewery was moved to the former infirmary in 1797, the malt house served as a syringe house. Former Netzhaus, later forge: To the east of the former gatehouse, built directly on the monastery wall, a small structure has been preserved, which is called a Netzhaus in 1651, later called a forge. During the time of the monastery, as the excavated walls show, it extended considerably further south and was probably only shortened around 1600. Its medieval purpose is unknown. Further farm buildings were built with the farm in the south of the farm. Cowshed: On the site plan from 1817 there was a barn measuring 40 × 13 m and a wagon shed measuring 12 m × 8 m at its current location. In 1531 inventories, a building called "Naues Haus" is mentioned for the first time in the same place, which is no longer mentioned in inventories from 1678 onwards. Today's cowshed was built in 1890. Farm building II: Already used as a bakery and bathhouse in the 16th century, used as a distillery in the 19th century, for which new vaults were built in 1837. Medieval building remains were probably included. Farm building III: built in 1803 as a stable and shed building with a bakery.	09303724
	Presumably building that used to belong to the mill	Monastery book 8 (at) (map)	1st half of the 19th century	Plastered building from the beginning of the 19th century, which was rebuilt at the end of the 19th century, of importance in terms of local history and character. Two-storey plastered building with a later added jamb floor and a gently sloping gable roof. Probably built in the first half of the 19th century as a two-storey quarry stone building with corner blocks. The original window frames were preserved. There is a doorway on the upper floor. There, too, window frames from the construction period were preserved. At the end of the 19th century there was an increase in storeys, bricked up, and a new, presumably flatter, gable roof was added. The building could have belonged to the former mill. In a chronicle in 1764 a grinding, cutting and oil mill is mentioned. In 1858 the manufacturer Gerlach acquired this mill, which then burned down in 1879. It was rebuilt as a cardboard factory. After being shut down in the meantime, it was operated until 1940. That year it burned down almost completely. Approx. In 1958, collapsed and dilapidated buildings were demolished. The plastered building that is preserved today may have belonged to the mill complex.	08967620
	Residential building, possibly a former ferry house	Monastery book 9 (map)	after 1821 according to miles sheet	Striking plastered building with original baroque roof structure and classicistic front door portal, of value in terms of local history. Two storeys, classical front door portal, original baroque roof truss	08967614
	Former monastery tavern	Monastery Book 23 (map)	1817, building permit 1798	Effective baroque building with a high hipped roof opposite the monastery complex, documentation and memorable value, of architectural and regional significance. Two floors, five axes on the upper floor, ground floor solid masonry and natural stone walls, front door with basket arch portal, crooked hip roof.	08967617
	Two residential buildings, former teachers' residences of the branch of the Princely School Grimma	Monastery book 24; 25 (card)	1846 (house at Klosterbuch 24)	Half-timbered buildings typical of the time and landscape in a location that characterizes the townscape directly opposite the monastery complex, of architectural and local importance. Residential house, number 24: Two storeys, upper floor visible framework, original half-hipped roof with brick roofing, ground floor mixed masonry, eight axes, according to the leaflet of the Central Saxony district office, built in 1846 for teachers and other staff from the rural princely school of Grimma, residential building, number 25, today office and Residential building: 1862 for teachers and staff of the agricultural princely school after the capacity of the other residential building was full, newly built (source: Leaflet LRA Central Saxony), two floors, upstairs five axes, ground floor quarry stone masonry, upstairs half-timbered partially rebuilt with adobe infill due to flooding badly damaged, probably partly rebuilt, During the Second World War, refugees were housed in the courtyard. After the end of the war, the monastery became a state-owned property. The half-timbered courtyard was attached. The houses were used as houses for the people's estate. Then accommodation for people without apartments. Private property since 2001. Badly affected by the floods in 2002, the half-timbered courtyard was rebuilt in accordance with the listed building standards.	08967616
	Former post office	Monastery book 31 (map)	re. 1895	Plastered building opposite the station, of value in terms of local history. Two storeys, four axes, plastered facade with plaster structure, natural stone base, cyclops masonry, sandstone cornice, vacant (2007, 2011), original: front door ?, staircase, very beautiful original windows (not preserved in 2011), some interior doors (probably hardly existent in 2011), Enclosure on the left and retaining wall made of quarry stone facing the mountain with mountain cellar (only mountain cellar monument)	09300750
	Reception building	Monastery book 32 (map)	1868	Well-preserved evidence of the Saxon railway history, of importance in terms of traffic and regional history. Two floors, plastered facade, rubble stone base, original: window, front door.	08967622

Scheergrund

image	designation	location	Dating	description	ID
	Hydroelectric power station Klosterbuch: Hydroelectric power station on the Mulde	Klosterbuch 41 (map)	1923-1925	Landscape-defining building complex with historical and documentation value, technical monument. Construction began in 1923, construction was carried out according to an emergency plan, which meant that numerous unemployed people were brought in for construction work. The Scheergrund power plant, which consists of three different buildings, was built as a run-of-river power plant. This means that only the power of flowing water was used. Due to this type of construction, the amount of electricity fluctuates with different amounts of water. Today WESAG, refurbished with permission under monument protection law, location between the Mulde and the railroad track. Two Kaplan turbines (800 kW and 300 kW.), Which drive synchronous generators, in the large machine house in the power plant. These turbines have adjustable impeller blades, with their help you can react optimally to fluctuating water levels. The hydropower plant with a water throughput of 34 m³ / s produces an annual average of 5,000 MWh of electrical energy. The hydropower plant has the largest roofed high weir in Europe (see Westewitz). The high weir served to provide the water flow rate required for the hydropower plant. The high weir and the hydropower plant were completely renovated from 1992 to 1994. (Monuments on the Muldental cycle path in the district of Döbeln. In: Monuments in the district of Döbeln. H. 9, 2008.) Consisting of three buildings, the machine house, the transformer house and an intermediate building between the two buildings, in which there is a battery room for emergencies, a workshop room and a social room is located. The construction costs of the entire complex amounted to 117,900 Reichsmarks. Construction period 1923 to 1925. In the vicinity of the power plant there is a two-family house for the machinists, which was built at the same time. Operating time from 1925 to 1946 relatively trouble-free. From April to June 1946 all machine and control equipment was expanded as a reparation payment to the Soviet Union. In 1953 a decision was made to restart the facility. The mechanical equipment had to be improvised, whereby the same amount of electricity could not be generated as in 1924. In 1955 electricity could be supplied again. 1992 Renovation of the hydropower plant and general overhaul of the entire technical system. 1993 to 1994 total renewal of the machine and control equipment.	08967675

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1. ↑ Sources and references: Delang, Steffen: unpublished. Manuscript for the Saxon monastery book, i. Preparation at the ISGV, is expected to appear. 2016. Delang, Steffen, Franziska Koch, Heinrich Magirius and others: Das Cistercienserkloster Buch. In: Workbooks of the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony. Edited by the State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Beucha: Sax-Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-934544-85-1
2. ^ Horst Reppe: hydroelectric power station Klosterbuch in the 90th year of its existence. In: New Mildensteiner Narrator (1/2015, pp. 2–4.)

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