List of monasteries in Eichsfeld

The list of monasteries in Eichsfeld contains both current and former monasteries in Eichsfeld , most of which are now in Thuringia , but some are also in Lower Saxony .

List of the monasteries in Eichsfeld

The establishment of the first monasteries often took place to reclaim an area (mostly Benedictines and Cistercians ), later also to provide spiritual support for the residents. In the following list, former and currently existing monasteries and monasteries in the area of ​​the historic Eichsfeld are enumerated. The Petersstift Nörten outside the Eichsfeld and the Marienstein monastery near Nörten-Hardenberg are not listed, but they were under the secular and ecclesiastical administration of the Eichsfeld state .

place	Monastery, pen	medal	Period	comment	image
Anrode	Anrode Monastery	Cistercians	1260-1810
Anrode	Breitenbich Monastery	Cistercians	1230-1253	abandoned due to multiple destruction and re-established in Anrode
Anrode	Upcoming Breitenbich	Order of Lazarus	1253-1490	1490–1525 Johanniter settlement
Beuren	Beuren Abbey	Cistercians	1200-1810	Interruption 1555-1717
Bilshausen	Bilshausen coming to the German order	German medal	1242-1318	probably built the Rhumemühle in Bilshausen in 1266
Dingelstädt	Franciscan monastery in Kerbscher Berg	Franciscan	1864-1994
Duderstadt	Premonstratensian branch Duderstadt	Premonstratensians	1532-1575	resident as the monastic estate of the Premonstratensian monastery in Pöhlde after the abolition of the monastery in Duderstadt (Pöhlder Hof)
Duderstadt	Ursuline Convent Duderstadt	Ursulines	1700 – today
Geismar	Franciscan monastery in Hülfensberg	Franciscan	1860 – today	Pilgrimage support in the parish of Bebendorf
Germershausen	Augustinian monastery in Germershausen	Augustinians	1864-2019	1856–1860 as a Capuchin settlement until 1970 with a monastery school
Heilbad Heiligenstadt	St. Martin-Stift Heiligenstadt	Canon monastery	approx. 960-1803	with a provost at the head (at the same time archdeacon for parts of the Eichsfeld until the middle of the 16th century), later a dean with an attached school
Heiligenstadt	Jesuit College in Heiligenstadt	Jesuit	1575-1773	Recatholization of the Eichsfeld school college, library
Heiligenstadt	Mountain monastery Heiligenstadt	Sisters of St. Maria Magdalena Postel	1862 – today	with St. Elisabeth Mountain School
Heiligenstadt	Redemptorist Monastery in Heiligenstadt	Redemptorists	1921 – today	Parish of St. Gerhard
Helmsdorf	Lazarite Commandery Helmsdorf	Lazarite Order	1283-1490	as a branch of the Breitenbich monastery from 1490–1525 as Johanniterkomturei
Lengenfeld under the stone	Zella Monastery	Benedictine	around 1175-1810
Reifenstein	Reifenstein Monastery	Cistercians	before 1162-1803
Renshausen	Renshausen monastery courtyard	Benedictine	1674-1803	as a monastery estate since the 13th century
Performance	Teistungenburg Monastery	Cistercians	1260-1806
Weißenborn-Lüderode	Gerode Monastery	Benedictine	1100-1803
Worbis	Worbis Monastery	Cistercians	1311-1540
Worbis	Franciscan monastery of Worbis	Franciscan	1667-1824

Monasteries

In addition to the independent monasteries, there were also numerous branches of various religious communities in Eichsfeld. Especially at the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century, smaller and larger branches were founded. These were mainly active in outpatient and inpatient nursing and care for the elderly as well as looking after children, young people and the disabled.

• Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincent von Paul in Hildesheim (31 branches): Duderstadt Hospital (1865)
• Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Vincenz by Paul Paderborn (9): Heiligenstadt Hospital (1854), Worbis (1883), Ershausen with kindergarten (1884)
• Gray Sisters of St. Elisabeth (19)
• Franciscan Sisters of Eternal Adoration at Olpe : Daycare center and hospital in Lengenfeld unterm Stein (1905)
• Salesians Don Bosco : Youth Social Work in Heiligenstadt (1991)
• further branches of Franciscan Sisters, Vincentian Sisters

literature

• Josef Pilvousek: The Cistercian monasteries of the Eichsfeld. In: EJb 6 (1998), pp. 5-23
• Karl Hartung: The Eichsfeld monasteries in the last period of their existence and their end. Munster 1914.
• E. Bünz: Heiligenstadt as the spiritual center of the Eichsfeld. The collegiate monastery of St. Martin and its canons. In: Zeitschrift für Thüringische Geschichte 62 (2008), pp. 9–48
• Bernhard sacrifice man : castles and monasteries in the Eichsfeld. Heiligenstadt 1967
• Bernhard sacrifice man: the monasteries of the Eichsfeld in their history. St. Benno-Verlag Leipzig / Verlag Cordier Heiligenstadt 1961
• Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldische church history. Goettingen 1866
• Philipp Knieb: On the history of Martinsstift zu Heiligenstadt based on printed and archival sources. in: Our Eichsfeld, year 1, 2 (1906)
• Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldische church history. Göttingen 1816 The history of the Jesuit college in Heiligenstadt. Part 1 (1574-1685), ed. by Bernhard Opfermann. Part 2 (1686-1772), ed. from the Association for Eichsfeldische Heimatkunde. Duderstadt 1989-1992
• Renate Rönning, Roger Rönning: Eichsfeld. The most beautiful landscapes in Germany. (Flechsig) Stürz Verlag Würzburg 1999. Pages 73-79, 95
• Elmar Golland: religious branches of the Cistercian Sisters in Eichsfeld (Anrode, Beuren, Teistungenburg, Worbis). In: Gerhard Schlegel (Hg.): Repertory of the Cistercians in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Langwaden 1998, pp. 150-156, 179-185, 472-477, 493-496

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ^ "Deutschordenskommende Bilshausen" (GSN: 331), in: Germania Sacra, [1] (Accessed: July 21, 2017) Germania Sacra - Monasteries and monasteries of the Old Kingdom
2. ↑ Hermann Bringmann: Who built the Rhume mill in Bilshausen. In: Die Goldene Mark 25th year 1974, Verlag Mecke Duderstadt, issue 3/3, p. 61
3. ↑ [2] praemonstratenser.de