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 |
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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) |
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Duderstadt | Ursuline Convent Duderstadt | Ursulines | 1700 – today | ||
Geismar | Franciscan monastery in Hülfensberg | Franciscan | 1860 – today | Pilgrimage support in the parish of Bebendorf |
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Germershausen | Augustinian monastery in Germershausen | Augustinians | 1864-2019 | 1856–1860 as a Capuchin settlement until 1970 with a monastery school |
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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 |
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Heiligenstadt | Jesuit College in Heiligenstadt | Jesuit | 1575-1773 |
Recatholization of the Eichsfeld school college, library |
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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 |
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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
Individual evidence
- ^ "Deutschordenskommende Bilshausen" (GSN: 331), in: Germania Sacra, [1] (Accessed: July 21, 2017) Germania Sacra - Monasteries and monasteries of the Old Kingdom
- ↑ Hermann Bringmann: Who built the Rhume mill in Bilshausen. In: Die Goldene Mark 25th year 1974, Verlag Mecke Duderstadt, issue 3/3, p. 61
- ↑ [2] praemonstratenser.de