List of monasteries in Saxony

The list of monasteries in Saxony includes both the current monasteries and monasteries and former monasteries in Saxony , some of which are now in Brandenburg , Saxony-Anhalt , Thuringia and Poland .

The establishment of monasteries took place in rural areas to reclaim the area (mostly Benedictines and Cistercians ) and in cities for the spiritual care of the residents. The number of monasteries (especially the mendicant orders ) in a city reflected the wealth of the individual cities. The Dominicans , Franciscans , Carmelites and Augustinian hermits are among the mendicant orders .

List of current monasteries in Saxony

 Map with all coordinates of the section List of current monasteries in Saxony : OSM

In the following list the currently existing monasteries, monasteries and commanderies in the Free State of Saxony are listed. The two Cistercian convents in Ostritz and Panschwitz-Kuckau have never been dissolved in their long history.

place	Monastery, order, pen	Period	Location remark	image
Meissen	Meissen Abbey ( Dompropstei )	since approx. 1000	(Location)
Spice up	Kollegiatstift Wurzen (Domstift) St. Mary's Cathedral	since 1114	(Location)
Bautzen	St. Petri Cathedral Monastery St. Petri Cathedral	since 1213/18	(Location) Simultaneous church since 1524 (Roman Catholic and Evangelical Lutheran)
Ostritz	Cistercian convent St. Marienthal Monastery	since 1238	(Location)
Panschwitz-Kuckau	Cistercian Abbey St. Marienstern Monastery	since 1248	(Location)
Goppeln	Convent of the Nazareth Sisters of St. Francis	since 1923	(Location)
Aue	Saxon Community Deaconess House Zion (Protestant)	since 1924	(Location)
Bautzen	Poor Clare Monastery of St. Clara Bautzen	since 1925	(Location)
Leipzig-Wahren	Dominican monastery St. Albert Leipzig	since 1929	(Location)
Görlitz-Weinhübel	Franciscan monastery Monastery church of St. John and Francis	since 1952	(Location)
Seelingstädt / Trebsen	Sisters of Jesus-Maria	since 1949	Nursing home (former castle)
Wechselburg	Wechselburg Benedictine monastery	Since 1993	(Location) formerly Augustinian Canons Monastery of Zschillen
Zwickau	Zwickau Oblate Monastery
Dresden / Görlitz	Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem , Commandery "Constantine the Great" Dresden / Görlitz (Province of Eastern Germany)	since 2003

List of former monasteries in Saxony

 Map with all coordinates of the section List of Former Monasteries in Saxony : OSM

The following list shows the monasteries, monasteries and commanderies in the former Electorate of Saxony (after 1547), including the Vogtland , the Kurkreis , Lower and Upper Lusatia and the former (later Wettin ) "Stiftsländer" (secularized dioceses) around Merseburg , Naumburg -Zeitz and Meißen taken into account.

place	Monastery, order, pen	Period	Location remark	image
Adorf	German medal	1289-1533
Altenburg	Augustinian Canons of St. Mary's Red Tips "Our dear women on the mountains in front of Altenburg" (Bergerkloster) with collegiate church (Marienkirche)	1172-1543	(Location, today Thuringia)
Altenburg	Franciscan monastery Brethren Church	1238-1529	(Location, today Thuringia)
Altenburg	Magdalenian Monastery (Magdalenian Sisters)	1245-1538 / 42	(today Thuringia)
Altenburg	German Order (Coming)	1213-1539	(today Thuringia)
Altenburg	Magdalenenstift (Protestant)	1705-1972	(Location, today Thuringia)
Altenburg	Collegiate Foundation St. Georg Castle Church of St. George	1413-1537	(today Thuringia)
Altranstädt	Grangie or Cistercian priory from Altzelle	1213-1540
Annaberg-Buchholz	Franciscan monastery Annaberg	1502-1539	(Location)
Aue cell	Augustinian Canons Monastery Little monastery cell	1173-1527	(Location)
Auma	Auma Monastery	around 1480	(today Thuringia)
Bautzen	Secular canons , St. Petri Collegiate Foundation, St. Petri Cathedral	since 1213/18	(Location)
Bautzen	Franciscan monastery, Monk church	before 1248-1523	(Location)
Belgians	Cistercian monastery with monastery school (1486)	1258-1541	(Location) Farm yard and branch of the Buch monastery
Brehna	Augustinian Choir Foundation St. Clemens in Brehna	1201-1541	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Borna / Wenigenborna	Benedictine monastery (Propstei of Pegau)	1307-1522
Chemnitz	Benedictine monastery “St. Marien auf dem Berge "	1136 / 43-1540	(Location) Under Elector Moritz, it was converted into a hunting lodge, now the Schloßbergmuseum Chemnitz
Chemnitz	Franciscan monastery	1481 / 85-1541	Franciscan Quarter-St. Paulikirche
Crimmitschau-Frankenhausen	Frankenhausen Cistercian convent	1285-1531	(Location) Relocation from Grünberg Abbey (near Ponitz, Thuringia)
Dahme / Mark	Carmelite monastery (with hospital)	1304-?	(Location, today Brandenburg)
Doberlug-Kirchhain	Dobrilugk Cistercian Abbey	1165-1541	(Location, today Brandenburg) 1624 conversion to a castle
Chub	Benedictine convent	1330-1554	(Location)
Dölzig	Kollegiatstift / Propstei	1509-1522	Collegiate church
Lommatzsch-Dörschnitz	Cistercian convent	1233-1270	Relocation to Schildau-Sitzenroda (1270)
Dommitzsch	German Order (Commandery)	1223-1530	(Location) former Martinikirche on Osterberg
Dresden	Franciscan monastery Dresden	before 1265-1541	(Location) Monastery demolished in 1775, ruins of the Sophienkirche (former monastery church) demolished in 1962/63
Dresden ( Altendresden )	Augustinian Hermits Monastery in Altendresden	1404-1539	(Location) Erected in 1404 by Margrave Wilhelm I , dissolved in 1539 after the Reformation , demolished until 1546, from 1569 construction of the Jägerhof under Elector August von Sachsen
Dresden	Poor Clare Monastery	1270-	Regelhaus in the Große Brüdergasse, opposite the Franciscan monastery, cf. Claranonne Chapel.
Ebersdorf / Chemnitz	Kollegiatstift	before 1346-1561	Collegiate Church , pilgrimage church
Naunhof-Eicha	Antonite Monastery Eicha Monastery of the Antonite Order (Antonite Canons)	1497-1525	(Location) Monastery and former place of pilgrimage
Eilenburg	Antonite Monastery
Petersberg near Eisenberg	Cistercian convent	1219-1524	(today Thuringia) moved from Zwickau to Eisenberg
Eisenberg	Augustinian Canon Monastery		(today Thuringia) moved from Camburg to Eisenberg
Freiberg	Franciscan monastery	1279-1536	(Location)
Freiberg	Dominican monastery	1266-1564	(Location)
Freiberg	Magdalene gutters Monastery	1248-1536 or 1568	(Location) so-called "Jungfrauenkloster" at the Jacobikirche
Freiberg	Nunnery	before 1420 until?	Sepultur monastery or funeral nuns in today's Nonnengasse
Freiberg	Secular canons , Kollegiatstift, Freiberg Cathedral (St. Marien)	1480-1551	(Location)
Freyburg-Zscheiplitz	Benedictine convent "St. Bonifacius on St. Martini Mountain "	1089-1538	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Geringswalde	Benedictine monastery of St. Marien (around 60 nuns)	1233-1542	At the Klosterbach
Goeda	Kollegiatstift	1350-1559	Collegiate Church of St. Peter and Paul
Goerlitz	Franciscan monastery	before 1266-1564	(Location) Trinity Church
Goseck	Benedictine monastery Goseck	1041-1540	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt) Secularized in 1540, manor, then converted into a castle
Grimma	Monastery of the Augustinian Hermits Grimma Monastery Church	1287-1541	(Location) 1287 from Gotha, from 1550 princely school, high school St. Augustin
Grimma	Cistercian convent	1250-1290	Relocation to Nimbschen
Grossenhain	Maria Magdalenen Monastery Reuerinnen (Monastery of the "penitent sisters")	before 1240-1539	(Location)
Grossenhain	Servite monastery in Großenhain	1318-1539
Grossenhain	Secular canon pen	before 1225-1539	(Location) Relocation to Zscheila
Grünhain	Grünhain Cistercian Abbey Grünhain Monastery	1135-1536	(Location) Farm yard in Zwickau
Zittau-Hirschfelde	Knights of St. John (Coming)
Guben	Benedictine convent Monastery church	before 1235-1564	(Location)
Pegau-Hohenlohe	Cistercian convent	1190-1230	(Location) Relocation to Leipzig (1230)
Kamenz	Franciscan monastery St. Annen Monastery Church	1493-1565	(Location) now museum
Königstein (Saxon Switzerland)	Celestine monastery "Monastery of the Praise of the Miracles Mariae" on the Königstein	1518-1524	(Location)
Langensalza	Augustinian Hermits Monastery	1280-1540	(Location, today Thuringia)
Lauban (Lubań)	Magdalen convent Lauban	1320–1945, since 1953	(Location, today Lower Silesia in Poland) today mother monastery of the Polish "Magdalenki"
Lauban (Lubań)	Franciscan monastery (at the Brüderturm)	1273-?	(Location, today Lower Silesia in Poland)
Lausick	Benedictine monastery (Propstei of Pegau)	1106-1530	St. Kilian's Church
Leipzig	Augustinian Canons St. Thomas Monastery	1213-1539	(Location)
Leipzig	Cistercian convent St. Georg Monastery , from 1480 Benedictine nuns "Leipziger Georgennonnenkloster"	1230-1543	(Location) moved from Pegau-Hohenlohe to Leipzig (1230)
Leipzig	Dominican monastery St. Pauli Leipzig with Paulinerkirche	1229-1543	(Location) from 1545 university church, now Paulinum
Leipzig	Franciscan monastery Leipzig	before 1253-1539	(Location)
Leisnig monastery book	Cistercian monastery Monastery book	1192-1525	(Location)
Leitzkau	Premonstratensian choir pen	1133-1535	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt) Conversion to a castle
Osterfeld-Lissen	Benedictine Provosty	around 1200–1539	now ev. provost church, Saxony-Anhalt, BLK,
Löbau	Franciscan monastery	before 1336-1563	(Location) now cultural center Johanniskirche
Luckau	Dominican monastery	1291 to 1546	(Location, today Brandenburg)
Meissen	Augustinian Canons of St. Afra St. Afra Monastery	1205-1539	(Location) from 1543 Princely School, now Saxon State High School Sankt Afra
Meissen	Holy Cross Monastery , (Benedictine monastery "To the Holy Cross")	1217-1568	(Location)
Meissen	Secular canons (Dompropstei)	since approx. 1000	(Location) today Hochstift Meißen
Meissen	Franciscan monastery	1258-1539	(Location) from 1540 Franciscan School, now Gymnasium Franziskaneum Meißen
Meissen-Zscheila	Secular canons	before 1241-1539	(Location) moved from Großenhain, now Evangelical Trinity Church
Memleben	Benedictine monastery, Memleben monastery	979-1548	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Merseburg	Benedictine monastery of St. Petri	1012-1561	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Merseburg	Merseburg Cathedral Monastery, now United Cathedral Founders	since 1004	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Merseburg	Kollegiatstift	1188-1327	(today Saxony-Anhalt) Thomaskirche / Neumarktkirche then Sixtikirche
Merseburg	Kollegiatstift	1327-1580	(today Saxony-Anhalt) Sixtikirche, previously Neumarktkirche
Mühlberg / Elbe	Cistercian convent Marienstern Monastery (also Güldenstern)	1228-1539	(Location, today Brandenburg) Since 2000 Claretian -Orden
Mutzschen	Servite monastery	1490-1539	(Location)
Naumburg	Naumburg Cathedral Monastery, now United Cathedral Founders	since 1028	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Naumburg	Benedictine monastery St. George Monastery	1046-?	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Naumburg-Schulpforta	Pforta Cistercian Abbey	1137-1540	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt) then Princely School, now Pforta State School in Saxony-Anhalt
Frohburg-Nenkersdorf	Benedictine monastery (provost of Chemnitz)	1304-1478	(Location)
Neukirchen near Crimmitschau	Augustinian Canons Monastery, Martinstal Charterhouse near Crimmitschau	1228-1478, 1478-1531	(Location, in the Martinstal) Conversion to the Carthusian monastery (1478)
Neustadt an der Orla	Augustinian Hermits Monastery with monastery church (today castle church)	1294-1524	(Location, today Thuringia) Destroyed during the Thirty Years' War , later converted into a castle by the Dukes of Saxony-Zeitz
New cell	Cistercian Abbey Neuzelle (Nova Cella), today Neuzelle Abbey	1281-1817	(Location, today Brandenburg) Daughter monastery of Altzella, founded by Heinrich the Illustrious (1268)
Grimma-Nimbschen	Cistercian monastery Nimbschen (Marienthron)	1264-1536	(Location)
Nossen	Benedictine monastery old cell	1141 – around 1170	(Location) in the Zellwald near Nossen	is missing
Nossen	Cistercian monastery Altzella	1162-1540	(Location) Daughter monastery of Pforta
Oberröblingen	Cistercian convent Rohrbach	until 1542	(Location)
Orlamünde	Wilhelmitenkloster	1331-1540
Oschatz	Franciscan monastery church	1282-1539	(Location)
Oschatz	Kollegiatstift, St. Aegidien Church , 16 side altars!	1284 - Reformation
Ostritz	Cistercian convent St. Marienthal	since 1238	(Location)
Oybin	Celestine Monastery	1369-1559	(Location)
Panschwitz-Kuckau	Cistercian Abbey of St. Marienstern	since 1248	(Location)
Pegau	Benedictine Monastery of St. Jakob (Abbey) Pegau Monastery	1091-1540	(Location) Demolition 1556
Pegau (Niederstadt)	Benedictines (Propstei of Pegau)
Penig	Benedictine monastery (provost of Chemnitz)	1313-1459	City church, largest pilgrimage in Saxony
Petersberg near Halle	Augustinian Canon Monastery Petersberg Monastery (formerly Lauterberg Monastery)	1142-1565	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt) since 1999 Evangelical Community Christ Brotherhood Selbitz
Pirna	Kollegiatstift Please indicate source!	13th century – 1539	Marienkirche
Pirna	Dominican monastery	1300-1540	(Location)
Plauen	German medal	1214-1521	(Location) (Johanniskirche)
Plauen	Dominican monastery	1266-1525	(Location)
Plauen	Convent of the Sisters of the Third Rule of the Penance of St. Dominic	1300-1541	(Location)
Plötzky	Cistercian monastery Sankt-Maria-auf-dem-Georgenberg	1210-1538	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Prettin	Antoniterkloster in the Lichtenbergk house	? -1525	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt) with branch monasteries in Eilenburg, Schlieben and Wittenberg, later Lichtenburg Castle
Radeburg	Servite monastery in Radeburg	1320–1536 (converted into a hospital)	(Location)
Radmeritz (Radomierzyce)	Free noble Evangelical Fräuleinstift Joachimstein zu Radmeritz Joachimstein Abbey	1722-1945	(Location, today Lower Silesia in Poland)
Reichenbach in Vogtland	German medal	1274-1533
Remse	Benedictine monastery "Rother Stock"	1265-1533
Riesa	Benedictine monks until 1170, then Augustinian Canons	before 1119-1207	(Location)
Riesa	Benedictine convent	1170-1542
Sangerhausen	Benedictines (1085–1122), Benedictine Sisters (1122–1265), Cistercian Sisters (1265–1540) Sankt Ulrici (Priory)	1085-1540	(Location)
Sangerhausen	Augustinian Hermits	1294-1539	Choir stalls and 3-part altarpiece in the Jacobi church
Schkölen	Benedictine monastery (Propstei of Pegau)	1140-1536
Schmalkalden	Augustinian Hermits	1320-1527 / 1548	1629 renewed attempt at founding
Schmoelln	Benedictine monastery and Benedictine convent	at 1100-?	(today Thuringia)
Schmoelln	Cistercian monastery on the Pfefferberg	1127-1140	(today Thuringia) Daughter of Walkenried Monastery , relocation to Pforta (1140)
Schildau-Sitzenroda	Cistercian monastery "Marienpforte" in Sitzenroda	1198-1530
Diesbar-Seusslitz	Poor Clare Monastery of St. Afra (and women's monastery), Baroque Seusslitz Castle	1268-1541	(Location) later a manor, in 1722 it was converted into a castle under Heinrich von Bünau
Sorau (Żary)	Franciscan monastery with Church of St. Barbara, now “Church of St. Exaltation of the Cross "(Garrison Church)	1264-1549	(Location, Lower Lusatia in Poland)
Mügeln-Sornzig	Marienthal Cistercian monastery	1243-1539	(Location)
Stauchitz-Staucha	Benedictine convent	1223-1330	Relocation to Döbeln (1330)
Stumble	Collegiate monastery St. Barbara Burg Stolpen	1406-1539	(Location)
Thalbürgel (Bürgel)	Bürgel Monastery Benedictine monastery with St. Maria and St. Georg Church - Thalbürgel monastery church	1133-1525 / 30	(Location, today Thuringia)
Torgau	Franciscan monastery	before 1243-1525	(Location)
Torgau	Cistercian convent	1240-1250	Relocation to Grimma (1250)
Waldheim	Augustinian Hermits	1404-1537	(Location) 1588 Castle, today JVA Waldheim
Wechselburg-Zschillen	Zschillen Monastery Augustinian Canons, German Order from 1278	1168-1278, 1278-1539, since 1993	(Location) today a Benedictine monastery
Wittenberg	Franciscan monastery	1227-1526	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt) today town house
Wittenberg	Kollegiatstift Allerheiligen Castle Church Castle Wittenberg	1330-1525	today Saxony-Anhalt
Wittenberg	Augustinian Hermits " Black Monastery "	1504-1526	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Spice up	Cathedral pin	1114-1539	(Location) after 1539 until today ev.-luth.
Time	Zeitz Collegiate Foundation, Zeitz Cathedral Michaeliskirche, now United Cathedral Founders	1028 - Reformation; since the Reformation: ev.-luth.	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Time	Franciscan monastery	1225 / 50-1541	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Time	Benedictine monastery, St. Stephen's monastery	1147-1541
Zeitz trombone	Benedictine monastery Posa (also Bosau)	1114-1573	(Location, today Saxony-Anhalt)
Zittau	Franciscan monastery	before 1265-1543	(Location)
Zittau	Order of St. John (Coming)	1268-1554	(Location)
Zwickau	Kollegiatstift Please indicate source!	around 1180 - Reformation	St. Mary's Church , priestly houses, now 4, formerly 12!
Zwickau	Franciscan monastery	1231-1525	(Location)
Zwickau	Benedictine women	1212-1219	Relocated from Zwickau to Eisenberg (1219)
Zwickau	Cistercian monastery	around 1240	Service yard of the Grünhain monastery with "Grünhainer Chapel" (1240)

literature

• Helmut Sieber : Cathedrals, churches and monasteries in Saxony , Weidlich publishing house. Frankfurt a. M., 1961, 260 pp.
• Wulf Schadendorf: Dome, churches and monasteries in the province of Saxony and in Anhalt , publisher: Weidlich Frankfurt am Main, 1966, 264 pp.
• Willi Rittenbach; Siegfried Seifert: History of the Bishops of Meissen 968 - 1581 (studies on the Catholic diocese and monastery history. Part 8, Leipzig, 1965).
• Enno Bünz , Dirk Martin Mütze and Sabine Zinsmeyer: Klösterreich - a new look at Saxony before the Reformation, streams of thought . Journal of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Issue 7 (2011), pp. 93–121.
• Stefan Beier: Monastery Landscape Saxony-Anhalt , Publisher: Stekovics, 2011, 256 pages, ISBN 3-89923-247-X .

Web links

1. ↑ Monastery Book of Saxony ( Memento from January 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Map of former monasteries in Saxony (PDF; 545 kB)
3. ↑ Klösterreich, SAW (2011) pp. 93–121 (PDF; 462 kB)
4. ↑ Hochstift Meissen
5. ^ United cathedral donors Merseburg-Naumburg-Zeitz
6. ↑ Wurzen Cathedral

 Map with all coordinates: OSM | WikiMap