Magdalen convent Naumburg am Queis

Ruins of the former Magdalen convent

Ruins of the former monastery from the churchyard of St. Peter and Paul with a memorial plaque for Sister M. Rosaria (Elfriede) Schilling (* 1908), who fled with nuns from Neisse and became a martyr here on February 23, 1945 .

Remains of the cloister of the former Magdalen convent

Fortification wall around the monastery, on the right the church of St Peter and Paul, on the left Voivodship Street 357

The Magdalenerinnenkloster Naumburg am Queis was a monastery of the Magdalenerinnen in the small Silesian town of Naumburg on the east bank of the Queis river on the border with Upper Lusatia (today Nowogrodziec in the Polish Voivodeship of Lower Silesia ). The oldest Magdalener monastery in Silesia was founded before 1247 and secularized in 1810 under Prussian rule. The buildings were then used by various institutions, including a court and an evangelical seminar. The monastery complex was badly damaged in 1945 and is still in ruins today. It is one of the listed buildings in Poland.

history

According to legend , the founder of the monastery is Hedwig von Andechs , who allegedly received a hunting lodge from her husband Heinrich I in 1217 and founded a Magdalen convent there with five nuns from Marseille. It is documented that her grandchildren, the dukes Boleslaw II and Henry III. , 1247 transferred their patronage rights over the town church of Naumburg to the existing monastery. A subsidiary monastery was founded in Beuthen an der Oder as early as 1289 and moved to Sprottau am Bober in 1314 . Another daughter monastery was built in Lauban according to a deed of foundation from 1320 and was initially occupied by Magdalena from the mother monastery. After the Reformation , only four of the order's numerous monasteries remained: in Silesia, in addition to the one in Naumburg, the Magdalen convent in Sprottau , in Upper Lusatia the Magdalen convent in Lauban and another in Hildesheim . Shortly after the death of the prioress Maria Aloysia Steinert, the Naumburg monastery was dissolved in 1810. At that time there was still a subprior and 14 nuns.

Monastery property

Ullersdorf, west of the Queis in Upper Lusatia, has belonged to the monastery since 1410 . Until 1495, Naumburg was also completely owned by the monastery. Other monastery locations in the Silesian Duchy of Liegnitz were Birkenbrück, Herrmannsdorf, Herzogswaldau, Ober Thiemendorf and Paritz.

Prioresses of the monastery from 1528 to 1810

Term of office in brackets

Margaretha von Falkenhain (1528–1543)
Katharina von Metzerode (1549–1563)
Katharina Kretschmer (1563–1577)

...
Maria Aloysia Steinert (1789–1810)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hans-Ulrich Minke (2006): Catholic monastery and Protestant seminary: the Magdalenerinnenkloster in Naumburg am Queis. Yearbook for Silesian Church History NF 84/85. Pp. 145-182. ISSN 0075-2762
↑ Paul Skobel: The virgin monastery monastery of St. Mary Magdalene of the penance at Lauban in Silesia from 1320-1821 . Edited and supplemented to the present by Edmund Piekorz. Konrad Theiss, Aalen and Stuttgart 1970. pp. 25ff.
↑ Norbert Kersken: The Upper Lusatia from the establishment of the six-city federation to the transition to the Electorate of Saxony (1346-1635) . In: Joachim Bahlcke (Hrsg.): History of Upper Lusatia: Rule, society and culture from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. 2nd Edition. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2004. ISBN 3-935693-46-X . P. 130.
↑ Anonymous: History . General literature newspaper (Halle and Leipzig). February 1813, Volume 1. pp. 393-397.
↑ Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 550.
^ Anton Rathsmann: Fragments from the history of the monasteries and foundations of Silesia from their creation to the time of their abolition in November 1810. Graß and Barth, Breslau 1811. pp. 305–321. pdf

Web links

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[Minke-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Hans-Ulrich Minke (2006): Catholic monastery and Protestant seminary: the Magdalenerinnenkloster in Naumburg am Queis. Yearbook for Silesian Church History NF 84/85. Pp. 145-182. ISSN 0075-2762

[2] Paul Skobel: The virgin monastery monastery of St. Mary Magdalene of the penance at Lauban in Silesia from 1320-1821 . Edited and supplemented to the present by Edmund Piekorz. Konrad Theiss, Aalen and Stuttgart 1970. pp. 25ff.

[3] Norbert Kersken: The Upper Lusatia from the establishment of the six-city federation to the transition to the Electorate of Saxony (1346-1635) . In: Joachim Bahlcke (Hrsg.): History of Upper Lusatia: Rule, society and culture from the Middle Ages to the end of the 20th century. 2nd Edition. Leipziger Universitäts-Verlag, Leipzig 2004. ISBN 3-935693-46-X . P. 130.

[4] Anonymous: History . General literature newspaper (Halle and Leipzig). February 1813, Volume 1. pp. 393-397.

[5] Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , p. 550.

[6] Anton Rathsmann: Fragments from the history of the monasteries and foundations of Silesia from their creation to the time of their abolition in November 1810. Graß and Barth, Breslau 1811. pp. 305–321. pdf