Frauenprießnitz nunnery

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The Frauenprießnitz nunnery existed from approx. 1250 to 1539. There is no evidence whatsoever, neither in documents nor in the legal submission, of the previously common method of assigning this monastery to the Cistercian women .

history

The St. Mauritius nunnery in Frauenprießnitz in Thuringia was first mentioned in a document in 1250. The previous assumption that it was settled by the Moritz monastery in Naumburg is unproven. From 1470, the monastery church was St. Mauritius as grave lay the taverns of Tautenburg , a line of gift giving of Vargula . The convention was dissolved even before the Reformation . Efforts to revive the monastery failed, so that the last provost went out of service in 1539. In the decades that followed, the buildings continued to deteriorate. Only the choir of the church and part of the surrounding walls have been preserved. The parish associated with the monastery was converted into a Protestant parish in 1539.

literature

  • Bernhard Sacrificemann : The Thuringian monasteries before 1800. An overview. Benno-Verlag, Leipzig 1959.
  • Gerhard Schlegel: Repertory of the Cistercians in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. Bernardus-Verlag, Langwaden 1998.
  • Konrad Claus: "Frauenprießnitz: monastery village - residence - official seat / Streiflichter from the history of an East Thuringian village", Gera self-published, 2008.
  • Dagmar Blaha article Frauenprießnitz, in: Germania Benedictina, Vol. 4.1, 2011, pp. 736–743
  • Andreas Hummel: Romanesque foundation walls , in: Archeology in Germany, vol. 34.2018, 5, p. 66.

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 57.6 "  N , 11 ° 44 ′ 4"  E