Thorn Nunnery

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The monastery Thorn was a monastery of Cistercian and Benedictine in Thorn (now Toruń) in the German Teutonic Knights and in Pomerania from the 13th to the 19th centuries.

history

In the year 1263 a Cistercian convent was probably founded in the new town, about the further development of which no information is available.

Around 1311 a Cistercian convent was (again) founded under Bishop Hermann von Kulm at the gates of the medieval city. In 1341 he was given patronage over the Church of St. James. In 1349 five nuns went to the new monastery in Königsberg. In 1391 the monastery burned down after a Lithuanian raid. In the following period it changed location several times. It is not entirely clear whether there were two convents, one of which was Cistercian and the other Benedictine, or whether it was only a question of changing ascriptions of a monastery.

In 1579 the monastery became Protestant (?) In 1667 the nuns took over St. Jacob's Church, which had been Protestant until then and became Catholic again. The monastery existed until 1834. The last nun died in 1866. The Jakobskirche, which is still standing today, is an important brick Gothic building .

literature

  • Jolanta Kurek: Inwentarz zespołu act cysterek-benedyktynek toruńskich z lat 1311–1833. In: Archiwa, biblioteki i muzea kościelne 86, 2006, pp. 189–285.
  • Jolanta Kurek: Obserwancja zakonna toruńskich cysterek-benedyktynek w latach 1311–1632. In: Sanctimoniales. Zakonny żeńskie w Polsce i Europie Środkowej (do przełomu XVIII i XIX wieku) . Bydgoszcz-Toruń 2010, pp. 105–124.
  • Julius Emil Wernicke (Ed.): Karl Gotthelf Praetorius: Topographical-historical-statistical description of the city of Thorn. Volume 1. Thorn 1832. pp. 161f.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 0 ′ 42.7 "  N , 18 ° 36 ′ 45.4"  E