Peter I (new cell)

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Petrus († September 10, 1429 in Neuzelle , Niederlausitz ) was abbot of the Cistercian monastery Neuzelle .

Life

There is no information about its origin. Probably since 1408, at the latest since 1410 he was abbot in Neuzelle. In that year he was apologized for the general chapters of the Cistercian Order for the next ten years, because of the neediness and extreme poverty of the monastery. In 1411 he bought the village of Bresinchen and part of Aurith for the monastery. The imposing roof structure of the monastery church was built around 1410/12 (Dendrodatum), the consoles in the eastern cloister wing and possibly the vaulting were also created during this time.

Peter was probably not at the council in Constance in 1415, as was assumed in the older research literature. His name is not recorded in the lists of participants. In 1429 Abbot Peter and his entire convent were killed in a Hussite attack. The monks' hands and feet were obviously chopped off beforehand, causing them to bleed to death.

Parchment representation

On a small parchment from the period between 1450 and 1540, eight monks and an abbot are shown with severed hands and feet. It says Monachi Cellenses, manibus pedibusque truncatis occiduntur. (The monks from Zell, who were killed with their hands and feet cut off.) This can only refer to the events in Neuzelle, but the depiction ended up in the Mariazell monastery . The sheet is about 8 × 11 centimeters in size. It may have been made as a template for a fresco.

Adoration

Abbot Peter is venerated as a martyr and blessed with Prior Hermann, the Bursarius Jakob and other monks of the monastery. Her feast day is September 10th.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winfried Töpler : The Neuzelle monastery and the secular and spiritual powers 1268-1817 (= studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians, volume 14). Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931836-53-3 . P. 69. A.139.
  2. ↑ Abtliste and building history monastery Neuzelle
  3. ↑ Winfried Töpler : The Neuzelle monastery and the secular and spiritual powers 1268-1817 (= studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians, volume 14). Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-931836-53-3 . P. 68f ..
  4. ↑ Medieval depiction of the Neuzeller Martyrs Day of the Lord, 01/2009.
personal data
SURNAME Peter I.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peter I of Neuzelle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot of Neuzelle, martyr and blessed
DATE OF BIRTH 14th Century
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1429
Place of death uncertain: new cell