Ilfeld Abbey

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Ilfeld around 1900 - In the foreground the dominant school complex from the 19th century

The Ilfeld Abbey with the former Ilfeld Abbey School is a Protestant abbey in the administration of the Hannover Abbey Chamber . It includes more than 1,500 hectares of forest in the Nordhausen district in Thuringia .

history

The Premonstratensian Monastery of Ilfeld was founded in 1190 . In 1546 a Protestant monastery school was built in the buildings of the abolished monastery . From 1550, Michael Neander , as headmaster, set the priorities and foundations for the later tradition, building on the ideas of the reformer Philipp Melanchthon . With the extinction of the male territorial lords in the County of Hohnstein in 1593, Duke Heinrich Julius von Wolfenbüttel tried to secure their inheritance and thus got into a dispute with the competing Counts of Stolberg , which was only decided in 1632 before the Imperial Chamber Court. The Thirty Years War brought the restoration of conditions in the Ilfeld Abbey with the Catholic Party in 1622 and in 1629 the Premonstratensians moved back into their old monastery. However, they were forced to flee as early as 1631 by approaching Swedish troops. In 1632 the Welfs received the Ilfeld Abbey as a “mild foundation”. This exclave has been administered from Hanover since 1559 . The Milde Stiftung was to prove to be an advantage later in 1803 at the Reichsdeputation Hauptschluss, since such secularization could not take place. In 1633 the Protestant abbot Cajus reestablished the academic high school . Since 1823 the Ilfeld Abbey has been part of the administration of the monastery chamber in Hanover as a special fund. The use of the building for the administration of the armaments company Mittelwerk GmbH led from 1943 to a relocation of part of the school operations to the Napola Ballenstedt and in 1944 to a complete cessation of the school operations in Ilfeld. Today, the income from the monastery is used to support educational and church projects. The monastery chamber continues to work on plans for a new Ilfeld grammar school.

literature

  • Royal Pedagogy in Ilfeld: Annual report on the Royal Monastery School Ilfeld , Ilfeld 1873 ( digital copy )
  • Dr. Bouterwek (Ed.): Michael Neander's report from the Ilfeld Monastery. A contribution to the history of the 16th century. Ilfeld: School program 1872/73 ( digitized version ; PDF file; 5.84 MB)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Mild Foundation" near Krünitz
  2. ↑ Klosterkammer continues to work on plans for Ilfelder Gymnasium , Thüringer Allgemeine from February 7, 2014.

Web links

Commons : Stift Ilfeld  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 35 ′ 6 ″  N , 10 ° 47 ′ 13 ″  E