Eisenberg Cistercian Convent

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The monastery in Eisenberg in Thuringia . existed from 1219 to 1524 as a monastery of the Benedictine nuns .

history

The monastery of the Augustinian Canons, founded by Margrave Dietrich the Oppressed in Eisenberg in 1210 , was converted into a Benedictine convent in 1219 and received the nuns who moved from Triptis to Zwickau in 1212 . The monastery was named Zum Heiligen Kreuz . In 1524 it was dissolved. Today only the street name "Klosterstraße" reminds of the former monastery.

literature

  • Friedrich Gotthelff Gotter (1682–1746), Kurtze but reliable news, From the Lutheri confessed to Eisenberg before the Reformation, and the Blessed Virgin Mariae, also afterwards consecrated to Saint Creutz, the famous nun's closter Bey opportunity of the other great Evangelical Augsburg Confession Celebration of jubilation from old, proven documents and diplomatic bus brought to light by M. Friedrich Gotthelff Gottern, Rectore there . Eisenberg, Fleischer, 1730.
  • Gerhard Schlegel, Repertory of the Cistercians in the states of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . Bernardus-Verlag, Langwaden, 1998.
  • Marco Rüttger, The Eisenberg Nunnery , Eisenberg 2003.
  • Matthias Ludwig, article Eisenberg, in: Germania Benedictina, Vol. 4.1, 2011, pp. 600–625.
  • Bianca Else, "Wettin monasteries in the 12th and 13th centuries: The founding of Dietrich des Bedrägeten († 1221) and Heinrichs des Erlauchten († 1288)", Frankfurt a. M. 2016.
  • Andrei Zahn , was there a monastery on the Cyriaksberg near Camburg? - Investigations on the parishes of St. Cyriaksberg and St. Petersberg , in: Contributions to early history and the Middle Ages of East Thuringia, Vol. 9, Langenweißbach, in preparation.

Coordinates: 50 ° 58 ′ 20.6 ″  N , 11 ° 53 ′ 57.8 ″  E