Cistercian convent Wasserleben

The Cistercian convent Wasserleben (formerly also: Kloster Waterler ) was from 1300 to 1650 a nunnery of the Cistercian women in Wasserleben , unit municipality North Harz , district Harz in Saxony-Anhalt .

history

Not far from the Deutschordenskommende Langeln (Northern Harz) , a Host or Holy Blood miracle occurred in Waterler (later: Wasserler , today: Wasserleben ) north of Wernigerode in 1231 , the fame of which moved the Bishop of Halberstadt to set up a Cistercian convent on site at the end of the century to donate holy blood, which was settled with nuns from Wöltingerode Monastery and is documented for January 20, 1300. Thanks to the blood miracle, the Heiligenblutkloster developed into a prosperous place of pilgrimage. It was destroyed in the German Peasants' War in 1525, but the nuns were able to return to the monastery, where they subsequently increasingly leaned towards Protestantism. During the Thirty Years War they became Catholics again in 1627 and, although plundered by the Swedes, remained so until 1650. Then the monastery finally passed into Protestant ownership. The monastery complex was used as an estate and still exists as such today.

literature

• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 54 B.
• Sebastian Brunner (Ed.): A book of Cistercians. Woerl, Vienna 1881 / Salzwasser, Paderborn 2013, p. 643.
• Eduard Jacobs : Document book of the Deutschordens-Commende Langeln and the monasteries Himmelpforten and Waterler in the county of Wernigerode , Halle 1882.
• Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 490.
• Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area . 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 471.
• Dieter Pötschke: "Contributions to the history of the Heiligenblutkloster Wasserleben. On the Holy Blood, from clan writings and the new creeping rehearsal in the monastery". In: Dieter Pötschke (ed.) History and Law of the Cistercians , Lukas, Berlin 1997, pp. 178–188

Web links

• Location of the monastery
• Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
• Entry "Kelbra" in Germania Monastica. Monastery directory of the German Benedictines and Cistercians
• Entry in the Germania Sacra
• Community website with information on the Wasserleben manor

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 20.1 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 26.4 ″  E