Sittichenbach Abbey
Daughter monasteries
Lehnin ( 1180) Monastery Book ( 1192 ) Abbey Green Grove ( 1235 )
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The monastery Sittichenbach ( Sichemium; Shechem ) was a Cistercian abbey in the area now called Sittichenbach Eisleben in the district of Mansfeld- South Harz in Saxony- Anhalt.
History
The monastery was founded by the Abbey Walk Ried and thus belonged to the filiation of primary Abbey Mori Moon. From there, was in 1141 the abbot Volkuin sent at the request of ESIKO II of Bornstedt with eleven other monks to create a new daughter monastery in the later county of Mansfeld. It succeeded the monks to acquire extensive lands and to build several cloisters. On behalf of the Margrave of Brandenburg, the monks put out Sittichenbach 1180 to the monastery Lehnin. Furthermore, the new plants followed by Klosterbuch at Leisnig 1192 and Convent Green Park in the Erzgebirge 1235th Especially for the latter a close economic and trade contact is known, for example, the in the jointly managed cloister to Zwickau found its expression. Also, were abbots for the government of the monastery Gruenhain sent to the 15th century at personellem deficiency, such as the monk Johannes radio in 1460, or monk Laurentius in 1475, which was also used as superintendent of yard in Zwickau.
From 1209 the Halberstadt bishop Konrad of Krosigk spent in the monastery of his life. ( Urkundenbuch the monasteries of the county of Mansfeld, Hall 1888). The monastery stood with the Halberstadt Cathedral in dispute, as both parties relics and treasures from Konrad Konstantin Opel, captured at the 4th crusade claimed.
1362 the monastery was taken in a feud of the Bishop Ludwig von Halberstadt with the Count of Mansfeld arg. The abbot and the monks were taken hostage and some of them died. Then the excommunication pronounced on the Count Mansfeld.
1540 the monastery was secularized and left in 1612 by the Count of Mansfeld to the Elector Johann Georg I of course axes. The monastery has now been attached to the Headquarters. The Office Sittichenbach came in 1656 to the Albertine branch line Saxe- Weissenfels, which is integrated in their own principality cross- ford in 1686. After the extinction of Weißenfelser Dukes 1746 areas have again fallen to the Electorate of Saxony and were integrated after the loss-making for the Kingdom of Saxony Congress of Vienna in 1815 in the newly formed Prussian Province of Saxony.
Plant and buildings
From the monastery have only scant remains over time, so a significantly revised in the 19th century chapel, which was rebuilt in 1615 as the official chapel, the " Shepherd residence " west of the chapel, another, rebuilt as a house band, the monk gallery, the monastery ponds and the pigeon-house. The location of the monastery church in the north- west of the present church is known by experiments conducted in 1978 excavations. Have received from her a big, today -positioned in front of the Catholic Church Würfelkapitell and three other capitals, which are placed in an extension of the farmhouse. From the western wing exam the east wall is obtained.