Ahrensbök Charterhouse

The monastery Ahrensbok was formerly a Carthusian monastery in Ahrensbok in Holstein.

History

The Charterhouse was built in 1397 with the approval of the Lübeck Bishop Eberhard of Attendorn and associated lands extended as far as Scharbeutz at the Bay of Lübeck. During the Reformation, the monastery fell with his property to the Duke House. The buildings were demolished in Ahrensbok of Duke Johann the Younger of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg in 1584. The building material thus obtained was used in the period 1593-1601 for the construction of the castle in Ahrensbok. This castle Hoppe Brook was in the period 1623 to 1636 the residence of inheritance caused by the Duchy of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Plön, while Duke Joachim Ernst ( 1623-1671 ) erected the new Plön Castle. With the completion of Plön Castle, the residence of Ahrensbok was moved to Plön. Castle Brook Hoppe was also demolished after the death of the Duchess Juliane Luise in 1740. Today at the point is the town hall of the municipality Ahrensbok in a park that reveals the trenches of the former palace complex still.

Abbey

→ Main article: St. Mary's Church ( Ahrensbok )

Only remaining building from the Carthusian time that began even before the time in the monastery first quarter of the 14th century brick Gothic church of Ahrensbok that served the Monastery as a monastery church in the time of the Charterhouse Ahrensbok. It has been extended several times and received in 1400 the polygonal choir. The tower was only added in 1761 and is adorned with the portal through a sandstone plaque with a rococo inscription.