Kloster Veßra

Monastery Veßra is a municipality in the district of Hildburghausen in Frankish embossed south of Thuringia. It belongs to the administrative community Feldstein. The administrative headquarters are in the town Themar.

• 4.1 monastery complex and open-air museum

Geography

Veßra monastery located at the junction of the sheath into the Werra.

Community structure

Districts are Neuhof ( in the 17th century emerged from the deserted village and the farm Atlas ) and Zollbrueck.

History

Its history is closely connected with the eponymous monastery, founded in the 12th century and secularized in the 16th century, thereafter to be managed as a princely state or domain. On this site the collegiate church was consecrated in 1138. After the dissolution of the monastery of the Collegiate Church village Church. The remaining parts of disrepair. The nave was abused as a 1815 domain. 1939 made ​​a large fire that village church ruin. The grave chapel of the von Henneberg is now used as the village church. Today you can still see the great temple of Veßra. From 1815 to 1945 belonged to the monastery Veßra Prussia, administratively to the district Schleusingen. The adjacent settlement was always very small. In 1790 there were just 150 inhabitants, in 1910 there were about 250 The place was dominated by the agricultural use of the domain, from 1893 there was also a china factory.

During the Second World War 124 men and women had to perform forced labor, including 98 at the company Krieghoff and 22 on the domain.

When, after the dissolution of the domain in 1945 an agricultural production cooperative ( LPG) was created, a nursery and a sheep plant was operated in place.

Parish council

The local council in Veßra monastery consists of six council members:

• Volunteer Fire 3 seats
• Fire Department Neuhof 2 seats
• Fire Department Kl Veßra 1 seat

(As at municipal election on June 7, 2009)

Culture and sights

Monastery complex and open-air museum

At the edge of the village monastery Veßra the lock opens into the Werra. Not far from the mouth is the former Premonstratensian Veßra.

It is surrounded by a wall, about six acres of monastery courtyard are the ruins of the monastery of St. Mary's Church tower, the most important Romanesque monument in the area between the Rhön, grave field and the Rennsteig. To the ruined monastery there are more buildings of the former monastery as the Torkirche, the exam and a residual group of the cloister.

The foundation of the monastery dates back to the hen Bergische Gotebold Count II († 1144 ) and his wife Liutgard. In 1138 the church was consecrated by Otto of Bamberg. Three years later the monastery received the papal confirmation. For centuries Veßra was the home monastery of the Counts of Henneberg, the ruling in this area to 1583 Dynasty. During the hen bergischen Reformation in 1543, the monastery was gradually secularized and converted into a sovereign domain after the death of the last abbot in 1573; For centuries there was also a stud. The monastery church was used for a long time as a barn and burned in 1939.

After more than four hundred years of use as a sovereign, state domain and later in 1953 as the seat of an LPG got Veßra monastery in 1975 with the advent of the Agricultural History Museum of the district Suhl again a cultural function. Since 1990, the former monastery houses the Henneberg Kloster Veßra in which connect the buildings of the monastery and the time domain there converted rural residential, commercial and municipal buildings to an open air museum.

Old water mill partly in 1600 in Bergisch hen Kloster Veßra

Bibrasche Chapel