Malchow Abbey

The monastery Malchow is a former Magdalene gutters, a Cistercian monastery in the village location Malchow in Mecklenburg Lake District Mecklenburg -Vorpommern. The monastery is located on the eastern shore of Lake Malchow.

History

1274 in New Robel convent of the Penitents in the footsteps of Mary Magdalene ( see sorores penitentes Marie Magdalene ) founded on Lake Müritz. On May 29, 1298, the monastery by Bishop Godfrey I of Bülow from the Havelberger diocese into the archdeaconry goods in the village of Old Malchow been re-erected on the southern shore of Lake Malchow next to the city church. The Order first lived according to the Rule of St. Augustine, and later to the Cistercian Constitutions.

Nikolaus von Werle transferred to the monastery in 1298 the church patronage to Old and New Malchow and Lexow.

After the Reformation, the monastery was converted in Article 4 of Sternberger Assekuration July 2, 1572, a noble lady pen and transferred the Estates. The monastery and the monastery Dobbertin Ribnitz it was the country's three monasteries. As a follower of the Revolution of 1918 the estates were abolished as a corporation, the country's first monasteries placed under state supervision and abolished completely by the Constitution of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and the Introductory Law of 17 May 1920. At this time, existing enrollments, however, remained unaffected.

The former monastery is dominated by the monastery church. This was built from 1844 to 1849 after plans Friedrich Wilhelm Buttels. So a 52 -foot brick tower was added and then renewed for optical reasons from 1847 to 1849 and the nave. After a fire in 1888 it was built 1888-1890 in neo-Gothic style according to plans by George Daniels again. Before the construction of the church from 1235 there was a simple stone church on the monastery grounds. From the old abbey still exist the historic cloister and some buildings that are used for residential purposes.

Others

At the monastery complex also includes the so-called Engelsche garden. This was created by Johann Jacob Christian Engel (1762-1840), master chef in the period from 1786 to 1818 in the monastery. It was not until 1855/56, the garden was finally completed.

In the monastery church and the nearby Orgelhof is the exhibition on the history of Mecklenburg organ building. The Mecklenburg Organ Museum is the first of its kind in the new federal states. In the monastery church itself is an organ by Friedrich Friese III.