The Himmelkron monastery was a Cistercian abbey in Himmelkron in Upper Franconia in the diocese of Bamberg from the 13th to the 16th century. It then served the Bayreuth margraves as a summer residence and hunting lodge until the 19th century. Today it is a dormitory and day care center for people with intellectual disabilities.

The originally Gothic monastery church was changed to Baroque style in the 17th and 18th centuries. Today the collegiate church of St. Maria is an Evangelical Lutheran parish church. Of the other buildings in the monastery, only one wing of the Gothic cloister has survived; most of the current buildings date from the 16th to 18th centuries. The entire building complex is entered in the Bavarian List of Monuments both as a monument and as a ground monument.

See de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Himmelkron

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Andrea und Huskys 🐺

June 28, 2023

What a promise - heavenly crown! The location of the Cistercian monastery founded in 1279 may also have influenced the naming: to protect against flooding, the complex, which grew to a respectable size in the 14th and 15th centuries, towered over the wide valley floor of the Weißen Main.

Even if houses have long since moved towards the monastery, which was dissolved in 1545, the mighty bar of the Gothic church still dominates the place on the edge of the Fichtelgebirge.

The visitor is then all the more surprised in a shortened church: A wall runs through the middle of the nave - the largest of its kind in a German Cistercian monastery - behind it the nuns took part in the service on the gallery, hidden from the lay people. The nine meter high room now houses the Abbey Church Museum. Its exhibits preserve some of the former wealth, of which the preserved cloister wing with late Gothic net vaults and plastic decoration - the angels playing music - gives an idea.

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Gerhard 1300 🍀😎🥉🥈

November 30, 2019

Klosterstift in Himmelkron a beautiful facility

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