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Franciscan Monastery, Zeitz

Franciscan Monastery, Zeitz

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Franciscan Monastery, Zeitz

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Location: Zeitz, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. Moritzburg Castle Zeitz – Franciscan Monastery Zeitz loop from Zeitz

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2. Franziskanerkloster Zeitz – Steintor Zeitz loop from Zeitz

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3. Franciscan Monastery Zeitz – Orangery Zeitz loop from Badstubenvorstadt

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Michi LE

September 29, 2022

The exact year in which it was founded is not known, but it was before 1242. When Bishop Engelhard von Naumburg recommended the brothers of the Franciscan order founded in Italy in 1210 in a pastoral letter to the faithful in general in 1238, the monastery probably did not yet exist. The Franciscans first settled in Germany in 1221; the Saxon Franciscan Province (Saxonia), to which the branch in Zeitz belonged, already had 44 monasteries in the middle of the 13th century. The monastery church in Zeitz was built around 1250 according to building history. It is a building in the style of a mendicant order church. In 1266 it was first mentioned by a papal legate. In 1335 the provincial chapter of Saxonia took place in Zeitz, so the buildings must have been of sufficient size.

In the 15th century, the convent in Zeitz, like numerous other monasteries in the Franciscan province of Saxonia, adopted the Martinian constitutions, a moderate form of the observance movement in the order, which went back to an attempt at mediation by Pope Martin V in 1430. In 1517 28 Franciscans lived in the monastery. In 1541, as a result of the Reformation, it was dissolved by the Saxon Duke Johann Friedrich.

Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franziskanerkloster_Zeitz

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Explorer

January 2, 2018

The Franciscan Monastery Zeitz, which is one of the best preserved monasteries in Saxony-Anhalt, was built in 1225.

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Sachsen Onkel

June 14, 2020

The well-preserved monastery complex dates from the middle of the 13th century.

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Franciscan Monastery, Zeitz

1. Moritzburg Castle Zeitz – Franciscan Monastery Zeitz loop from Zeitz

2. Franziskanerkloster Zeitz – Steintor Zeitz loop from Zeitz

3. Franciscan Monastery Zeitz – Orangery Zeitz loop from Badstubenvorstadt

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