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Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt

Saalfeld/Saale

Saalfeld City Museum in the Former Franciscan Monastery

Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt

Saalfeld/Saale

Saalfeld City Museum in the Former Franciscan Monastery

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Saalfeld City Museum in the Former Franciscan Monastery

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Location: Saalfeld/Saale, Landkreis Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Thuringia, Germany

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RadlerUnterland🚵‍♂️

September 15, 2024

The former monastery is now a city museum and offers an insight into the history of Saalfeld. The museum offers an impressive cross-section, including Emil Weiske's natural history collection, a geological collection, sacred objects and late medieval sculptures such as late Gothic winged altars.

The Saalfeld City Museum was founded in 1904 and was initially housed in around 80 m² in the eastern cloister. In the decades that followed, it gradually expanded to adjacent areas, but it was not until 1999 that the entire building complex was converted into a museum. As the Saalfeld City Museum, the former Franciscan monastery now has a unified function for the first time since the Reformation. With an exhibition area of around
2700 m², it is one of the most important city and cultural history museums in Thuringia.

Source:
museumimkloster.de/www/kloster/museum/mgeschichte

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JakobusPilger

April 23, 2022

One of the few saints who is also highly valued outside of Christianity is San Francesco, known in the German-speaking world as Francis of Assisi. Francis was born in Assisi in 1181/82 and died in 1226. In his youth as the son of wealthy parents he was a bon vivant, but later he turned to Christ. In the half-ruined little church of San Damiano, on the hillside outside the city walls of Assisi, he was praying one day and heard the voice of Christ coming down from the cross, urging him to “rebuild his church”. At first he took this request literally and restored the church building, later he came to realize that this is primarily about the church as the community of believers.
Many people joined him, and the Order of the Friars Minor of Francis of Assisi was born. Today in the broad Franciscan religious family there are three male branches: the Franciscans, the Minorites and the Capuchins; and two females: the Franciscans and the Poor Clares.
His burial church in Assisi, the Basilica of San Francesco, which did not even exist during Francis' lifetime, is nevertheless one of the great "original shrines" of the Franciscan religious family. It can be found here as a hiking highlight under this link: komoot.de/highlight/138624

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Chris S_trandläufer

May 21, 2022

Always open Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m

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Saalfeld City Museum in the Former Franciscan Monastery

1. Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes – Bergfried Park, Saalfeld loop from Obernitz

2. Saalfeld Fairy Grottoes – Mittelweg Hut loop from Garnsdorf

3. Saalfeld Market Square – Villa Bergfried and its Park loop from Obernitz

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