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Abbot's Chapel of Schulpforte Monastery

Abbot's Chapel of Schulpforte Monastery

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Abbot's Chapel of Schulpforte Monastery

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Location: Naumburg (Saale), Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. Kleine Saale – Schulpforta Monastery loop from Bad Kösen

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80m

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2. Schulpforta Monastery – Kleine Saale loop from Naumburg (Saale) Hbf

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70m

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3. Schulpforta Monastery – Kleine Saale loop from Bad Kösen

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310m

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Alwin

February 19, 2023

As soon as you open the door you are impressed. Counts and church leaders are here. Their tombstones are very elaborately worked and worth seeing.

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Michi LE

August 18, 2023

Former Cistercian monastery of Schulpforte, Abbot's Chapel

Construction period
13th century,
around 1230
Architectural style
Gothic
Builder / architect
–
Condition
The former Abbot's Chapel in Schulpforte has been renovated.
Current use
School
Access
The grounds of the Pforta monastery near Naumburg are accessible. The former Abbot's Chapel in Schulpforte can be visited.

Description
Type
The Abbot's Chapel of the former Pforta monastery is a single-nave, two-bay building.
Building structure
Natural stone construction, 5/10 end, rich structure with pilasters, round-arch friezes and buttresses
Interior
Vaults, west gallery
Gravestones
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Surroundings
The abbot's chapel of the former Pforta monastery stands on the eastern edge of the former monastery grounds, attached to the prince's house.
People & History

Bishop Udo I of Naumburg (1137 relocation of the Cistercian monastery founded a few years earlier in Schmölln and occupied by monks from Walkenried Monastery to the Saale)
Duke Moritz of Saxony (after secularization in 1540, one of three Saxon princely schools founded in 1543)

Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/kirchen/schulpforte-abtskapelle-kloster-pforta

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Andi

August 18, 2022

The early Gothic abbot's chapel was originally the chapel of the infirmary and is praised as a "well-preserved and artistically highly remarkable building of the Cistercian early Gothic period". The exterior is structured by pilaster strips, round-arch friezes and buttresses. After the roof cornice was removed in 1892/1893, the polygon was raised to the eaves height of the nave. The round-arch windows are arranged in the polygon sides and in pairs on the nave wall; there is a round window at the apex of the polygon and above the pairs of windows. The interior, vaulted on heavy ribs, is particularly attractive due to the complexity of the architecture and is associated with the works of the Maulbronn Monastery's workshop (Walkenried Monastery, Bishop's Corridor in Magdeburg Cathedral). Because of the round arches used throughout, the imposts are at different heights. The columns have flat bases and bud capitals, which are decorated with elaborate, lively palmette decoration. The "exquisite beauty of the room" is enhanced by the lighting. The small west gallery is accessible from the infirmary.
Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zisterzienserabtei_Pforte

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Location: Naumburg (Saale), Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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Abbot's Chapel of Schulpforte Monastery

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