Name: Goseck Castle Church (Former Benedictine Monastery Church)
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Goseck Castle Church (Former Benedictine Monastery Church)

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Goseck Castle Church (Former Benedictine Monastery Church)

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Location: Goseck, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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1. View of the Saale Valley – Schlossschenke Goseck loop from Goseck

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2. View of the Saale Valley – Goseck Castle loop from Eulau

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3. Goseck Castle – Leißling Ferry Bridge loop from Goseck

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Michi LE

September 26, 2023

Former. Benedictine monastery church Goseck

construction time

11th century, 1st half of the 13th century (substructure southwest tower),

1056 (consecration)

Architectural style

Romanesque

Builder/architect

–

Condition

The former monastery church in Goseck has been renovated.

Todays use

profane

Access

The former monastery church in Goseck cannot be visited.

Description

type

Of the monastery church in Goseck, only the eastern building and the substructure of the southwest tower remain.

Building structure

Quarry stone building, square choir and transept made of three squares with side apses

inner space

flat-roofed, three-sided, two-story gallery, organ (Friedrich Ladegast)

Tombstones

Marble epitaph Bernhard von Pölnitz (1628),

Marble epitaph of the Alvensleben couple (1714, 1716)

Further information

Environment

The former Benedictine monastery church in Goseck stands on the site of the former ancestral castle of the Count Palatine of Saxony, which was followed by the monastery and, after secularization, a manor with a Renaissance castle.

persons

Archbishop Adalbert of Bremen (conversion of the ancestral seat of the Count Palatine of Saxony into a Benedictine monastery)

Source: architektur-blicklicht.de/kirchen/goseck-klosterkirche-burgenlandkreis

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Andre

June 6, 2024

The castle church is worth seeing and can be visited for a donation.

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Elevation 190 m

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Location: Goseck, Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

Goseck Castle Church (Former Benedictine Monastery Church)

1. View of the Saale Valley – Schlossschenke Goseck loop from Goseck

2. View of the Saale Valley – Goseck Castle loop from Eulau

3. Goseck Castle – Leißling Ferry Bridge loop from Goseck

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