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Goseck Castle Church (former Benedictine monastery church)

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

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