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Dominican Convent Cronschwitz

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Dominican Convent Cronschwitz

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  • Location: Wünschendorf/Elster, Greiz, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

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    February 10, 2024

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    In the Middle Ages, the Cronschwitz monastery was the most important women's monastery in the Vogtland, whose nuns came primarily from the founding family of the bailiffs and their feudal nobility.
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    The monastery Cronschwitz is a former Dominican nunnery in Cronschwitz to Wünschendorf / Elster in the district of Greiz.
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    Building ensemble of the former Dominican convent in Cronschwitz - donated in 1238 as a pure aristocratic convent for the unmarried daughters of the Vogtland nobility; as the house monastery of the bailiffs of Weida, Gera, Plauen and the House of Reuss, this monastery was equipped with numerous rights as a partial burial place and was the richest in the Vogtland until the Reformation; today there are only a few remains of the wall (monastery garden, monastery church), the former guest house (today the vicarage) as well as the refectory and coach house;
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    Elevation 220 m

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    Location: Wünschendorf/Elster, Greiz, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany

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