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Wünschendorf/Elster

Dominican Convent Cronschwitz

Wünschendorf/Elster

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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June 8, 2019

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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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January 19, 2022

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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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