On 17 June 983, the village was first mentioned in a document. In 1122, the Free Henry of Bonnrode resigned his entire property with chapel and accessories from the monastery Reinhardsbrunn. In 1150, the estate became a Benedictine convent.
In 1525 during the peasant war, peasants occupied the monastery and drove the nuns out. Everything was devastated. From 1525 to 1539, the most important farm buildings were rebuilt, but the nuns remain in their 12 km distant nunnery near Ottenhausen at Weissensee. They never returned to Bonnrode again.
In 1539, the monastery was abolished under the Reformation and fell to the Duke of Saxony, Henry the Pious. In 1540 he leased the property to a manager who, however, ruined everything again.
Around 1900 there was a manor in Bonnrode. It was managed by two families in the following years.
On March 3, 1958, the estate and the LPG Goldborn were formed in Bonnrode. Following the departure of the last inhabitants in 1980, the buildings fell into disrepair and in 1991 everything was sold to an organic farmer. Everything was renovated and created an orchard. After renewed vacancy, the land and the estate was sold in 2004 by the creditor bank to two inhabitants of Oberbösa, who are among the founding members of the founded on 25 September of the same year Klostergut Bonnrode e.V.
Source: wikipedia.de