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Monastery and World Heritage Site in Germany | WIKI |
Maulbronn MonasteryGerman: Kloster MaulbronnMaulbronn Abbey, circa 2017 Location map and basic information Location in Germany, Baden-Wxc3xbcrttembergShow map of GermanyMaulbronn Monastery (Baden-Wxc3xbcrttemberg)Show map of Baden-Wxc3xbcrttembergGeneral informationLocationMaulbronn, GermanyCoordinates49xc2xb00xe2x80xb24xe2x80xb3N 8xc2xb048xe2x80xb246xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf49.00111xc2xb0N 8.81278xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 49.00111; 8.81278Coordinates: 49xc2xb00xe2x80xb24xe2x80xb3N 8xc2xb048xe2x80xb246xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf49.00111xc2xb0N 8.81278xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 49.00111; 8.81278 Websitewww.kloster-maulbronn.de/en/home UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficialxc2xa0nameMaulbronn Monastery ComplexCriteriaCultural (ii), (iv)Reference546revInscription1993 (17th session) | WIKI |
The monastery complex, one of the best-preserved in Europe, was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. | WIKI |
The monastery was founded in 1147 and experienced rapid economic and political growth in the 12th century, but then hardship in the late 13th century and the 14th century. | WIKI |
Over the 16th century, the Cistercian monastery was dissolved and replaced with a Protestant seminary. | WIKI |
The monastery itself contains an Evangelical seminary and a boarding school. | WIKI |
In 1138, a free knight named Walter von Lomersheim donated an estate at Eckenweiher (now Mxc3xbchlacker)[1] to the Cistercian Order for the establishment of a new monastery. | WIKI |
This began a period of economic expansion for the monastery,[10] which aggressively pursued the acquisition of new territory,[2] starting with the nearby Fxc3xbcllmenbacherxc2xa0[de] and Elfinger Hofs, in 1152 and 1153 respectively. | WIKI |
In 1156, Emperor Frederick I issued a decree that exempted Maulbronn from paying tithes and placed the monastery under his protection. | WIKI |
The monastery's holdings were again confirmed by Pope Alexander III in 1177; by then, Maulbronn owned seventeen farmsteads. | WIKI |
However, the number of lay brothers at Maulbronn dwindled over the 13th century, owing to conflict between them and the monks,[12] and as a result the monastery increasingly relied on hired laborers to work its land. | WIKI |
There was persistent conflict with the Enzbergs, however,[13] and one dispute in 1270 even saw the monastery temporarily suppressed. | WIKI |
Emperor Charles IV transferred the vogtei of Maulbronn to the Electoral Palatinate in 1372, but this act drew the monastery into the power struggle between the Palatinate and the expanding County of Wxc3xbcrttemberg. | WIKI |
[2][14] Its abbots demonstrated the monastery's wealth in 1450, when it made easily the largest contribution of any Cistercian abbey that year to Cxc3xaeteaux Abbey, the order's seat. | WIKI |
Ulrich subsequently had Maulbronn's vogtei transferred to him, effectively annexing the monastery and its territories into the Duchy of Wxc3xbcrttemberg. | WIKI |
In 1525, the monastery was occupied by peasants participating in the German Peasants' War in 1525[16] and the monks were expelled. | WIKI |
The Thirty Years' War forced the monastery school to close until 1656. | WIKI |
In the later years of the 17th century, Duke Louis III tasked his court architect, Georg Beerxc2xa0[de], with renovating the monastery for the seminary. | WIKI |
In that time, Louis III had a hunting lodge built on the monastery grounds, likely designed by Beer. | WIKI |
Efforts to preserve and restore the medieval character of the monastery complex began in 1840. | WIKI |
The monastery school was taken over by the Nazi Party in 1941. | WIKI |
An average of 235,000 persons visit the monastery each year as of 2019. | WIKI |
Map of the monastery complex | WIKI |
[30] The monastery was constructed in the 12th century in a Romanesque style,[31] though little of the 12th century work xe2x80x93 the portal and its original doors xe2x80x93 has been preserved. | WIKI |
The monastery as a whole survives due mostly to the Dukes of Wxc3xbcrttemberg. | WIKI |
The monastery was protected by a stone wall, a drawbridge gate, and five towers. | WIKI |
Just behind the gatehouse are the pharmacy, originally an inn, and the residence of the monk responsible for giving early morning mass to guests at the monastery. | WIKI |
To the north of the gate is the monastery's administrative and economic buildings. | WIKI |
Along the western wall of the monastery are what used to be the blacksmithy and wheelwright's workshops. | WIKI |
Just north of the city hall is the Haberkasten, used as a granary, and adjacent to that is the workplace and residence of the monastery's chief baker. | WIKI |
Plan of the monastery. | WIKI |
At the center of the monastery complex is the abbey, where the monks and lay brothers lived and prayed. | WIKI |
The monastery had strict divisions between the two groups. | WIKI |
[43] The frescoes within the church depict the Adoration of the Magi, the entrance of Maulbronn's founder Walter von Lomersheim into the monastery as a lay brother. | WIKI |
Also present are the coats of arms of nobles who donated to the monastery's construction. | WIKI |
[49] The kitchen that supplied the two refectories is located between them, but arranged such to keep smoke and odors away from the rest of the monastery. | WIKI |
[52] It was the only heated room in the monastery. | WIKI |
A corridor on the eastern side of the cloister goes to a Late Gothic connecting building, built by lay brother Conrad von Schmie, leading to the monastery hospital, the Ephorat. | WIKI |
Nearby are the ruins of the Pfrxc3xbcndhaus, where donors who had bought a life pension from the monastery resided. | WIKI |
In the southeast corner of the complex is the Faustturm, the tower where Johann Georg Faust is alleged to have lived while staying at the monastery in 1516. | WIKI |
[57] By draining the wetlands around the monastery and digging a series of canals,[56] the monks created some 20 ponds and lakes. | WIKI |
A local stream, the Salzach, was diverted to flow under the monastery to form its sewerage. | WIKI |
Scale model of the monastery complex in the monastery museum | WIKI |
On the ground floor is a diorama of the monastery complex and on the second floor is a museum room detailing post-monastic life at Maulbronn. | WIKI |
Within the monastery complex is a three-part literary museum, "Besuchen-Bilden-Schreiben",[66] operated by the state of Baden-Wxc3xbcrttemberg. | WIKI |
Next is "Learn", dedicated to the monastery's use as a Protestant seminary and with a focus on alumni of the seminary such as Johannes Kepler, Friedrich Hxc3xb6lderlin, and Herman Hesse. | WIKI |