Maulbronn Monastery History, Facts And More
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Maulbronn Monastery
COUNTRY
Germany
ADDRESS
Klosterhof 5, 75433 Maulbronn, Germany
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About Maulbronn Monastery
Maulbronn Monastery is a former abbey located in the Maulbronn city of the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It was a Cistercian abbey and ecclesiastical state of the Holy Roman Empire. It was constructed in 1147. It was dissolved in the sixteenth century after Duke adopted the Lutheran faith. The site is bordered by turreted walls and a tower gate. Today the site is occupied by the Maulbronn town hall, a police station, and other administrative offices. Access to the public part of the church is free while Euro 7 for an adult and Euro 3.5 for a concessional ticket is charged for an inside visit of the monastery.
Some Lesser Known Facts About Maulbronn Monastery
- The site contains a square that connects the main church and living quarters where the monks used to live. There is also a magnificent garden alongside a fountain that adds to its beauty. It looks like a small town surrounded by walls.
- The monastery was self-sufficient and used to perform trade, agriculture, and production at the time.
- It is the best-preserved medieval site in northern Europe. Not the entire monastery was founded at one time. There are different parts that are from the different time periods in the monastery.
- There was an excellent water management system of reservoirs and channels through which monks and other workers fulfill their requirement of water for irrigation and other purposes. There are about twenty natural and artificial lakes as well as ponds over terraces. Also, there were interconnected trenches and canals in the monastery.
- After the monastery was seized, the place was used for different purposes like it served as a hunting lodge and stable for the Duke of Wurttemberg. It was occupied by participating peasants in the German Peasant War in the year 1525.
- There was a heated room in the monastery named calefactory which was heated by lighting a fire in a vaulted chamber under the room. The heat comes to the room through twenty holes in the floor while smoke was funneled outside. Calefactory was the only heated room in the monastery.
- There is also a museum on the second floor of the complex which shows the post-monastic life in the city. There is a three-part literary museum where works of the monks have preserved.
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