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Germany
Udo I of Naumburg
Pforta monastery
Zisterzienserabtei Pforte
Sachsen- Anhalt
Landesschule Pforta
Schulpforte
Bernard of Clairvaux
Cistercian
Saxony-Anhalt
Saale
abbot`s chapel


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Schulpforte - Zisterzienserabtei Pforte

Schulpforte - Zisterzienserabtei Pforte
After Bishop Udo I of Naumburg who belonged to the House of the Ludowingers, had met Bernard of Clairvaux at the Imperial Diet in Liège in 1131, the Cistercian monastery founded a few years earlier in Schmölln was moved to the Saale River in 1137 and given the name "Claustrum apud Portam". The monks farmed the land around the monastery and made it one of the richest monasteries in East Thuringia.

The monastery church was built in 1150 as a Romanesque basilica and rebuilt from 1251 to 1320 to become today's Gothic monastery church.

After the monastery was secularized in 1540, the Saxon Duke Moritz founded one of the three Saxon princely schools here in 1543, in whose tradition the school "Landesschule Pforta", which is still housed in the former monastery buildings, stands

The abbot`s chapel was built around 1240 as the chapel for the hospital. Until the 19th century the school used the chapel as a laundry and a place to store wood.

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