Kartause St. Maria, Rostock (Marienehe)

Monastery in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, dating from 1301

Marienehe Charterhouse, also sometimes referred to as Rostock Charterhouse (German: Kartause Marienehe, Kartause Himmelszinnen or Kartause Rostock), was a Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, in Marienehe, now a suburb of Rostock in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. The estate of Marienehe was bought in 1393 by the Rostock merchant and statesman Winold Baggel or Baggele, who in 1396 (1396), when he was Bürgermeister of Rostock, together with his father-in-law, Matthias von Borken, founded the charterhouse here. The monastery was noted for the extent to which it favoured university education f

From Marienehe Charterhouse on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.

Type:
Monastery

Period:
1301

Where:
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

Coordinates:
54.11°N, 12.09°E

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