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Morschen - Kloster Haydau 04

Former cloister Haydau lies in the district Alt-Morschen of the municipality Morschen in the Schwalm Eder Kreis in Hesse. It is the cloister best of all preserved in his architectural continuance of the Cisterciansinnen in Hesse.

 

In 1232 landgrave Konrad von Thüringen and his field captain Friedrich von Treffurt to Spangenberg attacked the Mainz broad city of Fritzlar. They pillage and threaten to burn the town, they burnt down and looted the conventual church Saint Peter. Friedrich's family to the Fritzlarer provost Gumbert offered to the penalty obliged her endowment around the moor, so Haydau. On the 23rd of January, 1235 provost Gumbert confirmed this handing over to the Cisterciansinnen.

 

In the middle of the 14th century cloister of Haydau had developed not only to a spiritual-cultural, but also an economic centre in which the landgraves of Hessian had pledged towns and villages.

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