Ilmbach Charterhouse is a former Carthusian

Carthusian

The Carthusian Order, also called the Order of St. Bruno, is a Roman Catholic religious order of enclosed monastics. The order was founded by Saint Bruno of Cologne in 1084 and includes both monks and nuns...

 monastery, or charterhouse, in Prichsenstadt

Prichsenstadt

Prichsenstadt is a town in the district of Kitzingen, Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany....

 in Bavaria

Bavaria

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, Germany

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History

The monastery, dedicated to Our Lady, was founded in 1453 by the knight Balthasar Fere vom Berge and his wife Magdalena von Vestenberg.

It was dissolved in 1803 in the secularisation of Bavaria

German Mediatisation

The German Mediatisation was the series of mediatisations and secularisations that occurred in Germany between 1795 and 1814, during the latter part of the era of the French Revolution and then the Napoleonic Era....

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The property was purchased by Baron Friedel, who installed a cheese factory and a sugar factory in the premises. In 1836 there were still remains of the monastery church, but these have disappeared. On the site of the charterhouse a hunting lodge was later constructed.

Sources and external links

• Klöster in Bayern: Ilmbach – Schweigende Mönche im Mariengarten