List of Carthusian Monasteries - Charterhouses - Germany

Germany

  • Ahrensbök Charterhouse (Kartause Marientempel or Templum Beatae Mariae), Ahrensbök near Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein) (1397–1564)
  • Alhoven Charterhouse (Kartause Alhoven), Alhoven near Bedburg (North Rhine-Westphalia) (1480-1803)
  • Astheim Charterhouse (Kartause Marienbrück), Astheim near Volkach (Bavaria) (1408-1803)
  • Buxheim Charterhouse (Kartause Maria Saal), Buxheim (Bavaria) (1402-1803; the only Imperial charterhouse ; previously a men's collegiate foundation, 1100-1402; from 1926, Salesians)
  • Christgarten Charterhouse (Kartause Christgarten), Ederheim near Nördlingen (Bavaria) (1384–1552; 1631–1648)
  • Cologne Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Barbara), Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia) (1334-1794; the church is now St. Barbara's Evangelical parish church)
  • Crimmitschau Charterhouse (Kartause Jesu Christi Verklärung am Martinstal), Crimmitschau near Neukirchen, Zwickau (Saxony) (1478–1527; formerly a canonry, ruined by the Hussites in 1430)
  • Eisenach Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Elisabeth von Krimmelbach), Eisenach (Thuringia) (1378–1525; now Kartausgarten)
  • Engelgarten Charterhouse, also known as Würzburg Charterhouse (Kartause Engelgarten), Würzburg (Bavaria) (1348/52-1803)
  • Eppenberg Charterhouse, also known as Vogelsberg Charterhouse (Kartause Sancti Johannis Baptistae), Gensungen in Felsberg (Hesse) (1440-1532/1586; previously Premonstratensian canonesses, c. 1217-1438)
  • Erfurt Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Salvatorberg), Erfurt (Thuringia) (1371-1802)
  • Flüren, see Wesel
  • Frankfurt Charterhouse (Kartause Barmherzigkeit Gottes), Frankfurt an der Oder (Brandenburg) (1396–1568)
  • Freiburg Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Johannisberg), Freiburg im Breisgau (Baden-Württemberg) (1346-1782)
  • Grünau Charterhouse (Kartause Neuzelle), Schollbrunn near Hasloch (Bavaria) (c. 1328-1557, 1629–1802)
  • Güterstein Charterhouse (Kartause Güterstein), Güterstein near Bad Urach (Baden-Württemberg) (1439–1535; previously a Cistercian priory and a Benedictine priory)
  • Hildesheim Charterhouse (Kartause Marienkloster), Hildesheim (Lower Saxony) (1387-1777)
  • Ilmbach Charterhouse (Kartause Mariengarten), Ilmbach, Prichsenstadt (Bavaria) (1453-1803)
  • Kiedrich, see Mainz
  • Koblenz Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Beatusberg), Koblenz (Rhineland-Palatinate) (1331-1802)
  • Konradsburg Charterhouse (Kartause Mariæ Verkündigung), Konradsburg near Ermsleben (Saxony-Anhalt) (1477–1525; previously Benedictine monks)
  • Konz Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Bruno), Karthaus, Konz, formerly known as Merzlich (Rhineland-Palatinate) (1680–1802; settled by the displaced community of St. Alban's Charterhouse, Trier)
  • Mainz Charterhouse (Kartause Peterstal, later Kartause Michelsberg), on the Sankt-Michaelsberg, Mainz (Rhineland-Palatinate) (founded 1308 in the Tal Neuhaus or Peterstal in Kiedrich; moved to Mainz 1324; dissolved 1781)
  • Maria Hain Charterhouse (Kartause Maria Hain), Unterrath near Düsseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia) (founded 1869; moved to Bad Wurzach in 1964 as Marienau Charterhouse)
  • Marienau Charterhouse near Bad Wurzach (Baden-Württemberg) (extant since 1964, when the community from Hain settled here)
  • Marienburg Charterhouse (Kartause Marienburg), Weddern in Kirchspiel, Dülmen (North Rhine-Westphalia) (1476-1802)
  • Marienehe Charterhouse (Kartause Marienehe), Rostock (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) (1396–1552)
  • Marienkron Charterhouse (Kartause Marienkron) near Rügenwalde (founded 1394 in Körlin; from 1407 in Rügenwalde; dissolved 1534)
  • Nördlingen, see Christgarten
  • Nuremberg Charterhouse (Kartause Marienzell), Nuremberg (Bavaria) (1380–1525; today part of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum)
  • Prüll Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Veit), Prüll in Regensburg (Bavaria) (1483-1803)
  • Regensburg, see Prüll
  • Rostock, see Marienehe
  • Trier Charterhouse (Kartause Sankt Alban), Trier (Rhineland-Palatinate) (1331-1674; moved to Merzlich, now known as Konz-Karthaus)
  • Tückelhausen Charterhouse (Kartause Heilszelle), Ochsenfurt (Bavaria) (1351-1803)
  • Vogelberg or Vogelsberg, see Eppenberg
  • Vogelsang Charterhouse (Kartause Mariae Mitleiden), near Jülich (North Rhine-Westphalia) (1478-1802)
  • Wesel Charterhouse (Kartause Insula Reginae Coeli), Gravinsel in Flüren, between Wesel and Büderich, Düsseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia) (1417–1590; the community eventually settled a new charterhouse in Xanten, in 1623)
  • Würzburg, see Engelgarten
  • Xanten Charterhouse (Kartause Insula Reginae Coeli), Xanten (North Rhine-Westphalia) (settled by displaced community from Wesel 1623; dissolved 1802)

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