Romanesque entrance gatewayModel of the abbey church, the conventual buildings and the lay brothers' building as built c. 1175–1230Mausoleum with the tombs of the WettinsFormer grainstore
Altzella Abbey, also Altzelle Abbey (German: Kloster Altzella or Altzelle, previously Cella or Cella Sanctae Mariae), is a former Cistercian monastery near Nossen in Saxony, Germany. The former abbey contains the tombs of the Wettin margraves of Meissen from 1190 to 1381.
The premises and gardens, surrounded by the precinct wall of the former monastery, and known as the Klosterpark Altzella, are now maintained by the Schloss Nossen/Kloster Altzella Administration, and consist of a Romantic park, ruins and restored buildings, used for various cultural and religious functions, such as Corpus Christi processions. It also hosts conferences and private functions.
AltzellaAbbey, also Altzelle Abbey (German: Kloster Altzella or Altzelle, previously Cella or Cella Sanctae Mariae), is a former Cistercian monastery...
Henry III the White. Neuzelle was a filial monastery of the Cistercian AltzellaAbbey (Cella) near Nossen in Henry's Margraviate of Meissen. A first convent...
He was among the participants of the Third Lateran Council in 1179. AltzellaAbbey was founded during his episcopate, and he made written gifts to it of...
1195. Hedwig died in late March 1203 and was buried on 1 April 1203 in AltzellaAbbey, alongside her husband, who had died in 1190. Hedwig and Margrave Otto...
Catherine of Henneberg (German: Katharina von Henneberg; c. 1334, in Schleusingen – 15 July 1397, in Meissen) was a Countess of Henneberg by birth and...
suggested that it may have been written at the Cistercian abbey of Altzelle (now Altzella). Another work, the Sächsische Weltchronik has been dated about...
appears in 1185. In the description of the border of the territory of AltzellaAbbey we read: " ... ab illo per antiquam Boemie semitam ...". This was a...
Tunisia) Zella-Mehlis, a German town Zella/Rhön, a German municipality AltzellaAbbey, a former monastery near Nossen, Germany Neuzelle a German municipality...
in the Mark of Meissen and in Silesia, and in 1163, the monasteries of Altzella and Leubus were also established in the latter province. At this period...
Landkreis Görlitz Museum at the Zinzendorfplatz Nossen, Landkreis Meißen AltzellaAbbey Park Nossen State Castle Obercunnersdorf, Landkreis Görlitz Bockwindmühle...
church parish. Until then, it was a filial church of Nossen. In 1552, AltzellaAbbey had the manorial rights over Siebeln, as the town was then called. At...
substantial tower. Bishop Dietrich of Meißen arbitrated a dispute between AltzellaAbbey and the lord of Noscin (Nossen) on 29 April 1197. See Gustav Eduard...
constructions and details made of stone, which were most likely brought in via Altzella in Saxony. The Tatar invasions of 1241 led to the decentralization of Silesia...
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