Klöster. Geplündert. In den Wirren der Bauernaufstände
In the organizer's words:
In a cabinet exhibition, the State Museum presents finds from two Augustinian monasteries plundered during the Peasants' Wars, which have been under archaeological investigation since 2023: Himmelpforte Monastery near Wernigerode and Kaltenborn Monastery near Allstedt.
The areas that are now Saxony-Anhalt were only a sideshow in the events of the peasant uprisings. The major military and political events around 1525 - battles, sieges, negotiations, seizures of power - took place elsewhere. However, the looting from this period, which has been described quite precisely and extensively in historical sources, can be found in archaeological findings.
Two former monasteries are the focus of the cabinet exhibition in the State Museum: that of the Augustinian hermits of Himmelpforte near Wernigerode and that of the Augustinian canons at Kaltenborn near Allstedt - a central location of Müntzer's activities. Both monasteries were plundered in 1525, abolished during the Reformation and later left to decay.
Together with the Spengler Museum in Sangerhausen and the Harz Museum in Wernigerode, small special exhibitions on the subject are also being prepared at local correspondence sites. At the same time, the ongoing excavations at the authentic sites will be open to the public.
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