Ichtershausen Monastery Church

The monastery church of Ichtershausen is the parish church of the village of Ichtershausen in Thuringia. Until the dissolution of the monastery in 1539, it was the abbey church of a Cistercian nunnery and was transformed into a Protestant church as a result of the Reformation.

Construction of the church began around 1100, and in 1133 it was consecrated as a private church by Frideruna von Grumbach. It is a Romanesque basilica with three naves, a three-apsidal choir, and two massive towers on the western side. In 1147, the church was converted into a monastery. The nave is connected to the main building of the Old Castle; the previously existing connecting paths no longer exist. In 1602, a fire destroyed the north aisle, after which its remains were dismantled and the arches bricked up. In the early 1960s, the princely box and the pulpit altar were demolished. In 2000, the north aisle was rebuilt in a very simplistic manner that does not match the historical building, by prisoners from the Ichtershausen correctional facility.

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