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[[File:Astheimoutside2.jpg|thumb|right|Astheim]] <br />
[[File:Astheimoutside.jpg|thumb|right|Astheim]]<br />
[[File:Astheimplaque.jpg|thumb|Plaque in the interior of the chapel explaining the establishment]]<br />
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'''Astheim Charterhouse''', also known as '''Marienbrück Charterhouse''' ({{langx|de|Kloster}} or ''Kartause Astheim'', also ''Kartause Marienbrück''; {{langx|la|Pons Mariae}}),<ref>{{langx|en|Bridge of Mary}}</ref> was a [[Carthusian]] monastery, or charterhouse, in Astheim near [[Volkach]] in [[Kitzingen]], [[Bavaria]], [[Germany]].<br />
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== History ==<br />
The charterhouse was founded on June 2, 1409, by [[Erkinger I. von Seinsheim, Freiherr von Schwarzenberg|Erkinger von Seinsheim]]<ref>Erkinger (1362-1437) acquired Schwarzenberg in 1420, became baron of Schwarzenberg in 1429 and bought Hohenlandsberg in 1435. All later [[House of Schwarzenberg|Schwarzenbergs]] descend from Erkinger and his two wives</ref> and his first wife, Anna [[Bibra family|von Bibra]], as a place of burial for their family, a function which the monastery served for several centuries for Erkinger's descendants, the Barons and later Princes von Schwarzenberg. Erkinger, his second wife Barbara von Abensberg, and Anna's sons Michael and Hermann renewed and confirmed the charterhouse in 1434.<br />
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It was settled by Carthusian monks from [[Cologne Charterhouse]]. It was dissolved in 1803 in the [[German mediatisation|secularisation of Bavaria]].<br />
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In 1804 the buildings passed into the ownership of the Princes of Schwarzenberg, descendants of the founder. Although most buildings were demolished, the church, built 1603–09, and the prior's lodging with a chapel of St. John (1583) remain extant. The church contains a [[Baroque art|Late Baroque]] high altar of 1723–24 with an altarpiece depicting Saint [[Bruno of Cologne]] (founder of the Carthusian Order) and the [[Virgin Mary]] by Oswald Onghers, and [[choir stalls]] of 1606, with Baroque fittings added in 1724.<br />
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Today the surviving buildings on the site accommodate the archives of the town of [[Volkach]] and from 1999 a museum, the ''Kartausenmuseum Astheim'', run by the [[Diocese of Würzburg]], specialising in [[Christianity|Christian]] graphic art, on which theme it has about 600 exhibits.<br />
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==Notes==<br />
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== References ==<br />
* Backmund, Norbert P., 1974: ''Die kleineren Orden in Bayern und ihre Klöster bis zur Säkularisation.'', pp.&nbsp;59ff. Kloster Windberg.<br />
* Link, Georg, nd: ''Klosterbuch der Diözese Würzburg II'', pp.&nbsp;296 ff.<br />
* WILHELM FRHR. VON BIBRA, ''Beiträge zur Familien Geschichte der Reichsfreiherrn von Bibra, Ernster Band'' (vol. 1), 1880, pages 176–177.<br />
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== Sources/ External links ==<br />
{{Commons category|Kloster Pons Mariae Astheim}}<br />
*[http://www.datenmatrix.de/projekte/hdbg/kloster/html-data/geschichte_ks0015.php Klöster in Bayern: Astheim - Kartäuser am Main] {{in lang|de}}<br />
*[http://www.museen.bistum-wuerzburg.de/astheim/ Website of the Diocese of Würzburg: Kartausenmuseum Astheim] {{in lang|de}}<br />
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070928121926/http://www.volkach.de/kultur_kartause_de,4753.html Website of Volkach: Kartausenmuseum Astheim] {{in lang|de}}<br />
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