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Schulpforta, otherwise known as Pforta, is a school located in Pforta monastery, a former Cistercian monastery (1137–1540). The school is located near Naumburg on the Saale River in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt .
The Pforta monastery is a former Cistercian monastery located near Naumburg in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It was established in the 1130s and prospered in the Middle Ages. In the course of the Reformation the monastery was disbanded in 1540. Today the buildings are used by the school Landesschule Pforta.
pforta, abbey of (Schulpforta, Porta ), Cistercian abbey in Thuringia, Germany, Diocese of Naumburg; founded 1132; secularized 1540. In 1127 Count Bruno of Pleissengau founded, near Schm ö lln, a convent for nuns.
Originally a Cistercian abbey called Porta Coeli (Gate of Heaven), Pforta (‘Gate’ – now to education rather than heaven) had been transformed into a school in 1543 by the Prince-Elector Moritz of Saxony, a ‘dissolution’ and recycling of the monasteries that was a major plank of the Protestant Reformation.
Since 1815 Pforta belongs to Prussia, and even at the present day the school is held in high esteem. The church was built in the thirteenth century; it is a cross-vaulted, colonnaded basilica with an extraordinarily long nave, a peculiar western facade, and a late Romanesque double-naved cloister.
Pforta from air. The monastery of Pforta was created by the Cistercian Order. The premises include functional buildings, the Romanesque House , the Kleine Saale canal, as well as the vineyards of Köppelberg and Saalhäuser.
Since 1815 Pforta belongs to Prussia, and even at the present day the school is held in high esteem. The church was built in the thirteenth century; it is a cross-vaulted, colonnaded basilica with an extraordinarily long nave, a peculiar western façade, and a late Romanesque double-naved cloister.
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