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Neukloster

In 1219, Heinrich Borwin I founded the nunnery Campus Solis (“Sonnenkamp”) at the foot of the Sonnenberg. Initially, the monastery had been planned to be located closed to Parchow near Neubukow (1210). Due to the founding, the name Neukloster (“new monastery”) soon became popular. Based on a document (1267) and because of its belonging to Doberan monastery, one can assume that the nuns had been living as Cistercians right from the start. The church, once erected over a cross forming plan, today is a redbrick building with a single nave. It has been redesigned in the middle of the 19th century. Remarkable are the stained glass windows from about 1240. Of the originally sixteen windows five are preserved. An altar in the transept shows the Madonna in a aureole and in a rosary. In the course of the Reformation, the convent was dissolved in 1555 and the monastery church became the Lutheran parish church. The monastic buildings decayed and were dismantled. The bricks were used for the building of the Duke's court at Wismar. Beside the church, a separately standing bell tower and the provost's building, erected around 1300 and used as a day care centre now, remain. On the grounds of the former monastery, we now find a local museum and a hostel used for school-trips. Neukloster is turned into a meeting point of locals and guests as well as of history and future.