# Ohrdruf Priory

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**Ohrdruf Priory** or **Karmel St. Elija, Ohrdruf**, is a [Carmelite](/source/Carmelite) monastery at [Ohrdruf](/source/Ohrdruf,_Thuringia) in [Thuringia](/source/Thuringia), Germany. It is the latest in a series of religious foundations in the town:

## First foundation

A [Benedictine](/source/Order_of_St._Benedict) cell dedicated to [Saint Michael](/source/Michael_(archangel)) was established here by Saint [Boniface](/source/Boniface) in 724–726 (also the date of foundation of the settlement) which seems to have had a school attached. It was given with its lands by Saint [Lull](/source/Lullus) (d. 786) to [Hersfeld Abbey](/source/Hersfeld_Abbey), and apparently did not survive as a Benedictine community beyond the end of the century. It is nevertheless of importance as the first monastery founded in Thuringia.

## Second foundation

In 777 Saint [Lullus](/source/Lullus) established the parish church of [Saint Peter](/source/Saint_Peter). When this was re-founded in 980, a community of [canons](/source/Canon_(priest)) seems also to have been established, which later followed the [Augustinian rule](/source/Rule_of_St._Augustine); they were still subordinate to [Hersfeld Abbey](/source/Hersfeld_Abbey). The monastery at Ohrdruf was the centre of spiritual authority for the region of south-west Thuringia until the middle of the 14th century, but in 1344 was transferred to [Gotha](/source/Gotha_(town)).

## Third foundation

In 1463 the former premises of the canons were occupied by [Carmelite friars](/source/Carmelites), who were dispossessed at the [Reformation](/source/Protestant_Reformation), when the monastery was suppressed and the buildings largely demolished. The remainder was converted into a residence for the Counts of [Gleichen](/source/Gleichen), at that time the owners of Ohrdruf, called "Schloss Ehrenstein", after their ancestral castle. This building is now the town museum, archive and cultural centre.

## Fourth foundation

In 1991 a second Carmelite monastery, the **Karmel St. Elija**, was set up here in a new building dedicated on 15 October, the feast of the Carmelite Saint [Teresa of Avila](/source/Teresa_of_Avila).

## External links

- (in German) [Thuringian Monasticon (University of Erfurt)](http://www.uni-erfurt.de/monasticon/kat-ort-o.htm#Ohrdruf) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20070607061130/http://www.uni-erfurt.de/monasticon/kat-ort-o.htm#Ohrdruf) 2007-06-07 at the Wayback Machine
- (in German) [Religio.de: Ohrdruf](http://www.religio.de/froebel/stadtabc/ohrdruf.html)
- (in German) [Karmel St. Elija website](http://www.karmel-st-elija.de/) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20060515084038/http://www.karmel-st-elija.de/) 2006-05-15 at the Wayback Machine (temporarily unavailable)
- (in German) [Ohrdruf Catholic Community](http://www.ohrdruf-katholisch.de/kloster/)[dead link]

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