Eisenach Charterhouse

The charterhouse Domus Vallis Sanctae Elisabeth, dedicated to Saint Elizabeth of Hungary (by her marriage Landgravine of Thuringia), was established in Eisenach in 1378 with the support of Landgraves Frederick III and Balthasar and of William I, Margrave of Meissen.

[3][4] His successor Heinrich Nemritz (prior 1457−1474), served from 1477 to 1482 as General Visitor of the Lower German province of the Carthusian Order.

The Elector John Frederick I had the secularised monastery repaired by 1537 and used it as a country house.

In 1694 Duke John George II of Saxe-Eisenach established an orphanage and a textile mill in the buildings.

Between 1717 and 1721 a new prison and orphanage (Zucht- und Waisenhaus) was set up alongside a cloth manufactory.