The remains of Georgenthal Monastery can be found on the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest, around 16 kilometers south of Gotha. It was founded around 1140 as a Cistercian monastery. The convent experienced its heyday at the beginning of the 16th century, when the scholar Georg Spalatin taught there. All that remains of the once three-aisled columned basilica are the stumps of the columns and the remains of the walls. Nevertheless, Georgenthal Monastery is an important architectural testimony. Among other things, the so-called Kornhaus with its late Romanesque rose window bears witness to its former splendor and grandeur.