Wadgassen Abbey

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Representation of the abbey in 1736
Large convent seal of the Wadgassen Abbey with the depiction of the Virgin Mary as an apocalyptic woman ( Rev 12,1  EU )
Bous, forester's house of the Wadgassen Abbey, Saarbrücker Strasse
Wadgasserhof in Kaiserslautern
Wadgassen, remains of the base zone of the baroque abbey church as the foundations of workshops
Wadgassen, outlet center on the former abbey site with remains of the wall of the former church

The St. Maria Abbey in Wadgassen was a Premonstratensian abbey in the southwest of what is now Saarland at the confluence of the Bist in the Saar .

history

Wadgassen, figure torso of the so-called "Wadgasser Angel", yellow sand-lime brick, probably 13th century, probably cover plate of a grave tumba in the monastery church of the former abbey church of Wadgassen

The Königshof Wadgassen ("Villa Wadegozzinga") was mentioned for the first time on September 19, 902 as the location of a document from Ludwig the child . In 1080 King Heinrich IV handed over the Villa Wadgassen ("Villa Wuadegozzingen") to his faithful Sigibert in a document issued in Mainz when he was appointed Count in the lower Saargau :

“In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity, Heinrich, under God's gracious protection, the fourth, King. Let it be announced to all believers, both now living and future generations, that we, at the mediation of our beloved consort Bertha and at the request of our faithful, Bishop Conrad, who has his seat in Utrecht , and Duke Theodoric as well as several other of our faithful One of our vassals with the name Sigebert a farmstead with the name Vuadegozingen, which is in the Saargau and in the county of the said Sigebert, with all accessories, that is with the serfs of both sexes, the courtyard, the buildings, fields, meadows, pastures, cultivated and undeveloped land, the water and drainage of the water, mills, mills, fishing, forests, hunting, exits and accesses, passable and impassable, income and taxes, in short with any usufruct that can be drawn from them, transferred as property and in such a way that this same Sigebert completely free Ge over the aforementioned property for the sequence walt have in relation to possession, assignment, exchange, gift, sale, or whatever he wants to do with it. And so that this declaration of our transference may last for the long term and unshakably for all time, We sign this document, as can be seen below, for confirmation with our own hands and have arranged that it be marked by embossing our seal. In the year of Christ's Incarnation 1080; around the time of the III. Church assembly drawn up. This is what happened in the 27th year after the election of Mr. Heinrich IV. As king, in the 26th year of his reign, at Mainz in the name of Christ with the wish of a happy success. So be it. "

Two of Sigibert's sons held high ecclesiastical positions as clergy, the Speyer Bishop Bruno of Saarbrücken and the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I of Saarbrücken . Upon the death of Sigibert principal heir, Friedrich von Saarbrücken , his widow, Gisela, a granddaughter of Count Dietmar bequeathed by Selbold-Gelnhausen , and their son Simon I of Saarbrücken in 1135 according to a vow of deceased possession Wadgassen the church of Trier with all rights to found an Augustinian canon monastery . In the vicinity of Wadgassen there was a similar monastery in St. Arnual upstream from the late Middle Ages . The Wadgasser Stift was dedicated to the Virgin Mary . The aim of the donation was that soul masses to save the soul of the deceased count and the souls of his ancestors from purgatory should be read in the newly founded monastery .

The Archbishop of Trier, Albero von Montreuil , placed the monastery under a bailiwick , which de facto remained with the Counts of Saarbrücken , and granted him the right to preach, baptism and burial rights as well as the free election of abbots:

“In the name of the holy and undivided Trinity . Albero, by God's grace Archbishop of the Holy Church of Trier. In view of our duty of duty, and in fear of the Lord as our judge, if we are to blame for negligence, we enjoy tireless care for the churches entrusted to us, and, as far as we can, we are zealous for them in the present their advancement and growth and, by virtue of our office, ensure that both those properties that are still to be acquired, and especially those that have already been acquired, have peace and stability for the future. Therefore, we wish that all believers, both now living, of course, as well as the later generations, that the mistress Gisela, the widow of Count Friedrich von Saarbrücken, in community with her son Simon, all of her paternal inheritance in Wadgassen with the sole exception of the count's ministerials , to save their and their parents' souls in accordance with a vow and ordinance, given by their above-mentioned husband, the count, to Saint Peter in our presence with all accessories and such unlimited freedom that they neither have the bailiff right (i.e. patronage and the jurisdiction) nor any other rights reserved for itself or any of its heirs.

But the donations she made are as follows: The church with all tithe lands , her own dominals , the Hubner and their Huben and with all their jurisdiction, the servants of both sexes, fields, forests, meadows, pastures, cultivated and undeveloped lands, the water, mills, fisheries, with all their usufruct that one could have obtained from it in any way.

But this was done with the intention that a church would be built there in honor of the holy Theotokos, Mary , at which brothers, who serve God according to the rule of St. Augustine , would receive from the goods mentioned, and both we and ours Successors will carefully watch that they never deviate from the strictness of the rule. Therefore, with the greatest willingness and guilty advocacy, we have undertaken the execution of this pious decision made in praise of God and approved it and endowed that church with such freedom that neither we nor any of our successors interfere with the brethren there by any coercion and these in turn only have the bishop as patron.

But we have also given them the power to preach, baptize and bury, and we have even freed the canons from all subservience to the choir bishop and any other person, so that they owe no obedience to anyone except us and our Catholic successors, who however have no powers the latter are allowed to take advantage of them, since they have been given freedom in every way to elect the abbot from among themselves and from among them, according to the provisions of the Fathers , and the confirmation of the electoral act they have carried out and the confirmation from the bishop Accept the consecration of the chosen freely. If, however, they have not found a sufficiently suitable personality within their monastery, they should be free to choose in the name of the Lord a personality inspired by the same creed and the same intentions, whatever suitable one they have found elsewhere.

We have also decided to entrust to the same abbot the duties of the pastoral ministry, to be entrusted to him forever by the hand of his bishop, so that they may indulge in the praises of God without any alarm. In addition, we have relieved that parish church of all jurisdiction of the choir bishop and the deacon and of all taxes, apart from only six denarii , and of all services which were owed to the choir bishop every fourth year , which were performed at the altar of St. Peter on the feast of the same in Trier .

We have confirmed the correctness of what is written on this sheet by the impression of our seal , by decreeing and forbidding all Christians under penalty of eternal bans that anyone should act against it or undertake to attack or destroy it, but so that it may remain firm and unshakable forever. And this we have done by virtue of the authority received from Almighty God and the Prince of the Apostles Peter.

But if someone, after these important matters have been established in so manifold and such strong ways, wants to take something away from them, interpret them for evil or confiscate the documents, it shall be done to him as Haman the Agagite , as Judas the traitor , and from the community of all saints he would be regarded as a stranger, with the devil and his angels he would be lifted up as a torment for the eternal fire .

To better confirm the inviolability, the names of the witnesses who were present at this handover are noted below: The head of the main church, the dean Folmarus, the archdeacon Arnolphus, the archdeacon Milo, the master Winricus, the cantor Eberhard, the distinguished lay people, the Count Ludovicus, Gerhardus, Brunecho, Waltherus, Fridelo, Theodoricus, Adelbertus. The ministerials: Ludovicus, Erfo, Ludovicus, Sigebodo, Engelbertus, Fridericus.

Negotiated at Trier in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1135, at the time of the 13th indiction under the most glorious government of Emperor Lothar III. , in the tenth year of his reign as king, in the third of his reign as emperor, in the fourth year of our pontificate . "

Until the completion of a new monastery church, the first monks, under their abbot Wolfram, used the Wadgasser Nikolauskapelle, which stood in the middle of a swamp on an island, what is now the “Kapellenwies” district. This chapel stood until 1682 when the French used the stones to build Saarlouis fortress . On October 2, 1137, Archbishop Albero consecrated the newly built convent church, which served as the burial place of the Counts of Saarbrücken until the 14th century. At the end of the 15th century, the church and convent building were largely rebuilt.

Originally, Wadgassen belonged to the reform district of the Springiersbach monastery in the Eifel . Since the end of the 12th century, Wadgassen has been occupied as a monastery of the Premonstratensian Order. The order is an association of independent monasteries (canonies) and was founded in 1120 by Norbert von Xanten in the Prémontré Abbey near Laon , on remote ownership of the Prüm Abbey .

In the following centuries, the Abbey Wadgassen which developed into a spiritual and cultural center of the region Zirkarie Wadgassen of Upper Lorraine over southern Germany until the resin reached. Since the late Middle Ages, the Wadgassen Abbey has owned over 200 estates, farmsteads and mills, provosts, patronage rights and parish churches. For example, the Wadgasserhof , a medieval hospital with an attached farm in Kaiserslautern , is one of these former estates. Rare documents show a double convention with monks and nuns in the 13th century.

Jean Baptiste Bordier, last abbot (1784–1792) of Wadgassen Abbey

In 1766 the abbey was detached from the territory of the Holy Roman Empire and added to the Kingdom of France. A few years after the French Revolution , the abbey was abandoned in 1792. Abbot Bordier reported on the dissolution of the monastery in an act drawn up in Bous on September 5, 1792:

“We, the abbot, prior and monks, who make up the house and community of the Wadgassen Abbey of the Order of the Premonstratensians, have informed that after the decree passed by the National Assembly on July 29th and not confirmed (by the King), the Saarlouis district wanted to use every means in order not only to deprive us of our rights and possessions, both movable and immovable, but also to exert all harassment and persecution against our persons, had decided to endure and endure everything until they are Will take the opportunity to perform our professional duties.

Treated unworthily by the National Guards and the members of the district mentioned, who have seized our house, insulted into the sanctuary by the same National Guards who, hats on their heads, tobacco pipes in their mouths, bayonets on rifles, us at the altars When we met and opposed the celebration of the Holy Mass, we hoped that our steadfastness and devotion to our class would touch the most hardened hearts; but it turned out differently.

On the 4th of this month Sieur (Herr) Frantz, who exercised the functions of an official trustee (procureur Syndic) , after a strong detachment of hussars, national guards and gendarmes had preceded him, set out from Saarlouis; One of the latter with a bared saber, the other with a rifle loaded and bayonet: this is how they penetrated the abbey courtyard. After they had seized all entrances and exits of the house, they had a man named Andreas Haehn, who ran an inn in front of our monastery and our hunting warden Johann Jacob and our cook Michel Becker, and after they had made sure of these private individuals they asked Herr Wetteldorf, sub-prior of our abbey, to explain to them where the abbot, the prior and the caterer were, as well as where the (alleged) weapons depot, which they claimed was in the house, was. When our sub-prior replied that the first two gentlemen mentioned were unwell and that the latter had gone for a walk and that there was no weapons depot in the house, they had the kitchen master's door knocked down, where they carried out searches in vain, as well as in various others Living spaces and locations of the house, after all, after the aforementioned Mr. Frantz, after allowing himself all kinds of insults and insults against us, we were threatened that he would come the following day with more terrible equipment to lock us up.

We, the undersigned, who wanted to spare religion a scandal and who we feared the greatest riots and the violent kidnapping of our people, especially after the decree of the 26th of last August, believed that we should leave our monastery premises and after the (German) Emigrate empires, where we benefit from divine providence and from the guarantee of the exchange treaty of 1766, which incorporated us into the sovereignty of France with the express condition that our status, our possessions and rights be preserved under the same condition - the reparation of the excesses perpetrated against us and wait for violence. Desiring to deposit them for posterity, as well as our reclamations and our real intentions, we declare that we will protest anew against everything that has been done to the abbey in question, in contravention of the abbey mentioned, also declare that our firm and ultimate The decision is to remain united in community, to fulfill our functions wherever we will be and to follow the administration and constitution of the Order.

Done at Bous, September 5, 1792

drawn by Bordier, Abbé; F. Reiss, Prieur; F. Wetteldorf, Superior; F. Schmidt, Procureur; F. Haas, Depensier; F. Dufaz; F. Geffrath; E. Heppert; F. Hoffmann; F. Pauly; F. Fissabre; F. Diniche; F. Neubecker, F. Faulbecker; F. Froeauff; Prost le jeune; F. Daniel - Secretaire. "

From Bous, the monks first fled to their provost in Ensheim . Here they finally had to part. The local chaplains of the monastery continued to care for their parishes in secret. On October 10, 1793, Abbot Jean Baptiste Bordier and Procurator Schmidt sent Emperor Franz II a petition in the hope of regaining possession of the monastery property. Bordier died on July 30, 1799 in the Strahov Premonstratensian Monastery in Prague, where he had resided since 1796, and was buried in the Kleinprag churchyard . Bordier had stipulated in his will that his entire property should be used for a possible re-establishment of the Wadgassen monastery or, if this was not possible in the old location, a new monastery should be founded outside the French sphere of influence on the left bank of the Rhine. In the event of a French occupation of the entire area on the left bank of the Rhine, the money should be distributed among the former Wadgasser monastery brothers. The Strahov Abbot Wenzeslaus Mayer was appointed executor.

Wadgassen Abbey became a quarry after the monks fled. Of the once mighty main building complex, only the large abbey courtyard remained. In 1843, the Villeroy & Boch company opened a crystal glass factory on the site. Large-scale production was discontinued in 1986 and production of the “Treveris” crystal glass series was completely terminated in the early 1990s. Until 2010, crystal glass was still produced for demonstration purposes. A so-called Factory Outlet Center has been located on the company premises since October 2012 .

The Adt paper mache dynasty emerged from the Ensheim branch of Wadgassen Abbey .

Wadgassen, outlet center on the former abbey site
Wadgassen, Parish Church Parish Church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

The Marian patronage of the former Wadgassen abbey church is continued today by the neo-Romanesque Wadgasser parish church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary, which was built between 1880 and 1882 .

List of the Wadgasser Abbots

  • Wolfram: 1135-1158, I. Dept.
  • Feregrinus: 1158–1168, II. Dept.
  • Godefried: 1171-1201, III. Dept
  • Peregrinus: 1207-1218, IV. Dept.
  • Reinerus: 1218-1260, V. Dept.
  • Henricus: 1260-1269, VI. Dept
  • Nicolaus: 1269-1288, VII. Abbot
  • Isenbardus: 1289–1301, VIII. Dept.
  • Matthew: 1301-1319, IX. Dept
  • Johannes von Kaiserslautern: 1319-1328, X. Abt
  • Rudolphus: 1328-1339, XI. Dept
  • Virricus: 1339-1353, XII. Dept
  • Reinoldus: 1353-1358, XIII. Dept
  • Gerlac von Randeck: 1358-1381, XIV. Abbot
  • Philip de Flamburn: 1381-1395, XV. Dept
  • Lambert von Forweiler: 1395-1404, XVI. Dept
  • Jean de Lutra: 1404-1427, XVII. Dept
  • Philip II of Kaiserslautern: 1427-1453, XVIII. Dept
  • Antonius Jost: 1453–1473, XIX. Dept
  • Jean de Forstweiler: 1473–1478, XX. Dept
  • Paulus Tronz: 1478–1510, XXI. Dept
  • Johann von Tholey: 1510–1525, XXII. Dept
  • Kilian Heilmann: 1525–1540, XXIII. Dept
  • Leonhard Pfalz: 1541-1549, XXIV
  • Richardus: 1549–1552, XXV. Dept
  • Seifrid: 1552-1571
  • Adamus Werbel: 1571–1579
  • Claudius Bisten: 1579–1607
  • Johann von Berus: 1607–1634
  • Johannes Livensis: 1634-1636
  • Philippus Gretsch: 1636-1667
  • Jean Adami: 1667-1677
  • Petrus Marx: 1678-1705
  • Hermann Mertz: 1705-1743
  • Michael Stein: 1743–1778
  • Pierre Schmitt: 1778–1783
  • Jean Baptist Bordier: 1784–1792

architecture

Panoramic picture of the abbey courtyard
Wadgassen, pond on the former abbey grounds

The preserved "Abbey Courtyard" is the former administration building of the monastery. The simple baroque building with hipped roofs dates from the first half of the 18th century and was planned and built by the Ebernburg master builder Bernhard Trabucco. It was restored in the 1990s and now houses the German Newspaper Museum . A hospital and two farm buildings have also been preserved.

The former monastery church, of which only the foundation walls can still be seen, was built between 1748 and 1757 by Johann Heinrich Eckhardt. The building complex is now a listed building.

The former monastery building with a slate-covered half -hip roof on the road between Wadgassen and Bous (Saarstraße 14) was probably built in the 18th century as the gatehouse of the Premonstratensian Abbey. It was rebuilt in the 19th century and is a listed monument in the Saarlouis district. The historic gatehouse is managed by the Wadgassen Outlet Center. It is in a badly neglected state and is visibly deteriorating.

The two-storey, eaves-facing plastered building of the forester's house of Wadgassen Abbey in Bous was built in 1756 by the master builder of Wadgassen Abbey, Johann Heinrich Eckhardt. The elongated building has a baroque portal typical of the time. The segmented arched windows are adorned with an accentuated wedge stone. The building has six window axes, in the seventh there is only a small, round window on the upper floor. The corners of the building are decorated with square blocks. The facade has a modern pink paint. In 1803, the forester Wilhelm de Marney, who lived in the forester's house, bought the property at auction. Around the year 1850, the Arweiler family took over the property and ran an inn and the Saar ferry to Wadgassen. A renovation took place in 1930/1931. The community of Bous inherited the former forester's house from Wilhelm Arweiler in 1964 and planned the establishment of the community's retirement home there. After this project was not realized, the municipality of Bous sold the forester's house to Mannesmann AG, which ran the casino for the tube production of the company that had been active in Bous since 1886/1887. After the tube rolling mill in Bous was shut down in December 1998 and the finishing line had ceased operations in March 1999, the forester's house passed into the ownership of the software company Sigmatech in 1999.

Historic Bommersbacher mill in Bous

The Bommersbacher Mühle in Bous was a mill owned by the Wadgassen Abbey.

Michael-Stein-Platz

On the historic site of the former Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen, a new site was opened in 2013, bearing the name of Abbot Michael Stein (* 1697, † 1778).

literature

in alphabetical order of the authors:

  • Josef Burg (Ed.): Regesta of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen until 1571, Saarbrücken 1980.
  • Burg, Josef: The Wadgassen Abbey and the “Pfarr Oberkirch” at the time of the Thirty Years War, in: Volksbank Wadgassen Annual Report 1976, pp. 15–20.
  • Josef Burg: The Wadgassen Abbey in the Thirty Years' War, in: Our home 3, (1978), pages 145-150.
  • Josef Burg: "Der Hof" in Wadgassen, in: Our home 14, 1989.
  • Josef Burg: The Oberhof in Wadgassen - A forgotten individual settlement, in: 100 Years of Mathilden Pharmacy 1896–1996, Festschrift, Saarlouis 1996.
  • Josef Burg: Spurk - history of a single settlement, in: 100 years Mathilden pharmacy 1896–1996, Festschrift, Saarlouis 1996.
  • Josef Burg: From the history of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen, The foundation and its prehistory, in: Saarheimat 29 (1985), pp. 162–171.
  • Stefan Flesch, Joachim Conrad, Thomas Bergholz: Monks on the Saar - The medieval settlements in the border area between Saarland and Lorraine, Saarbrücken 1986.
  • Catholic parish Maria Visitation Wadgassen, civil parish Wadgassen, Bisttalforum Wadgassen (ed.): Premonstratensian Abbey Wadgassen 1135-1792, contributions to abbey and local history, ed. on the occasion of the anniversary “800 years of foundation of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen”, Wadgasser Publications No. 4, Saarlouis 1985.
  • Walter Lauer: The glass industry in the Saar area, Braunschweig 1922.
  • Adolf Morschett: Mute witnesses of the past, About old boundary stones of the abbey, in: Einheitsgemeinde Wadgassen, The year of anniversaries, 750 years of Hostenbach, 650 years of Schaffhausen, 250 years of Friedrichweiler, Dillingen / Saar 1975.
  • Wolfgang Peters: Springiersbach and the beginnings of the Prämonstratenserstift Wadgassen, in: Yearbook for West German State History 7 (1981).
  • Manfred and Stefan Reinert: The double-towered abbey church of Wadgassen - a fiction, in: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch, 41 / Jg. 2001, pp. 223-233.
  • Saarforschungsgemeinschaft (ed.): The art monuments of the Ottweiler and Saarlouis districts, edited by Walter Zimmermann, 2nd, unchanged edition of the first edition from 1934, Saarbrücken 1976, pp. 278-293.
  • Georg Skalecki : Master builder and builder in the baroque new building of the Premonstratensian Abbey of Wadgassen, in: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 33, 1993, pp. 159–175.
  • Wilhelm Franz-Josef Trenz: The Premonstratensian Abbey Wadgassen in the time of the French Revolution, series: Analecta Praemonstratensis.
  • Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the Wadgassen 1901 edition with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978.
  • Dominik Wolfgang Veix: The development of the Premonstratensian order particularly illustrated using the example of the Arnstein and Wadgassen abbeys, Vienna, university diploma thesis 1993.

Web links

  • Wadegotia (private site) (Internet offer with numerous online documents, pictures, essays, reconstructions on the history of the Wadgassen Abbey)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate in the Saarbrücken State Archives, Section 22, No. 6251.
  2. ↑ Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, pp. 17-18.
  3. ↑ Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar region, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, pp. 21-23.
  4. ^ Translation from Latin according to Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, Simultaneously a cultural and war history of the Saar region, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, pp. 21-23.
  5. ↑ Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, p. 24.
  6. ↑ a b Information on Wadgasser Abbey, museum, academia wadegotia, accessed on September 1, 2011.
  7. ↑ a b The Wadgassen Abbey in the Premonstratensian travel guide
  8. ^ Norbert Wilhelm Backmund: Monasticon Praemonstratense, id est historia circariorum atque canoniarum candidi et canonici ordinis Praemonstratensis, Attenkofersche Buchdruckerei Straubing, Volume I: 1949/51, Volume II: 1952/55, Volume III 1955/60 - Volume I was published in 1983 in De -Gruyter-Verlag Berlin in the second edition; Pp. 119-122, III, 1956 541 f.
  9. ↑ Wolfgang Peters: Springiersbach and the beginnings of the Premonstratensian Foundation Wadgassen, Yearbook for West German State History, 7, 1981, pp. 1–15.
  10. ↑ Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar area, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, pp. 185–190.
  11. ↑ Archive link ( memento of February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 12, 2016.
  12. ↑ Archive link ( memento of February 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 12, 2016.
  13. ^ History of the Wadgassen Abbey, ( Memento from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Wadgassen community, accessed on September 1, 2011.
  14. ↑ Michael Tritz: History of the Wadgassen Abbey, at the same time a cultural and war history of the Saar region, unchanged reprint of the 1901 edition of Wadgassen with an introduction by Hans-Walter Herrmann and a register, Saarbrücken 1978, synchronistic table.
  15. ↑ The list of abbots will be corrected by Reinhard Hager from Völklingen. From the Premonstratensian monastery in Prague he has the Latin annals of the Wadgassen monastery from 1135 to 1742, which the last abbot Jean Baptiste Bordier, who incidentally died in 1799 in the Strahov monastery in Prague, at his disposal. So far I have only translated to Abbot Richardus. The manuscripts of the Strahov Monastery were specially made for the respective abbot by various monks of the Wadgassen Abbey. The abbots' names are painted and not a single word is crossed out or poorly written. This source is an ornamental manuscript that is nowhere else to be found.
  16. ↑ Georg Skalecki: Builders and builders working on the new baroque building of the Premonstratensian Abbey in Wadgassen . In: Kurtrierisches Jahrbuch 33, 1993, pp. 159–175 (excerpts here ( Memento from July 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ))
  17. ↑ Georg Skalecki: Eckhardt, Johann Heinrich, in: Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon, Vol. 32, Leipzig 2002, p. 100.
  18. ↑ List of architectural monuments in the Saarlouis district ( Memento from December 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 160 kB), accessed on September 1, 2011
  19. ^ Rolf Ruppenthal: Historic monastery building is in disrepair, Saarbrücker Zeitung, regional section: newspaper for the Saarlouis district, July 24, 2020, C 4.
  20. ↑ https://www.saarland.de/dokumente/thema_denkmal/TDL-LKSLS_01-10-2012.pdf , accessed on January 31, 2020.
  21. ↑ Johannes A. Bodwig: Does the secret passage to the abbey exist ?, Saarbrücker Zeitung, regional section, newspaper for the district of Saarlouis, p. C 4, March 13, 2019.
  22. ↑ http://new.heimat.de/home/cbruenig/fabrik/brd/bous/bous.htm , accessed on January 31, 2020.
  23. ↑ https://www.sigmatech.de/ , accessed on January 31, 2020.
  24. ↑ A picture of the sign with further information about the namesake Michael Stein can be found at http://www.wadegotia.info/abt-michael-stein-platz.html , accessed on June 10, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 16 ′ 15.2 "  N , 6 ° 47 ′ 31.1"  E