Benedictine convent Koblenz

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City view of Koblenz 1789, in the foreground the Benedictine monastery, to the left the Carthusian monastery , in the background the city silhouette of Koblenz with the Ehrenbreitstein fortress (right)

The Benedictine Monastery Koblenz was an abbey of Benedictine on the Rhine island Oberwerth in Koblenz . It existed from the 12th century until the secularization of 1802 by the French.

history

On the Rhine island of Oberwerth, south of the city of Koblenz, there was already a women's convent in the 12th century . This got into economic hardship and agreed to accept the Rule of Benedict . The Archbishop of Trier Albero von Montreuil then assigned the abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Matthias near Trier to the monastery as spiritual and secular head. In addition, it formed a double monastery with the neighboring Benedictine monastery of St. Beatusberg . This community was separated again in 1215 by the Archbishop of Trier Theoderich II von Wied because of disputes. This meant that all documents had to be destroyed to avoid further disputes.

After the conversion into a Benedictine monastery , new monastery buildings were built with the help of a sponsor from the St. Florin monastery , who donated land to the nuns on the Oberwerth. With further donations from aristocratic families in the area, the monastery experienced a rapid boom in the period that followed. The main threat to the monastery was the frequent flooding on the island, which repeatedly damaged the monastery church and buildings. Extensive construction work was therefore necessary in the 15th and 17th centuries. From 1776 to 1779 the entire monastery complex was rebuilt. The new monastery church was consecrated on April 22, 1779.

With the conquest of Koblenz by French revolutionary troops in the First Coalition War in 1794 , the Benedictine nuns had to leave the monastery on the Oberwerth. It was severely damaged in combat operations. The Benedictine monastery was secularized by the French in 1802 and then auctioned with the entire Rhine Island on August 3, 1807. In the 19th century the monastery church was converted into a manor house and the monastery building in Prussia was converted into a seminar for teachers . The last structural remains of the former Benedictine monastery were removed in the 1930s.

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literature

  • Energieversorgung Mittelrhein GmbH (ed.): History of the city of Koblenz . Overall editing: Ingrid Bátori in conjunction with Dieter Kerber and Hans Josef Schmidt
    • Volume 1: From the beginning to the end of the electoral era . Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-0876-X .
    • Volume 2: From the French city to the present . Theiss, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8062-1036-5 .
  • Fritz Michel : The art monuments of the Rhine province. The church monuments in the city of Koblenz. (= The Art Monuments of the Rhine Province. Twentieth volume, 1st section). ed. by Paul Clemen. Düsseldorf 1937.
  • Wolfgang Schütz: Koblenz heads. People from the city's history - namesake for streets and squares. 2. revised u. exp. Edition. Publishing house for advertising papers , Mülheim-Kärlich 2005, OCLC 712343799 , p. 75.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Bollinger: 100 families of the eunuches of Worms and the lords of Dalberg . Bollinger, Worms-Herrnsheim 1989, p. 51.
  2. ↑ Questionable: Johannes Bollinger: 100 families of the eunuches of Worms and the lords of Dalberg . Bollinger, Worms-Herrnsheim 1989, p. 51.

Coordinates: 50 ° 20 ′ 25 ″  N , 7 ° 35 ′ 31 ″  E