Eberhard von Kumbd

Eberhard von Kumbd (also "de Commeda", "von Stahleck") (* 1165 , † November 30, 1191 in the Cistercian convent of Kumbd in the Hunsrück ) was a blessed subdeacon .

He was born as the son of Ministerial Wolfram in Bacharach below Stahleck Castle . Eberhard spent his youth with his family at the court of Count Palatine Konrad at the castles of Stahleck and Heidelberg . After unsuccessful attempts to be accepted as a monk in the Schönau (Odenwald) monastery , he founded the Kumbd monastery on the land of noble Heinrich von Dyck . He settled this with nuns from the Aulhausen convent and with his own family members. In the following time he was often on the move between Stahleck and Heidelberg. He died of an illness as early as 1191.

He was soon venerated regionally as a saint. So around 1220, probably in the Eberbach monastery , his biography was written, which emphasizes his saintly life and describes his illness as a spiritual rapture. But this is also an important source for the early history of the castle and the city of Heidelberg, as well as for the history of the Cistercian women on the Middle Rhine .

literature

• Stefan Weber : The life of Eberhard von Kumbd. Heidelberg's beginnings and female piety on the Middle Rhine. New edition, translation, commentary (Heidelberg publications on regional history and regional studies, vol. 11) Heidelberg 2004, 309 pp., Universitätsverlag Winter, ISBN 3-8253-1628-9 .