Ehrenthal (Sankt Goarshausen)
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Ehrenthal
City of Sankt Goarshausen
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 19 ″ N , 7 ° 40 ′ 30 ″ E
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| Height : | 71 m |
| Incorporation : | 1933 |
| Incorporated into: | Wellme |
| Postal code : | 56346 |
| Area code : | 06771 |
Ehrenthal is a district of Sankt Goarshausen on the right bank of the Middle Rhine . It is part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site .
history
In 881 Ehrenthal was mentioned for the first time as "Erintera" as a wine and farm estate owned by the Prüm Monastery in the Eifel. The name is derived from the Latin word "andria", in German "Bach" and Thal, so the name means Bachthal.
In 1312 the place came into possession of Kurtrier and was assigned to the Oberamt Boppard. He remained there until the dissolution of the spiritual territories in 1802.
From the late Middle Ages, the estate served the abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Gronau as a summer residence. After the monastery was dissolved in 1542, the abbot and monks founded a new monastery in Ehrenthal.
Under the Archbishop of Trier Johann Hugo von Orsbeck , today's church and monastery were built from 1705 to 1708 according to plans by court architect Philipp Honorius von Ravensteyn . The coat of arms of the bishop can be found in the apex of the west portal. After the monastery was profaned in 1803, the monastery church became the Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian .
In 1802 Ehrenthal came under the rule of Nassau-Weilburg at the disposal of the last Archbishop of Trier , and in 1806 it became part of the newly formed Duchy of Nassau .
After the German-German war in 1866 Ehrenthal came to Prussia .
From 1919 to 1930 the place was part of the French occupation zone , just like after Ehrenthal was captured by the Americans on March 26, 1945, shortly before the end of the Second World War .
In 1933 the Ehrenthal parish was incorporated into Wellmich .
During the Second World War, the church furnishings were destroyed in a fire in 1945 . When the church was restored between 1946 and 1958, the formerly baroque ceiling was replaced by a cove ceiling . In 1949 the relief of the Mayen sculptor Anton Wogner with the martyrdom of St. Sebastian was created. The former monastery building immediately adjacent now houses the monastery tavern .
In 1969 the community of Wellmich and thus Ehrenthal became a district of the Loreley town of St. Goarshausen .
economy
In 1745 ore veins were discovered between Ehrenthal and Prath, which led to the founding of a smelter, which later mined lead and zinc ores on both sides of the Rhine under the name Grube Gute Hope until 1961. In October 1789 Alexander von Humboldt visited the mine accompanied by the Dutch physician Steven Jan van Geuns .
Culture and sights
The Catholic Church of St. Sebastian is particularly worth seeing, but Ehrenthal is also distinguished by its location on the Rheinsteig.
Ehrenthaler Hahn
The Ehrentaler Hahn is an old river terrace of the Rhine above Ehrenthal in the Kesterter district. In 1950, a walnut tree plantation was established here on fertile loess soil , which was a typical example of the cultural landscape of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. Since the plantation was abandoned, it threatened to become more and more bushy . A company has been committed to the preservation of the cultural landscape and the protection of rare plant and animal species since 2010, for example by removing bushes from the valuable limestone, semi-dry meadows and replanting them with rare cultivated fruit varieties such as Middle Rhine cherries or quince. The lawns are kept open by grazing with cattle . Since then, lime-loving and heat-loving plants such as the rare blue vineyard grape hyacinth or a large number of different orchids have settled again . A valuable biotope has formed here for grasshoppers and the large tower snail .
tourism
- The Rheinsteig leads above the village over the meadows of the Ehrenthaler Hahn.
- In 2001 the Wellmich-Prath-Ehrenthal Mining and Landscape Trail , a 5 km long information trail on the history of mining, was set up.
traffic
The Ehrenthal district is located directly on the federal highway 42 , which runs through the Rhine Valley on the right bank of the Rhine.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): The Rhine Valley from Bingen and Rüdesheim to Koblenz. A European cultural landscape. Volume 2, Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 2001, ISBN 3-8053-2753-6 .
- W. Krammes / B. Jakobs / H. Gräff (ed.): The churches in the Middle Rhine Valley. Guide to the buildings of the UNESCO World Heritage Middle Rhine, Michael Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-86568-237-6 .
- Martin Unfricht / Joerg Hilgers: NaturTouren Rheinsteig, Ideemedia, Neuwied 2007, ISBN 978-3934342477 .
- "Wellmich and Ehrenthal" by Hans Schwarz and Rosemarie Lauer St. Goarshausen 1993
Web links
- Ehrenthaler Hahn on Green Refnet
- Mining and Landscape Trail Wellmich-Prath-Ehrental Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz eV
- Strassenkatalog.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernd Kölbel / Lucie Terken (eds.): Steven Jan van Geuns. Diary of a trip with Alexander von Humboldt through Hesse, the Palatinate, along the Rhine and through Westphalia in autumn 1789, Berlin 2007, p. 177.