Holy Spirit Monastery (Alzey)
| Holy Spirit Monastery | |
|---|---|
| Patronage | Holy Spirit |
| founding year | before 1262 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
after 1296 / before 1564 |
The Holy Spirit Monastery was one of the three Cistercian monasteries in Alzey in Rheinhessen .
history
The time of the foundation of the monastery and its founder are unknown. The first written reference 1262. After documents of the late 13th century the monastery to the time of Pfalzgraf Ludwig I have been founded.
Due to its location, the monastery, like its daughter and successor monastery, probably belonged to the filiation of Eberbach Monastery , but it is not mentioned in the visit logs that were very incomplete before 1498 .
Many members of the convent came from the regional noble families who made donations to the monastery.
In 1262 the monastery received the patronage of the St. John's Chapel from knight Peter von Alzey. The new Cistercian convent of St. John was developed around this chapel around 1290 . Both monasteries existed in parallel for a time. The monastery of the Holy Spirit was probably merged into the new monastery in the Middle Ages.
No remains of the monastery buildings on Dautenheimer Landstrasse have survived.
Web links
- Schmid, Reinhard: Alzey - Holy Spirit Monastery. In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate, URL: https://www.klosterlexikon-rlp.de/rheinhessen/alzey-heilig-geist-st-johann.html (accessed April 23, 2019)
- https://www.regionalgeschichte.net/rheinhessen/alzey/kulturdenkmaeler/heilig-geist-st-johann.html (accessed April 23, 2019)