Johannisberger Klause

Johannisberger Klause St. Georg

The Johannisberger Klause , also St.-Georgs-Klause or just Klaus , is a former hermitage of the Benedictine nuns in Oestrich-Winkel in the Rheingau , located directly at the foot of Johannisberg Castle in the vineyards. The "Johannisberger Klaus" vineyard was named after the former monastery.

history

Around 1130 a women's monastery or hermitage was probably founded within the Johannisberg Benedictine monastery . In the years that followed, the Frauenklause was moved to the foot of the Johannisberg, where there was already a courtyard. It was first mentioned in a document in 1285. As early as 1452, the hermitage, now also known as a monastery , was lifted, and from then on the farm was used economically by the monastery on the Johannisberg.

In 1603, ownership passed to the Counts of Schönborn , who used the building as an economic courtyard and built a mill on the Elsterbach flowing past , which was in operation until 1900. The facility is still owned by Schönborn today.

List of masters of the St. Georg hermitage

Compilation according to Struck 1977:

• Gertrude 1285
• Lutz 1293
• Greta 1317
• Clare 1345
• Katharina von Rudesheim 1356
• Else von Schippach 1383
• Kunigunde 1387
• Else von Wallertheim 1397
• Margrede von Schönburg 1426–1434
• Luckela von Schwalbach 1435-1452
• Katharina von Winterheim alias von Scharfenstein 1452

description

From the originally larger complex, an elongated, single-storey house from 1620 with an adjoining outbuilding to the west, the Gothic chapel of St. George from the 15th century and two other farm buildings from the 18th century have been preserved. The quarry stone buildings were originally plastered and have window and door frames made of sandstone. The complex is enclosed by a quarry stone wall.

Preservation of the hermitage

The buildings, which have been vacant for years, are marked by severe decay. In 2009, the monument protection authorities and the State of Hesse provided funds for the renovation of the roofs, and a fundamental renovation is being considered. In February 2017, around € 250,000 was made available from various sources so that the roof structure and ceilings over the main house can be secured.

swell

• Wolf-Heino Struck : History of the Benediktinerinnenklause St. Georg . In: Johannisberg im Rheingau , W. Kramer & Co., Frankfurt 1977, ISBN 3-7829-0191-6 .
• Dagmar Söder: Rheingau-Taunus District I.2 Altkreis Rheingau . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse , Theiss-Verlag , Darmstadt 2014, ISBN 978-3-8062-29875 .
• Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Hesse II: The administrative district of Darmstadt . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3422031173 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ p. 73.
2. ↑ Money for the hermitage: monastery receives new roof Frankfurter Rundschau from November 5, 2009
3. ^ The Johannisberger Klause in Oestrich Winkel. (PDF) State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 9, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Ailing monument is looking for solvent lovers . In: FAZ . February 15, 2015, p. 39 .
5. ^ The Johannisberger Klause in Oestrich-Winkel receives help from the German Foundation for Monument Protection. German Foundation for Monument Protection, February 10, 2017, accessed on August 9, 2017 . 

Web links

Commons : Johannisberger Klause  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• From the architectural monument to the Frankfurter Allgemeine nursing case from August 20, 2008
• Johannisberg (Benedictine convent St. Georg), Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
• Weindorf-johannisberg.de
• Entry on Johannisberger Klause in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 44.8 "  N , 7 ° 59 ′ 2.2"  E