Dalheim Monastery (Mainz)
The Dalheim Monastery - (S. Maria in Valle) in early documents also called Mariendalen , Dalen or Marienkron Mainz - was a monastery in Mainz .
history
Dalheim Monastery was first mentioned in a document in 1145. It was probably founded by Archbishop Arnold I of Cologne as a double monastery for monks and nuns .
The Archbishop of Mainz, Siegfried II von Eppstein, reformed it into a Poor Clare monastery . In 1251 the nuns opted for the Benedictine rule and the Cistercian order . Archbishop Werner von Mainz entrusted the nunmehrige Cistercian - Abbey in 1265 the abbot of the Cistercian Abbey Eberbach in the Rheingau for visitation and certain as its tasks, the Beichtjurisdiktion , the imposition of fines , the liberation of excommunication , the right to reforms and corrections. On January 7, 1266, Friedrich, the praeceptor of the Lazarus Order in Germany and Hertwig, the Komtur zu Megersheim (between Bauschheim and Königstädten , districts of the city of Rüsselsheim ) sold all of the order's possessions in and near Bretzenheim to the Dalheim monastery ( Dalen nunnery at Mainz ).
In 1283 the abbess at the time sold a monastery garden to Heinrich von Weidas. This is interpreted as an indication of a connection between the monastery and the women's cisterns of Weidas and Altmünster . In 1296, the abbess received local rule over Bretzenheim and Zahlbach and was allowed to collect “cheese money”, carnival chicken and a kind of inheritance tax. Thus the monastery had achieved an important position among the clerical and secular landowners in the region.
In the 14th century, the Archbishop of Mainz gave the monastery 30 Marks from Cologne denarii, which the Abbot of Eberbach had owed him.
The monastery was damaged by floods in 1395 and 1447, and by fire in 1769. In 1793, the Dahlheim nuns' abbey was largely destroyed by the French. The monastery property was transferred to the University of Mainz. In 1802 the monastery was finally abolished in the course of secularization . The buildings that no longer exist today stood between Zahlbach and the Dalheimer- or Aureusmühle in the Holy Valley, the lower Zahlbacher Weg, at the foot of the slope, opposite the last pillars of the Roman aqueduct (Roman stones).
literature
- Arno Hesse: The Eberbach and Haina monasteries and the relationship to the Cistercian women who are subordinate to them. Grin Verlag, 2008, ISBN 3638932826 (pp. 65f.)
Web links
- The Dalen Monastery on klosterlexikon-rlp.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Eduard Scriba: The regests of the documents printed up to now on the state and local history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse. Third section: containing the registers of the province of Rheinhessen. Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt, 1851. Online at Google Books p. 113.
- ^ The former Dalheim Monastery in Mainz, regionalgeschichte.net
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 23.4 " N , 8 ° 15 ′ 17.1" E