Dierstein Monastery

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Ruins of the monastery after the Thirty Years War, drawing from the 17th century

The Dierstein Monastery was a Benedictine monastery that stood on the site of today 's Oranienstein Castle near Diez an der Lahn .

The monastery was first mentioned in 1153. The founders were probably the Counts of Diez . The consecration of a second church to John the Baptist is guaranteed for 1221 . In its heyday the monastery was equipped with extensive possessions. The statutes of the Bursfeld congregation were introduced in 1466 by the abbess Elisabeth Beyer von Boppard, who originally came from the Marienberg monastery (near Boppard) . In 1564 the monastery was closed. It is recorded for 1634 that it had become a ruin.

During the construction of the main wing of Oranienstein Castle from 1672 to 1681, individual sections of the chapel and stones from the monastery ruins were used. During the reconstruction of the castle from 1704 to 1709, the last visible components that still came from the monastery disappeared.

literature

  • Jacob Marx: History of the Archbishopric Trier. Linz 1862, p. 171 ff. (Google Books)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments - Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-422-00382-7 , p. 211.
  2. ↑ Otto Volk: Boppard in the Middle Ages . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. First volume. From the early days to the end of the electoral rule . Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, ISBN 3-930051-04-4 , p. 338-348 .


Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 2 ″  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 40 ″  E