Ebernach Monastery
The monastery Ebernach located in Sehl , a to Cochem on the Mosel related site. The monastery was founded in 1130 as the provost's office of the Benedictine monastery Laach (today: Maria Laach) and has been part of the institutions of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross, founded in 1862 by the lay brother Peter Wirth (Brother Jakobus) since 1887 .
history
The beginnings of the monastery go back to a gift from knight Johann von Evernach and his wife Mechthild to the Benedictine Abbey of Laach in 1130, in which the place is called Evernacum in Latin . The provost was the next lying winery 1673rd The wayside chapel was built three years later. In 1802 the provost's office was dissolved by Napoleon's main Imperial Deputation . The properties came to the wealthy Cochem doctor Dr. Karl Boost (1802-1877). His daughter, wife of the Sehler teacher Johann Franz Gering, finally inherited the entire property. She died in 1881. She had bequeathed the former Probsteig building in Ebernach to the parish of St. Martin in Cochem on condition that a hospital be set up there. However, since the parish was unable to do so, the Rhenish Provincial Administration ( Rhine Province ) bought the property and asked the Congregation of the Waldbreitbach Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross to take over the management of a sanatorium in Ebernach for male mentally disabled people. On October 12, 1887, the care of people with illnesses, infirmities and disabilities began. The extension buildings were built from 1888. The German mother house of the Franciscan Brothers was located in Ebernach Monastery from 1937 to 1947. The existing buildings were modernized for this purpose and some buildings were added. During this time, 199 mentally handicapped people were deported by government agencies . In 2005 the Franciscan Brothers erected a memorial between the church and the steeple to commemorate them. Since the Second World War, Ebernach Monastery has been looking after learning and mentally handicapped people under the auspices of the Franciscan Brothers of the Holy Cross. The monastery was always adapted to current needs and, if necessary, structurally expanded. Today around 300 disabled people live in the various departments and living groups of the monastery.
literature
- Alfons Friderichs (ed.): Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, Dr. med Karl Boost p. 55.
- Walter Gattow : Ebernach Monastery, 100 years in the service of the disabled, yearbook of the Cochem-Zell district 1988, pp. 109–111.
- Ernst Wackenroder : Ebernach, Former Benedictine Propstei, The Art Monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate, Volume III, Part 1, pp. 247-254.
- Reinhold Schommers : Ebernach Monastery, first power station 80 years ago in the Cochem district, yearbook Cochem-Zell district 1988, p. 112.
- Theresia Zimmer: Seal of the monasteries in the district, Ebernach (Probstei of the Maria Laach Abbey), Yearbook District Cochem-Zell 1993, p. 41
- Gerd Bayer: The tokens and vouchers of the Ebernach monastery, yearbook district Cochem-Zell 1993, pp. 125–126.
- Martin Persch: The administration of the Diocese of Trier 1944/45 in the Ebernach monastery, yearbook Kreis-Cochem-Zell 1994, pp. 84–86.
- Alfons Friderichs: Monastery property of the Maria Laach Abbey in the district (Ebernach), yearbook district Cochem-Zell 1996, p. 219 ff.
- Werner Schuhmacher: The great forest "Kirst and Thirn" on the heights of the Cochemer Krampens (on the mountain near Ebernach), yearbook district Cochem-Zell 1998, p. 96-101.
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Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 19.9 ″ N , 7 ° 11 ′ 14.8 ″ E