Einsiedel Monastery

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Reconstructed foundation walls based on the ASP excavations at the monastery.
Excavation area (as of 2013)

The Einsiedel (St. Elisabeth) monastery (also known as Elisabethenzell monastery ) was a Premonstratensian monastery on Birkenhainer Straße in the forest between Rieneck and Ruppertshütten in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg .

history

The service yard of the Elisabethenzell monastery was mentioned as early as the 11th century. In the 13th century, after two previous buildings, there was a church founded by the Counts of Rieneck (23.5 × 8.5 m), which was endowed with income. It was handed over to the Premonstratensian Abbey of Oberzell in 1292 by Ludwig and Heinrich von Rieneck and Ulrich von Hanau . In 1326 the foundation was renewed. Next to it was a 140 m 2 cemetery enclosed by a stone wall with around 150 to 200 burials. To the east and west of the monastery church stood two houses, one of them with warm air heating.

The mother monastery kept sending new brothers to Rieneck in the 14th century, but in the end the convent only held up with great difficulty. The financial situation was tense. In 1350 St. Elisabeth became an outer courtyard of the Abbey in Oberzell.

In 1410 the monastery donated this small abbey to two Dominicans for life. From this point on, there are no reports on monastic life. The monastery ended at the latest with the Reformation and the buildings fell into disrepair. Only the chapel remained from the earlier complex. The bells are said to have come to Schaippach and Ruppertshütten . On the Pfinzing map from 1594, the location of the monastery is still marked as Zum Ainsiegel .

In 1617 there was a witch trial in which 17 women were tortured for having performed a witch's dance on the site of the former monastery. Today only a few stone piles and field names as well as a wayside shrine that was built later are recognizable from the monastery. In 2011 the area was surveyed with ground penetrating radar ; In 2012, the excavations began under the scientific management of the Archaeological Spessart Project , during which the remains of a cistern and the old road Birkenhainer Landstraße were found.

Web links

Commons : Einsiedel Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ http://www.spessartprojekt.de/kulturwege/lohr_2/taf_3.php
  2. ↑ a b The Elisabethenzell Monastery - building history on the pages of the Archaeological Spessart Project
  3. ↑ http://www.spessartprojekt.de/kulturwege/lohr_2/taf_3.php
  4. ↑ Website of the Archaeological Spessart Project ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spessartprojekt.de
  5. ↑ Lohrer Echo, May 5, 2011 and other reports

Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '22.6 "  N , 9 ° 35' 8.2"  E