Engelthal Monastery (Rheinhessen)

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Renovated baroque building in the Engelthaler monastery area

The monastery Engelthal is a former Cistercian abbey in the village of Ober-Ingelheim the city of Ingelheim am Rhein . The area extends from the Ohrbrücker Tor towards the Stiegelgässer Tor .

history

City map of Ober-Ingelheim around 1800

The foundation of the monastery Engelthal was an indirect result of power struggles between imperial and papal domination that had taken place in the first half of the 13th century. Since then, the importance of Pfalz Ingelheim and thus Nieder-Ingelheim has steadily declined. However, the importance of Ober-Ingelheim increased now. The noble families who formerly belonged to the administration of the Imperial Palatinate resided there. Among them were the later Counts of Ingelheim . The place was equipped with a city fortification in the 13th century, which can be seen on the city map of Ober-Ingelheim from 1800.

Engelthal Monastery was first mentioned in a document in 1290. It was one of the nunneries that Archbishop of Mainz Peter von Aspelt bequeathed to him in his will of February 21, 1319. With this donation, the economic prerequisites for the foundation of the monastery were created. The spiritual oversight of the convent was the Cistercian - Abbey Eberbach in kurmainzischen transferred Rheingau. In the following decades it developed relatively quickly into an important manor in the Ingelheimer Grund, which was mainly due to numerous donations. These came from many other ministerial families in the area. However, the archival sources are poor.

The end of Engelthal Monastery came with the Reformation , which was introduced in Ingelheimer Grund from 1556 by the Heidelberg electors; initially cautiously Lutheran under Ottheinrich , but from 1565 radically reformed under Friedrich III. Monastery life came to a standstill in the course of the Thirty Years' War after the buildings were almost completely destroyed. The monastery buildings in the extreme south of the city, surrounded by a spacious monastery area, with the associated scattered property, 94 acres of arable land and 5.5 acres of meadows, were leased by the Count Palatine .

From 2011, the remaining buildings were restored and connected by additional buildings. The former monastery is now managed by an Ingelheim winery and used, among other things, as a conference venue.

Pictures of the renovation

  • Ohrbrücker Gate around 1903 with Engelthal nunnery

  • Inner courtyard, under construction

  • House front on Edelgasse, remainder of the former monastery wall

  • From the east, under construction

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingelheimer nobility historical association Ingelheim
  2. ↑ Beate Schwenk: KLOSTER ENGELTHAL winegrowers family is converting a listed property in Edelgasse ( memento from March 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) in: Allgemeine Zeitung (Ingelheim)
  3. ^ Sigrid Schmitt : Rural legal sources from the Electoral Mainz offices of Olm and Algesheim In: Geschichtliche Landeskunde Volume 44, Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996, ISBN 3515067868
  4. ↑ Engelthal Monastery at www.regionalgeschichte.net

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '32.6 "  N , 8 ° 3' 24.6"  E