Engelthal Monastery (Bonn)
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The monastery Engelthal was a Augustinian canon Women - Monastery on the northern edge of the historic city of Bonn . There are no remains of the buildings.
history
According to tradition that has not been documented, the monastery Zum Engelthal (In valle angelorum) was donated in the first decade of the 11th century by the pious citizen Geckela from her inherited property. In order to obtain the papal confirmation, it was personally to Pope John XIX. made a pilgrimage. In the place of the new monastery there was previously a Martian temple . The monastery received the patronage of the Mother of God , the Archangel Michael and all angels. The convent consisted of noble women.
Documents about the monastery exist from 1324. They already assume its existence. In 1417 the Engelthaler Augustinians joined the Windesheim Reform Congregation . In 1460, some of them followed the call of Archbishop Johann II of Trier to repopulate the Agnetenkloster in Trier . Badly affected by the war events of the 16th and 17th centuries, the monastery consolidated itself in the 18th century. With the end of the Holy Roman Empire and the Elector Archdiocese of Cologne , Engelthal Monastery was also secularized by the French government in 1802 .
In the 19th and 20th centuries, the monastery church and convent building completely disappeared. The Engeltalstraße still reminds of them today .
literature
- Helfrich Bernhard Hundeshagen : The city and university of Bonn on the Rhine . Bonn 1832, pp. 61-62
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Hundeshagen p. 61
Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 21.8 " N , 7 ° 6 ′ 13.6" E