Himmelthal Monastery

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St. Sebastian Monastery Church
Anna Eisenberger, Abbess of Himmelthal Monastery 1552–1568 (left)

The monastery Himmelthal is a former Cistercian - Abbey in the market Elsenfeld , district back in Bavaria in the diocese of Wuerzburg .

history

The Himmelthal monastery in the map of Spessart by Paul Pfinzing from 1594 (north is on the right)

The monastery was founded in 1232 by Count Ludwig II von Rieneck and his wife Adelheid von Henneberg. In 1568, the Archdiocese of Mainz abolished the abandoned monastery and turned it into an archdiocese Kameralhof .

The last abbess was Anna Geipel von Schöllkrippen , who died in Erlenbach on May 25, 1600. Her parents were the riding Spessart forester and member of the forester's court in Hösbach Ludwig Geipel von Schöllkrippen and Anna von Wasen . The alliance coat of arms of the Geipel von Schöllkrippen and that of Wasen was walled in in the south wall of the passage to the farm buildings of the monastery. The inscription: “ When after the birth of Christ in 1583 Jar / Anna was born Geippelin von Schelkrippen Abbatissin / Verlei Ir Got a blessed regiment / Vnd nim Si last in your Hendt. "

The monastery courtyard was initially left to the Jesuits in 1595 and given in 1626. The existing baroque pilgrimage church was built on the foundations of the previous Gothic church in 1753 and consecrated to Saint Sebastian . The original equipment of the church with the organ built in 1757 by Johann Conrad Wehr from Marktheidenfeld is remarkable.

After the Jesuit order was abolished in 1773, the property fell back to the Archbishopric of Mainz and was assigned to the Aschaffenburg college . The facility has been owned by the Aschaffenburg Foundation's high school fund since 1814. The village of Eichelsbach , which belonged to the monastery until 1773, was also assigned to the ore monastery of Mainz.

Current usage

Educational use

The high school fund of the Aschaffenburg Foundation Office has been running the non-profit vocational training facility Himmelthal GmbH since 1974 . The focus is on working with young people who receive comprehensive care within the framework of a boarding school . The aim of the measures funded by the employment office is integration into working life.

In addition, the grammar school fund operates the Elsava School for Educational Aid in Himmelthal . The private institution supports children and adolescents with high educational needs in the Bavarian Lower Main region, but who evade compulsory schooling due to their behavioral problems . The facility consists of a school for educational assistance with an integrated special educational day care center.

At the request of the school administration responsible, the school for educational assistance supports local secondary schools by checking pupils for increased educational needs.

Church and cultural use

Pilgrimages

Every year, on January 20th, Sebastinus Day and on September 14th, the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross are celebrated as part of a service. The pilgrimages that used to take place no longer exist in this form.

Concerts

The "Himmelthaler Summer Concerts" have been held in the monastery church since 1984.

Viticulture and Gastronomy

The Weinbauverein Rück eV offers its self -made wines in the wine tasting room every second Sunday . Every year on the first weekend in August, the Rück winegrowers' association holds its wine festival in the courtyard of the Himmelthal monastery.

literature

  • Felix Mader : The art monuments of Bavaria . Lower Franconia XXIII. District Office Obernburg. Verlag R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1925 (Unchanged reprint. Ibid 1981, ISBN 3-486-50477-0 ).
  • Eva Marie Schlicht: The market town of Elsenfeld with the districts of Rück, Schippach and Eichelsbach , Verlagdruckerei Schmidt Neustadt ad Aisch, published by Markt Elsenfeld 1990

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Büttner: History of the village Waldaschaff and the parish Keilberg , Paul Pattloch Verlag, Aschaffenburg 1981, without ISBN, p. 52
  2. ↑ http://www.vdu.uni-koeln.de/vdu/DE-StAW/AschaffenburgJesuiten/fond
  3. ↑ pilgrimage church. Retrieved May 17, 2018 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 49 ′ 20 ″  N , 9 ° 13 ′ 10 ″  E