Kumbd Monastery

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The Kumbd monastery was a Cistercian monastery founded by Eberhard von Commeda (1165–1191) in 1183 in what is now the monastery part of the Hunsrück community of Klosterkumbd near Simmern in the Rhine-Hunsrück district .

history

Eberhard von Kumbd (also known as "de Commeda" or "von Stahleck") was the youngest son of a ministerial in the service of Count Palatine Konrad . In his youth he lived on the castles of Stahleck and Heidelberg . As early as 1180 he moved into a hermitage . This place, donated by the nobleman Heinrich von Dicka , was in the area of ​​the municipality of Klosterkumbd. During his hermit life there, he tried to be accepted as a monk in the Schönau monastery in the Odenwald. When he did not succeed in doing this in the third attempt either, after a serious illness he decided to found his own monastery.

This happened in 1183 after Heinrich von Dicka ( Henricus de Dicke ) had given him the necessary land. In 1196 the foundation of the monastery was confirmed by Archbishop Konrad von Mainz . In 1204 the same Heinrich, whose daughter Elisabeth had meanwhile joined the monastery, gave it further goods (confirmed in 1255 by Alexander von Dicka and Heinrich von Stahleck , also one of Dicka). The Kumbd monastery (Chumbd, Commeda, Comede) was initially filled with nuns from the Cistercian convent Marienhausen near Aulhausen in the Rheingau and with their own family members; As was customary at the time, it subsequently became a home for unmarried women from the regional upper class, including the Count Palatine von Simmern, who bequeathed goods and income to the monastery for this purpose. So was z. B. Katharina von Pfalz-Simmern abbess of Kumbd for many years .

Eberhard von Kumbd looked after the monastery in the rank of subdeacon , traveled a lot, fell seriously ill again in 1189 and died in 1191. He was buried in the Kumbder Marienkirche. After the monastery was dissolved in the 16th century, his body was transferred to the Himmerod monastery in the Eifel as a relic ; today he is missing.

In 1566 the monastery was abolished by Count Palatine Georg von Pfalz-Simmern (1518–1569). Before that, the Reformation was introduced in the Duchy of Simmern. The remaining nuns lived in the monastery until the death of the last abbess in 1574. Then Georg's brother and successor Richard (1521–1598) moved into the monastery, d. H. the monastery was dissolved, the property, income and rights that belonged to the monastery were transferred to the Duchy of Simmern. Later officials (so-called conductors) were used to administer the property and the income.

Building history

Today there are hardly any structural remains of the monastery to be seen. Numerous buildings can be documented. The monastery church, the refectory, a hospital, a cemetery, a brewery, a conductors' house and various farm buildings are mentioned. After the abolition of the monastery, some of the buildings were still used. In 1630 the abbey buildings were mentioned again and some of them were repaired. In 1794 only farm buildings are mentioned.

literature

  • Josef Heinzelmann: Heinrich von Stahleck, Bishop of Strasbourg 1245–1260. His nephews and his origins. In: Yearbook for West German State History. 35, 2009, pp. 25-72. ISSN  0170-2025 .
  • Willi Wagner: The Cistercian convent Kumbd (Hunsrück). Düsseldorf 1973 (series of publications by the Hunsrück History Association 6).
  • Stefan Weber : The life of Eberhard von Kumbd. Heidelberg's beginnings and female piety on the Middle Rhine. New edition, translation, commentary (Heidelberg publications on regional history and regional studies, Volume 11). Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-8253-1628-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Acta Academiae Theodoro-Palatinae . tape  3 . Mannheim 1773, p. 95 f . ( Full text ).
  2. ^ K. Büttinghausen: From Chumbd Monastery . In: Contributions to the history of the Palatinate . tape 2 . Mannheim 1782, p. 325 ( full text in Google Book Search).

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Coordinates: 50 ° 1 ′ 43.7 ″  N , 7 ° 31 ′ 32.4 ″  E