Mühlheim Monastery (Osthofen)

The Mühlheim (Osthofen) monastery was a nunnery in Osthofen- Mühlheim, Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate from the 12th to the 14th centuries .

history

The nunnery Mühlheim (historically also: Mühlen , Mullen or Mulne ), dedicated to St. Margaret of Antioch , was founded in the 12th century (before 1167) and was first occupied by Augustinian women, then by Cistercian women . After the resignation of the local feudal lords, the Worms Bishop Eberhard I handed the monastery over to the Mühlheim-based Commandery of the Knights Templar . The Cistercian convent became one of the rare Templar convents. With the end of the Knights Templar in 1312, the monastery went to the Order of St. Johnover, but the nuns refused to take on the habit of the Johanniter. There seem to be no remains.

literature

• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 54 C.
• Sebastian Brunner (Ed.): A book of Cistercians . Woerl, Vienna 1881 / Salzwasser, Paderborn 2013, p. 637.
• Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 580.
• Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 414.
• Berthold Schnabel : Mühlheim, St. Margareta. Women's monastery, later women's monastery of the Knights Templar, then of the Order of St. John (?). Mühlheim district, Osthofen town, Wonnegau community, Alzey-Worms district . In: Pfälzisches Klosterlexikon , ed. by Jürgen Keddigkeit. Volume 3, 2015, pages 104-109.

Web links

• Entry "Mühlheim" in Germania Monastica. Monastery directory of the German Benedictines and Cistercians
• Regional historical article on the monastery
• Mention of the monastery in the regional history article on the Templar castle Mühlheim / Osthofen
• Article in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
• Mention of the monastery in the Templar chronology in 1272
• Article "Mühlen (Commandery, Germany)" in the Templerlexikon of the University of Hamburg, with sources

Coordinates: 49 ° 42 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 8 ° 17 ′ 32.2 ″  E