Marienhausen Monastery

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Marienhausen Monastery
Marienhausen Monastery
Marienhausen Monastery
location GermanyGermany Germany
Hessen
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '45.7 "  N , 7 ° 53' 44"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '45.7 "  N , 7 ° 53' 44"  E
Patronage Maria
founding year before 1189
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1810

Marienhausen was a Cistercian monastery near Aulhausen , a district of Rüdesheim am Rhein in the Rheingau-Taunus district in Hesse .

Geographical location

Marienhausen borders the old village center of Aulhausen to the northeast, but lies on the other side of the Eichbach , which flows westward to the Rhine near Assmannshausen . A few hundred meters upstream is the neighboring St. Vincenzstift at the foot of the Ebental valley .

history

The existence as a monastery of the Cistercian women can be traced back to the year 1189, when it was subordinated to the Eberbach monastery . At that time it was called cella sororum Clarevallensis ordinis in loco, qui Hvsen dicitur . The founder of the monastery was possibly the Mainz Vitztum Konrad (attested 1171–1173, died before 1181). His son Gisilbert von Rüdesheim was monastery vogt until his rights were replaced at the time of Archbishop Konrad I of Mainz in 1189; however, the monastery is probably much older. The Kumbd monastery near Simmern was founded with nuns from Marienhausen as early as 1180 .

In 1219 the archbishop consecrated the monastery church. The monastery was gradually equipped with cleared land and forest pieces in the chamber forest and also with goods in the area, also on the other side of the Rhine, namely in Oberheimbach , Niederheimbach , Grolsheim and Diebach . Because of the sheep farming in the monastery, there were disputes between the nuns and the Aulhausen village population in the 14th century. In order to protect the barren meadows, Archbishop Gerlach von Nassau finally limited sheep farming to 500 animals in 1352. The monastery received several papal letters of protection in the 13th century.

Marienhausen was the oldest of three Cistercian monasteries in the Rheingau, which also included Tiefenthal Monastery and Gottesthal Monastery . The name form Marienhausen prevailed since the second half of the 16th century.

In 1745 the convent consisted of 22 choir sisters and six lay sisters. The monastery buildings were rebuilt in 1752-1753. The nuns apparently knew how to secure the continued existence of the monastery for centuries, because they managed well. When the Rheingau became part of the Duchy of Nassau in 1803 , the orderly economic conditions were reason enough for the ducal inspectors to exclude Marienhausen from secularization that year , unlike Eberbach Monastery, for example. It was not until February 1811 that Duke Friedrich August abolished the monastery in a second wave of secularization. Parts of the interior were taken to various monasteries and churches as well as to the Limburg Diocesan Museum . In return for appropriate compensation, eight nuns and three lay sisters were released from monastic life in addition to the abbess and prioress.

The monastery complex was sold to Baron Hans Carl von Zwierlein in Geisenheim . The diocese of Limburg acquired the building in 1888. In 1889, the diocesan rescue facility “To Saint Joseph” of the poor servants of Jesus Christ under Prelate Matthäus Müller von Marienstatt moved here in the Westerwald. The monastery complex now served as a boys' education facility for up to 200 children and young people.

The monastery was badly damaged by fire in 1915 and rebuilt in 1925. In 1924 the Salesians of Don Bosco set up a monastic community here and took over the children's and youth home. By 1991 the number of places was gradually reduced to less than 40 places.

present

In 1991 the St. Vincenzstift Aulhausen Foundation and St. Joseph Rescue Institution took over from the Salesians. The new sponsor set up a special education center and the Marienhausen youth welfare service here . As a youth welfare association, it offers differentiated care in residential and day groups at several locations in the Rheingau for up to 65 children and young people with development-related deficits in personal, social and school performance.

In 2010 the renovation of the monastery church began. The Goldstein studio of Lebenshilfe Frankfurt am Main redesigned the church in modern forms with artists with disabilities. Work was completed by the Church's 825th anniversary in June 2014. On this occasion a medieval desk support in the form of a returned Atzmanns coming from the Limburg Museum back to its original location in St. Mary's Church.

people

Theodor Seelbach was director in Marienhausen (1927 to 1931 and 1952 to 1954).

Jürgen Bartsch , known as a serial killer , had been brought up in a home in Marienhausen for several years from 1958, when he was twelve.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Rolf Seufert : The spiritual currents have never dried up . In: The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Freundeskreis Kloster Eberbach eV (Hrsg.): Eberbach im Rheingau . Cistercian - Culture - Wine. The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Wiesbaden / Eltville 1986, p. 9-40 .
  2. ↑ a b c "Marienhausen Monastery - unknown and unspectacular?" Rheingau-Echo from February 28, 2013 ( Memento from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Lecture by the local researcher Reinhold Nägler in the lecture series of the Society for the Promotion of Rheingau Local Research
  3. ↑ Aulhausen: The Trinity makes the beginning in: FAZ, May 17, 2013
  4. ↑ Temporarily military hospital and barracks in FAZ of June 13, 2014, page 41
  5. ↑ "A monastery comes into the limelight". Rheingau-Echo from June 20, 2014 ( Memento from March 27, 2018 in the Internet Archive )

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