Ramsen Monastery

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Ramsen nunnery
Former monastery courtyard
Former monastery courtyard
location GermanyGermany Germany
Rhineland-Palatinate
Lies in the diocese Speyer, formerly the diocese of Worms
Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '54.6 "  N , 8 ° 0' 51.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '54.6 "  N , 8 ° 0' 51.3"  E
Patronage Our Lady, St. George and St. Nicholas
founding year 1146 by Benedictine nuns
Cistercian since 1267
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1485

The Ramsen nunnery (Palatinate), founded in 1146 as Ramosa ad Ramesum , dissolved in 1418, was initially a Benedictine community, a priory of the St. Georgen monastery in the Black Forest , and from 1267 belonged to the Cistercian order. It was in what is now the municipality of Ramsen in the Donnersbergkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate .

history

The Ramsen nunnery was a donation from the Speyer ministerial Berthold von Winzingen (1146) to the St. Georgen monastery in the Black Forest, but it turned out to be unprofitable for the monastic community due to the spatial distance and the facilities, so that it was passed on to Bishop Konrad II in 1174. von Worms (1171–1192) was handed over. The monastery belonged to the Cistercian order from 1267 and was temporarily subordinate to the abbot of the Schönau monastery. In the late Middle Ages, its economic situation deteriorated, despite extensive land ownership that it was dissolved in 1418.

In 1477 a male monastery was founded in Ramsen, which only existed until 1485. The monastic lands subsequently continued to form an economic and administrative unit of the diocese of Worms .

According to the Worms Chronicle of Friedrich Zorn (1538–1610), written in 1570, Bishop Reinhard von Rüppurr († 1533) wanted to use the abandoned Ramsen Monastery as a retirement home, but this was thwarted by the plundering in the Palatinate Peasants' War (1525).

Monastery property

The document printed by Franz Xaver Remling in his documentary history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria (Volume 1, Appendix 18, pages 333 and 334) has been preserved from the time of the foundation , which vividly describes the original furnishings of the monastery by the founding family . There it says u. a .:

" ... that Berthold von Winzingen and his wife Hatwid and Burchard, the brother of Berthold and Beatrix, the mother of Berthold and Burchard, as well as their relatives, their sons and daughters, (including) Berthold and Konrad, for the salvation of their souls and that the (souls) of their ancestors all they had at Ramsen in fields as well as forests, meadows, pastures and waters, and all the servants they had there, and maidservants, gave in their entirety to the Church of Blessed Mary and Des Blessed Georg and the sanctuary serving God there under the rule of Blessed Benedict in the presence of Burchard, the son of Berthold, who gave consent, and his two daughters Hatwid and Kunigunde. But when the aforementioned Hatwid died, they gave the church in question what they had in the district of Grinstadt for her soul . But when the said Burchard died, they gave this church what they had at Kanskirchen (Albersweiler- St. Johann ) in the form of church, tithes and allod. After the said Berthold died, they gave the church what they had at Isenburg , namely the ban, vineyards, lands, bodies of water, meadows, pastures, mills and whatever else they had there except the mounted and their allodes and what they had near Hettenheim and what they had near Nentersweiler (near Kaiserslautern ) in forests as well as in lands, pastures, waters and meadows and their income, how they yield, and what they had near Gladebach. But when Burchard, the son of Berthold, was dying, he gave this church the third part of the church and the tithe in Gimeldingen and two manses land near Bleessem ( Niederflörsheim ) for his soul . "

literature

  • Franz Xaver Remling : "Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria" , Volume 1, 1836; Scan of the chapter on Ramsen Monastery
  • Wollasch, H.-J .: The beginnings of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest. To develop the historical character of a monastery within the Hirsauer Reform (= research on the history of the Upper Rhine region FOLG 14) , Freiburg i.Br. 1964
  • Rudolf Zaremba: Ramosa Monastery: in the late Middle Ages the supreme patron of the stump forest in Donnersberg yearbook 1983 , Donnersbergkreis (ed.), 1982

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Arnold: Wormser Chronik von Friedrich Zorn , Stuttgart, 1857, page 216; Scan from the source