Ravengiersburg Monastery

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The Ravengiersburg monastery is located in the Ravengiersburg community in the central Hunsrück .

Until 1566 the monastery was an Augustinian canon monastery , today the monastery is owned by the Catholic Church .

history

Hunsrück Cathedral in Ravengiersburg

The monastery was founded in 1074 by Count Berthold and Hedwig von Ravengiersburg, who had remained childless and gave up all of their possessions, as an Augustinian Canons' Monastery . It was then founded by Archbishop Siegfried I of Mainz for 12 canons. It is considered the oldest monastery in the Hunsrück region. The monastery church is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Christophorus . Monastery governors were the wild counts , later the lords of Heinzenberg (as wild counts fiefdom ). After the Heinzenbergs died out in 1395 and the Wildgraves died out in 1408, the Count Palatine received the bailiwick of the monastery. In 1410 the entire Propsteig area with the monastery was transferred to the newly created Duchy of Pfalz-Simmern-Zweibrücken (later Pfalz-Simmern ). The Propsteiggebiet included the district courts Nunkirch and Biebern with numerous localities.

By the time of the Reformation , the monastery developed into the largest landowner between the Moselle and Nahe. The monastic tradition ended in 1564, and several attempts at revival failed. In 1631 it was finally burned down by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years' War . The current nave was built between 1718 and 1722 by Elector Karl III. Philip of the Palatinate erected.

In 1920 there was a re-establishment as a philosophical-theological religious college of the missionaries of the Holy Family (Provincialate in Düren or Mainz). Between 1970 and 2006 the Catholic Workers' Movement ran a training center for disadvantaged young people in the monastery buildings.

Building history

Detail of the Romanesque west facade

Before the monastery was founded, there was a castle on the site. Little is known about the early history of the church and how construction began. However, it is certain that the massive west facade with its wide, approximately 40 meter high Romanesque towers was built in the late 12th or early 13th century. The relief of Christ enthroned in the mandorla under the dwarf gallery between the towers and probably also the crucifix at the same height on the south tower come from this time . After a fire in 1440, the nave was probably rebuilt in 1497 in the Gothic style . It cannot be ruled out that there were two construction periods in Gothic times; in the first one probably originated hall church and one in the second hall church .

There was destruction in the Thirty Years War. The nave of today's church was built in the early 18th century as a simplified restoration of the Gothic nave, which includes the old surrounding walls and buttresses. The vaults were removed and replaced with a flat ceiling.

Furnishing

The approximately 11 meter high high altar from 1722 is a work from the Baroque period . It is veneered in walnut, with pillars next to and above the altar table and attached sculptures . The crucifix stands in a large arched niche above the tabernacle . The oval painting above shows Saint Christopher . Between the crucifix and the painting is the coat of arms of Elector Karl Philipp von der Pfalz . The side altars to the left and right of the triumphal arch were built around ten years after the high altar and are adapted in style to it. The pulpit , which came from the St. Nicholas Church in Bad Kreuznach to Ravengiersburg in the 19th century , also fits harmoniously into the overall picture.

Ravengiersburg Provostry

The following villages belonged to the provost of Ravengiersburg in 1599:

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Back : The Ravengiersburg monastery and its surroundings. A contribution to the older history of the dog's back. 2 volumes. Koblenz 1841/53
  • Fritz Arens : Klosterkirche Ravengiersburg , Große Baudenkmäler , Issue 158, 6th edition, Munich / Berlin 1983
  • Willi Wagner: The Augustinian Canons Ravengiersburg. History of the monastery, the manor and property from the beginning to the abolition in 1803. Simmern 1977
  • Willi Wagner: The former Augustinian canons of Ravengiersburg and the Nunkirche near Sargenroth , Rheinische Kunststätten Heft 453, Cologne 2000

Individual evidence

  1. H. Beyer : Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . tape 1 : From the oldest times up to the year 1169. Koblenz 1860, p. 431 ( full text in Google Book Search).

Web links

Commons : Ravengiersburg Abbey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '8.4 "  N , 7 ° 28' 36.6"  E