Rosenthal Abbey (Eifel)

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The Rosenthal Monastery ( Vallis Rosarum ) is a former Cistercian monastery in the Pommerbachtal below the municipality of Binningen in the Eifel , in today's Cochem-Zell district . Apart from a little chapel of Our Lady on the site of the former high altar , only a few remains of the walls have survived.

history

Chapel and remains of the wall of the former monastery Rosenthal in the Pommerbachtal

The monastery, possibly dedicated to the Mother of God, was probably founded in the second half of the 12th century for noble nuns. The identity of the founders is not clear. It could have been Dietrich von Wesel, a Count of Virneburg or a Herr von Schönberg. There were several countesses of Virneburg among the abbesses. In 1241 Demude von Bell donated a mass in the monastery. The parish of Hambuch was incorporated into him in 1251; In the 13th and 14th centuries it received further donations, but also rounded off its property through purchase. In 1304, the monastery submitted to the supervision and pastoral care of the Himmerod monastery . In 1322 the Vrye von Treis family donated a George altar. An altar of Our Lady is mentioned in 1422. In 1455 the convent asked Emperor Friedrich III. to protect against attacks by the neighboring lords of the castle. Since 1587 the abbesses of Rosenthal no longer came from the nobility. The union with the Oberwesel All Saints Monastery, which the Trier administration supported, did not materialize.

Monastery building

Chapel at the Rosenthal Monastery

In the 16th century, parts of the monastery buildings were dilapidated and were renovated. Construction work also had to be undertaken at the end of the 17th century. In 1784 the church and the adjoining monastery wing to the west were torn down. A new building was stopped in 1785 due to lack of funds, because only nine or ten nuns were left in the monastery. However, a donation enabled the new building, which was inaugurated in 1787 by the Abbot of Himmerod. In 1802 the monastery was closed in the wake of the French Revolution and the secularization of the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss and auctioned for demolition in 1804.

seal

The large seal of the monastery shows the enthroned Mother of God in front view with the child on the left knee and a lily in the right, the small seal of the Mother of God from the side with the standing child in front view. A sloping bar covered with lilies forms the background.

people

Abbesses

Abbesses Term of office
Christina 1251
Irmengard 1322-1340
Lucia 1350-1357
Demudis 1369
Elisabeth 1381
Katharina von Scharfenstein 1410-1442
Eva von Metternich 1540
Walpurgis of Virneburg 1546-1565
Ulinca from the noble family ?
Elisabeth Castell from Cologne ?
Katharina Esch 1622
Anna Katharina Keller 1627-1628
Anna Maria Kees 1679-1685
Anna Gertrudis Müller (or Molitors) 1686-1717
Elisabeth Ehll 1731
Maria Rosa Pellenz 1772-1794
Maria Rosalia Bachems 1794-1802

literature

  • Ernst Wackenroder (arrangement): The art monuments of the district of Cochem. (= Die Kunstdenkmäler von Rheinland-Pfalz III), Munich 1959, pp. 697–699
  • Peter Brommer, Achim Krümmel: Monasteries and monasteries. (Wegweiser Mittelrhein 6), Koblenz 1998, p. 105
  • Alfons Friderichs : Monasteries in the Cochem-Zell district. In: Annual report of the Kreissparkasse Cochem-Zell 1989, p. 31/5 with Siegel-Abb.
  • Teresa Gößl, Jan Kanngießer: Monastery ruins Rosenthal: history of a nunnery. Berlin 2006
  • Franz-Josef Heyen : On the founding history of the Rosenthal monastery. In: Kreisjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 1987, pp. 163-167.
  • Franz-Josef Knöchel: 750 years ago: The Rosenthal monastery received the Hambuch parish. In: Kreisjahrbuch Cochem-Zell 2001, pp. 194–197.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Main Archive Koblenz, Best. 1A, No. 11561
  2. ↑ Abbess Rosenthal Monastery, Historisches Ortlexikon Rheinland-Pfalz, Volume 1, Elmar Rettinger (Ed.) In the Google book search
  3. ^ Cistercian convent Rosenthal in the Pommerbachtal, In: Kultur Landschaft Digital (KuLaDig) , In a document from March 1251 a Christina is named as abbess: soror Cristina abbatissa et conventus monialium de Valle rosarum ...

Coordinates: 50 ° 11 ′ 57.1 ″  N , 7 ° 13 ′ 34 ″  E