Rupertsberg Monastery

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Rupertsberg Monastery during the Thirty Years War
Ruin Rupertsberg Monastery
Rupertsberg vault
St. Hildegard on a certificate of indulgence (Avignon) for the Rupertsberg Monastery, LHA Koblenz, 1342

The monastery Rupertsberg was a convent of Benedictine nuns in Bingen . It was founded by Hildegard von Bingen around 1150 and was located on the Rupertsberg on the left side of the Nahe at its confluence with the Rhine .

history

Hildegard von Bingen left the Disibodenberg monastery between 1147 and 1150 to found her own monastery over the grave of St. Rupert . The Rupertsberg was conveniently located on the traffic and communication routes of the Rhine and the Nahe. After an old chapel initially served as a church, the new monastery complex was gradually built.

The three-aisled monastery church was consecrated in 1152 by Archbishop Heinrich von Mainz . At this time, Hildegard's first work Liber Scivias had already achieved great fame. Most of her works were created during the time on the Rupertsberg, in the scriptorium of the monastery they were also copied by hand and found their way all over the world.

The monastery lost part of its importance with the death of the founder in 1179. It was destroyed by the Swedes in the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War in 1632 and was never rebuilt afterwards, but served from then on as an agricultural monastery for Hildegard's second monastery, the Eibingen monastery on the other side of the Rhine near Rüdesheim am Rhein . The last Rupertsberg nuns had fled there after various intermediate stops. With them came the bones of Saint Hildegard to Eibingen , as well as Hildegard's writings and other relics .

After their destruction, the remains of the building were used as a quarry for the construction of the farm buildings of the monastery, only the ruins of the monastery church were spared. In 1857 the entire ruin had to give way to the construction of the Nahe Valley Railway by the Rhein-Nahe Railway Company . When the rock on which the monastery was located was blown up, the grave crypt under the choir was also destroyed.

Five arches of the former monastery church are preserved in a complex of vaulted cellars, which were built between the 17th and 19th centuries. The Rupertsberger Gewölbe is now used by the Rupertsberger Hildegard Society as an event location and can be visited. The main state archive of Koblenz stores a large part of the former monastery archive of Rupertsberg Abbey.

literature

  • Charlotte Kerner : All the beauty of heaven: The life story of Hildegard von Bingen (= Gulliver paperbacks , Bd. 824). Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim 2009, ISBN 340778824X , p. 105.
  • Julia-Maria Warkentin: The influence of women's mysticism on the development of the German language. GRIN, Munich / Ravensburg 2011, ISBN 3656042284 , p. 8.
  • Werner Schäfke: The Rhine from Mainz to Cologne: A journey through the romantic Rhine Valley. DuMont, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3770147995 , p. 79.
  • Hildegard von Bingen. Places of work. "Hagiography / Iconography / Folklore" series. 4th edition. Schnell & Steiner publishing house, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7954-8000-4 .
  • Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 420 ("Cistercian women lived here from 1215").

Web links

Commons : Rupertsberg Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rupertsberg . "Land der Hildegard" portal of the city of Bingen am Rhein, accessed on December 26, 2016.
  2. ^ Rupertsberger Gewölbe Rupertsberger Hildegard Society Bingen eV
  3. ^ The documents of the Benedictine Abbey Rupertsberg near Bingen (Order 164). State Main Archive Koblenz , accessed on December 26, 2016 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 57 '56.9 "  N , 7 ° 53' 21.1"  E