St. Katharinen Monastery (near Bad Kreuznach)
The monastery Sankt Katharinen was in the area of today's local parish Sankt Katharinen near Bad Kreuznach and was a Cistercian monastery . It was settled at the beginning of the 13th century - Archbishop Siegfried II of Mainz confirmed the settlement in 1219 - by the nuns of the Kumbd Monastery and abolished by the Electoral Palatinate in 1574. The abbot of the Eberbach monastery in the Rheingau was in charge of supervision . It was one of the incorporated monasteries of Eberbach.
The founding narrative reproduced in German by Christian von Stramberg and Heinrich Pröhle , the narrative of the afterlife by a farmer Adalbert, goes back to the Latin Sponheim chronicle of Johannes Trithemius .
No structural remains have been preserved from the monastery.
literature
- Johannes Trithemius: Chronicon Sponheimense . In: Opera historica. Vol. 2. Ed. By Marquard Freher . Frankfurt 1601, pp. 261-267 Dilibri
- Johann Goswin Widder: Attempt of a complete geographical-historical description of the Kurfürstl. Palatinate on the Rhine . Vol. 4, Frankfurt / Leipzig 1788, pp. 92f. Google
- Eduard Schneegans: Kreuznach. Memories of a spa guest [...]. Siegen / Wiesbaden 1844, p. 100f. Google
- Johann Christian von Stramberg : Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius [...]. 2. Dept. Vol. 16, Koblenz 1869, pp. 276-280 Google
- J. Wagner: The St. Katharinenkloster near Roxheim . In: Pastor bonus 20 (1907/08), pp. 36-39 Internet Archive , Google-US
- The Cistercian monastery Eberbach at the turn of the ages . Mainz 2007, pp. 209–223, 671 (register for the edition)
- Stefan Benz: women's monastery in Central Europe. Directory and description of their historical culture 1550-1800 . Münster 2014, pp. 590f.
