Seligenthal Monastery (Sieg)

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The monastery complex
Today the Hotel Klosterhof is located in the monastery buildings

Seligenthal Monastery was founded as a Franciscan monastery in 1231 by Count Heinrich von Sayn and his wife Mechthild von Landsberg in Siegburg - Seligenthal . The monastery church was built in the Rhenish transition style. In 1803 the monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization .

origin

Originally the monastery was operated as the Hermitage of St. Anne's Monastery . In 1255, with the help of further donations, the Antonius Church was inaugurated as a monastery church. The first documented record of a pilgrimage to Seligenthal is documented in 1627.

In 1647 the monastery was badly damaged in a fire.

The church of the former monastery is now used as a parish church.

  • Seligenthal Abbey, aerial photo (2017)

  • Monastery church from the northwest

  • Monastery church from the northeast

  • Interior of the monastery church

  • organ

  • The crucifixion group in the old cemetery

founding

On October 21, 1654, Minorites founded a small settlement in the hermitage. They received the building with the condition that a two-class trivial school be set up in Siegburg. The south wing of the monastery was then rebuilt. A new rectory was also built in 1660.

Rochus Chapel

The Rochus Chapel

A chapel was consecrated to St. Roch in 1709 to avert the Red Ruhr . There are pilgrimages here on Rochustag, August 16. The other monastery buildings were built in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Modern times

After the dissolution of the monastery, the complex threatened to collapse. The monastery church was converted into a parish church in 1834 through a donation from a citizen of Siegburg.

Today there is a restaurant and hotel in the buildings. In 2007 Eva Becker established a new foundation for the monastery complex under the trust management of the German Foundation for Monument Protection .

literature

  • Eva-Maria Günther: The Franciscan Church Seligenthal. Order architecture between asceticism and claim to representation. Rheinlandia, Siegburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-938535-63-9 ( publication of the history and antiquity association for Siegburg and the Rhein-Sieg district 31).

Web links

Commons : Seligenthal Monastery (Siegburg)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 57 ″  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 47 ″  E