Sion Monastery (Mauchenheim)

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Sion Monastery
Reconstructed wall of the Sion monastery
Reconstructed wall of the Sion monastery
Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '37.7 "  N , 8 ° 1' 28.3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 42 '37.7 "  N , 8 ° 1' 28.3"  E
founding year 1247
Cistercian since 1247
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1566

The Sion Monastery was a Cistercian convent near Mauchenheim near Alzey in Rheinhessen . The name refers to Zion , the heavenly Jerusalem .

history

The monastery was probably founded in the early to mid-13th century. The founders of the monastery were the Truchsess von Alzey . The first documentary mention was made in 1247. The monastery was incorporated into the Disibodenberg monastery that supervised it. However, the visitations were carried out from 1265 by the Eberbach monastery , to whose filiation Disibodenberg belonged.

The monastery was sponsored by the von Löwenstein family . In 1248 these transferred the tithe and the patronage of the parish church of Spiesheim . From 1296 the monastery is the family burial place .

Many members of the convent came from the regional noble families who made large donations to the monastery.

The monastery was founded in 1566 by Elector Friedrich III. Palatine during the reformation lifted and in a stately Hofgut converted. At this point, the size of the convent, as in many other monasteries, had already decreased significantly.

Sion was not the only Cistercian convent in the vicinity of Mauchenheim. Even older was the Paradies monastery , which was probably located directly in the village.

Buildings and plant

Nothing has survived from the monastery. A reconstructed monastery wall, in which a Kneipp facility is integrated, reminds of the monastery. The restoration of the monastery wall was carried out on a voluntary basis and financed from funds from the medieval market in Mauchenheim, which was held in 1997 for the 750th anniversary of the monastery.

literature

  • Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical - historical - statistical description of the royal. Bayer. Rhine Circle Third Part; Speyer 1837; Page: 286–290
  • Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria ; I. part; Neustadt an der Haardt 1836; Pages: 294–298
  • Jürgen Keddigkeit and Matthias Untermann : Sion, St. Maria. In: Jürgen Keddigkeit u. a. (Ed.): Palatinate Monastery Lexicon. Handbook of the Palatinate Monasteries, Stifts and Comingos. Vol. 4, Kaiserslautern 2017, pp. 90-102
  • Johannes Knobloch: Under Sions crook - Offenheim in the late Middle Ages. In: Ortsgemeinde Offenheim (Hrsg.): Festbuch 1250 years Offenheim. Anniversary weekend from 8th to 10th June 2018, Offenheim 2018, pp. 76–81
  • Anton Ph. Brück: Christian life in Alzey in the Middle Ages. In: Friedrich Karl Becker et al. (Ed.): 1750 years of Alzey. Festschrift, Alzey 1973, pp. 152–167

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dehio / Gall: Rheinhessen and Pfalz, 1952, p. 115
  2. ↑ Photo of one of the information boards on the building (accessed July 27, 2020)