St. Georgenberg Monastery (Worms)

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The St. Georgenberg Monastery was a Benedictine provosty , which was located on the Georgenberg north of Worms-Pfeddersheim .

history

The Benedictine abbey Gorze in Lorraine, founded around 750, received various goods in Wormsgau , including property in Flomersheim as well as the church and an estate in Pfeddersheim , according to the entry in its cartular , which was created around 1170 , 754 or 765, by Bishop Chrodegang von Metz . The year 754 is therefore also regarded as the time of the first documentary mention of Pfeddersheim, although there are doubts about the accuracy of the donation years mentioned only 400 years later. In the year 793, a donation of goods in Dalsheim to the Pfeddersheim Church of St. Marien, which at that time already belonged to the Gorze Abbey, is proven. The Pfeddersheim church mentioned in each case is a predecessor building on the site of today's simultaneous church “Assumption of Mary” .

Initially, Benedictines sent from Gorze worked as pastors in Pfeddersheim, later the abbey founded a provost office there , i.e. a smaller branch convent. It is generally assumed that it was founded in the 10th century, but the provost's office can only be documented from 1173 onwards.

The monastery was located on what is now St. Georgenberg, north of Pfeddersheim, just a little above the city wall. The famous St. Georgenberg vineyard is still there today. At the convent there was a chapel dedicated to St. John the Baptist and the respective provost (monastery head) held the patronage right of the Pfeddersheim parish church of St. Marien. He also exercised the same rights in Flomersheim St. Gorgonius (later St. Stephan). The St. Georgenberg Monastery was headed by several provosts who later achieved high dignity.

In 1400 the cantor Colinus von St. Paul in Worms donated a cross altar in the Marienkapelle of the St. Georgenberg monastery in Pfeddersheim. Colinus was the nephew of Worms provost Conrad of Gelnhausen , first Chancellor of the University of Heidelberg .

During the Palatinate Peasants' War , the Battle of Pfeddersheim took place in June 1525 , in the final phase of which the rebellious farmers entrenched themselves in the St. Georgenberg monastery and which was therefore devastated.

In the course of the Reformation, the Electoral Palatinate abolished the monastery and incorporated the land and the slopes of its Pfeddersheim winery . The formal cancellation took place in 1550, the buildings on the Georgenberg were demolished in 1543/44 according to the Worms city archive.

The only remnant of the St. Georgenberg Monastery is a stone coffin from around the year 1000, which was excavated in 1981 on the former monastery grounds. He is currently standing in front of the Pfeddersheim town hall.

Toast

(not complete; in brackets, if known, the year it was mentioned)

literature

  • Peter Engels: Pfeddersheim, Georgenberg , brochure, EOS-Verlag, 1999
  • Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present. History of the existing and departed cities, towns, villages, hamlets and farms, monasteries and castles in the province of Rheinhessen , 1905, new edition 1985
  • Georg Wilhelm Justin Wagner : The desertions in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Volume 3, Province of Rheinhessen , pp. 145–147; Scans from the source

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liber amicorum necnon et amicarum for Alfred Heit , Volume 28 of Trier historical research , 1996, p. 147, ISBN 3923087276 ; Excerpt from the source
  2. ↑ Liber amicorum necnon et amicarum for Alfred Heit , Volume 28 of Trier historical research , 1996, p. 147, ISBN 3923087276 ; Excerpt from the source
  3. ^ Ferdinand Opll: The Regest of the Empire under Friedrich I , Part 2 of Regesta Imperii , Böhlau Verlag, 2001, p. 80, Regenst 2034; Scan 1 Scan 2
  4. ↑ Hans Ramge: The settlement and field names of the city and district of Worms , Volume 43 of contributions to German philology , 1979, p. 126, ISBN 3877110088 ; Excerpt from the source
  5. ↑ Website on the history of Flomersheim, with mention of the patronage right by the Provost zu St. Georgenberg, Pfeddersheim ( Memento from December 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Eberhard Zahn: Die Heiliggeistkirche zu Heidelberg: History and Shape , Volume 19 of publications of the Association for Church History in the Evangelical Church in Baden , 1960, p. 31, footnote 97; Excerpt from the source
  7. ^ Friedrich Wilken: History of the education, robbery and destruction of the old Heidelberg book collections , 1817, p. 18; Scan from the source
  8. ^ Julius Bernhard Engelmann: The renewed Merian or prehistory and present on the Rhine , Heidelberg, 1826, p. 252; Scan from the source
  9. ↑ Johannes Frey: Adoration of Saints and Family Names in Rheinhessen , Gießen 1938, p. 87; Excerpt from the source
  10. ^ Gerold Bönnen: The city archive of Worms and its inventory , Verlag der Landesarchivverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz, 1998, ISBN 3931014401 , p. 120; Excerpt from the source
  11. ↑ Website on Pfeddersheim, with mention and photo of the stone coffin ( memento from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Stadtarchiv Worms: 1250 years Pfeddersheim , 2004, p. 10; Excerpt from the source
  13. ^ Franz Staab, Thorsten Unger: Empress Adelheid and her monastery founding in Selz , publishing house of the Palatinate Society for the Advancement of Science in Speyer, 2005, ISBN 3932155211 , p. 289; Excerpt from the source
  14. ^ Genealogical page on the family

Coordinates: 49 ° 38 ′ 26 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 44"  E