St. Johannes Monastery (Alzey)

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Saint John Monastery
Patronage John the Baptist
founding year around 1290
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1564

The St. Johannes Monastery was one of the three Cistercian monasteries in Alzey in Rheinhessen .

history

The monastery was built around 1290 as a subsidiary of the neighboring monastery of the Holy Spirit . In 1262, the Knight Peter von Alzey gave it patronage over the Sank Johanneskapelle at the monastery. At this chapel, the order built the monastery of St. John as a new monastery. Both monasteries existed in parallel for a time. The monastery of the Holy Spirit was probably merged into the new monastery in the Middle Ages.

The St. Johannes Monastery was a committed women's monastery of the Eberbach Monastery . Its abbot was commissioned to visit the monastery of St. John.

Many members of the convent came from the regional noble families who made donations to the monastery. The Count Palatine were important patrons . In 1502, four daughters of Count Palatine Philipp were raised in the monastery. At that time (1501) the convention comprised a total of 29 members plus schoolgirls. The monastery received income from 22 localities.

The monastery was founded in 1564 by Elector Friedrich III. repealed by the Palatinate in the course of the Reformation and converted into a hospital for the welfare of the poor. The monastery estates were converted into a manorial estate .

The buildings of the monastery on Dautenheimer Landstrasse were demolished at the end of the 1780s. In 1963 archaeological excavations were carried out on the former monastery grounds.

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