Wolf Monastery
The monastery Wolf was from 1478 to 1560 a branch of the Brethren of the Common Life (Frater Men) southwest of Wolf (since 1969: Traben-Trarbach) at the Mosel m on the Göckelsberg in 230 height.
history
The Liebfrauenkirche on the Göckelsberg, documented as early as 1255, is one of the oldest parish and St. Mary's churches on the Moselle. The parish was promoted by the Counts of Sponheim and the landed gentry.
In the early 15th century a pen-like college of altarists was built here . A monastery was founded in June 1478 after Frederick I of Palatinate-Simmern and Margrave Christoph I of Baden, as common rulers of the rear county of Sponheim , had called brother lords from Butzbach to Wolf. Twenty years later the foundation stone was laid for a more extensive monastery complex. All income and foundations of the parish had previously been transferred to the monastery. In 1517 the building was expanded.
In the course of the Reformation in the Hinteren Grafschaft Sponheim , the monastery was closed in 1560, and its income and property went to the schools and churches of the county. The cemetery was used until 1597.
In addition to the monastery, the brothers, who were also called " Kugelherren " after their headgear Gugel , ran a Latin school in Trier (closed in 1569). The Protestant parish church was built in 1685 on the cellar of the chapel they built in 1491 in Wolf. Since then, the monastery buildings on the Göckelsberg have fallen into disrepair.
Philipp Sartoris de Wyssenaue from Mergenthal became the first prior or praepositus of the monastery .
Buildings and plant
Little has survived from the Wolf Monastery. Of the former Liebfrauenkirche, the ruins of the Romanesque west tower from the 12th century and parts of the three-aisled nave and choir mainly from the 15th century. Recent studies suggest a previous building from Roman times.
literature
- General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - District of Bernkastel-Wittlich. Mainz 2020, p. 88 (PDF; 483 kB).
Web links
- Bernd Brauksiepe: Traben-Trarbach - Wolf Monastery. In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate.
- Bernd Brauksiepe: Traben-Trarbach - Wolf Monastery. History of architecture and art. In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate.
Coordinates: 49 ° 58 '25.3 " N , 7 ° 5' 28.1" E