Brunnenburg monastery ruins

West wall of the former monastery church

Remnants of the choir

The ruins of the Brunnenburg monastery are located above the Lahn valley near Bremberg . From the former Benedictine convent , only parts of the choir , the westwork and the side aisles are preserved today. The monastery was founded around 1200 by the count's daughter Gisela von Katzenelnbogen , a niece of Count von Arnstein. The structurally well-preserved Arnstein monastery near Obernhof (founded as a Premonstratensian monastery ) is closely linked to the founding of the monastery . In 1224 the name "Brunenburc" appears for the first time in a document.

The Brunnenburg Abbey was dissolved in the course of the Reformation in 1542 and has since fallen into ruin. The Lahnhöhenweg with the Lahn-Camino (section of the Jakobsweg ), the E1 long-distance hiking trail and the regional monastery path lead to this historic site, from which a good view of the Lahn valley and the opposite heights opens up.

literature

• Maag, Ingrid · Maag, Günter: The buildings of the enclosure of the former Brunnenburg ad Lahn monastery. Fourth part. With 11 illustrations in the text and 16 illustrations on plates as well as the leaflet VII. In Nassauische Annalen Volume 94, Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und Geschichtsforschung; Wiesbaden 1983, pp. 101-136; ISSN  0077-2887

• Maag, Ingrid · Maag, Günter: The buildings of the enclosure of the former Brunnenburg ad Lahn monastery. Third part. With 5 illustrations in the text and leaflet VI; In the Nassau Annals Volume. 92, publishing house of the association for Nassau antiquity and historical research; Wiesbaden 1981, pp. 42-58; ISSN  0077-2887

• Krings, P. Bruno: On the membership of the monastery Brunnenburg ad Lahn; In Nassauische Annalen Volume 85, Verlag des Verein für Nassauische Altertumskunde und historical research; Wiesbaden 1974, pp. 243-244; ISSN  0077-2887

• Vogel, CD: Contributions to the history of the Brunnenburg Monastery; In Nassauische Annalen - Volume 4, Wiesbaden 1850 (1), pp. 111-125

Web links

Commons : Brunnenburg Abbey Ruins  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rhein-Zeitung "Pictures of our country" Dec. 2006
• March 9, 1333: Seelstiftung Graf Gerlachs von Nassau. Regest no. 10674. Regests of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Often wrongly referred to as the Premonstratensian monastery (see: Laurenburg - Brief No. 18, November 2006 ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice (PDF file; 465 kB); accessed on February 27, 2010 and the notice board on site). 

Coordinates: 50 ° 18 ′ 43 ″  N , 7 ° 54 ′ 38 ″  E