Madburg monastery ruins

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Madburg near Kehrig

The Mädburg (Medeberg) monastery ruins are the remains of a high medieval monastery in Kehrig , a local community in the district of Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate .

Geographical location

The ruin lies on a small plateau about 20 meters above the valley floor, which is bordered to the northwest by a rocky steep slope. Not far from the mouth of the Klosterbach, which rises in Kehrig, the Elz flows around the plateau.

history

Madburg near Kehrig

The name Mädburg (formerly also Medtburg or Methburg) comes, according to the chroniclers, from a remodeling of Madersberg, which still exists today under this name on the opposite side of the valley.

According to written sources, it is known that this building is a Mariakapelle, which was built before 1350 and expanded after 1350. This extension was a pilgrimage church that was built in honor of Saint Luzia. After 1700 the annex was provided with a partition wall. According to a document, a Heinrich Muhl von Neuerburg (* 1325 +1372), son of Heinrich von der Neuerburg, both descendants of Metfried (Wied) , set up a generously endowed benefit for the later monastery . From 1715 the monastery served as a center for hermits in the Archdiocese of Trier for a short period .

The demolition of the monastery must have taken place around 1810. In a newspaper report from August 1, 1928 it says: "Around 1810, under French rule, the chapel, the rectory and the monastery were condemned to demolition."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Willi K. Michels: Chapel, Benefice and Hermitage. Retrieved July 3, 2016
  2. ↑ Entry on the ruins of the monastery and the Mädburg chapel in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association , accessed on August 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ www.eifel.info Retrieved on July 1, 2016

Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 52.2 ″  E