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Nothgottes Monastery
Historic pilgrimage chapel
Interior view of the three-aisled Gothic chapel in a staggered construction
Representation of the monastery (around 1838)

Nothgottes is the name of a sanctuary and Cistercian - monastery in the district Eibingen , a district of Rudesheim am Rhein in the Rheingau .

Geographical location

Nothgottes is located 214 meters above sea level in a forest valley of the Rheingau mountains north of the confluence of the Kühtränker trench in the Blaubach , the valley of which opens to the southeast towards Geisenheim . To the northwest, the site is dominated by the wooded crest of the Nothgotteskopf ( 298.7  m ) and to the north is a forest clearing, at the end of which lies the Plixholz ruins . South of Nothgottes up leads on the mountain side Nothgottesstraße the settlement Windeck , together with the St. Hildegard Abbey is above the vineyards of the Rüdesheimer hamlet Eibingen. To the south-west, the forest-free Ebental plateau rises above the wooded valley slopes.

history

The basis of the monastery was a chapel, which, according to legend , was laid out in 1390 by knight Brömser after one of his farmers found the image of the blood sweating savior while plowing and at the same time heard the cry of “God's need”.

In the 15th century it was expanded to become a pilgrimage church . An indulgence has been granted for the pilgrimage since 1449 . In the early modern period, Nothgottes was a popular place of pilgrimage . In the present every year on the first Sunday of September, a foot pilgrimage from Kruft arrives in Nothgottes. The pilgrims of the Nothgottes Brotherhood , the number of which now fluctuates between 60 and 80, set out from their home town two days earlier. The oldest pilgrimage from Kruft is said to have come to Nothgottes in 1674 and, according to oral tradition, has never been interrupted to this day. The pilgrimage should be based on a promise due to a plague epidemic .

A Capuchin monastery was built between 1620 and 1622 . This monastery existed until the secularization in 1813.

Between 1932 and 1938 it was used as a monastery for the poor servants of Jesus Christ . They returned to this place in 1945, but now used it as a branch of the Marienhausen Monastery near Aulhausen . At the end of 1951 they left the monastery. Until 2006 the former monastery was a retreat and education center for the Limburg diocese . From 2006 to 2012 it was inhabited by the Beatitudes Community . In September 2013 the Nothgottes monastery was settled by Cistercian monks from Vietnam, who received additional staff in 2014. The monks come from the South Vietnamese Abbey of Chau Son Don Duong and maintain a contemplative life. The prior is Father Josef Tran Thanh Hai OCist. 210 years after the end of the old Cistercian Abbey of Eberbach (1803), monks of this order have resettled in the Rheingau.

The Nothgottes house has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .

Bells

In the roof turret of the pilgrimage chapel hang two bronze bells, which were cast in 1934 by the renowned Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen and which survived the destruction of the bells by the Nazis. The bells are tuned to gis and h . They have the following diameters: 499 mm and 419 mm and weigh: 75 kg, 45 kg.

literature

  • Anneliese Triller : God of Necessity in the Rheingau . Frauenseelsorgeamt Diocese Limburg (ed.), Pallottiner, Limburg 1954. OCLC 614952442
  • Karl Rolf Seufert : The intellectual currents have never dried up . In: The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Freundeskreis Kloster Eberbach eV (Hrsg.): Eberbach im Rheingau . Cistercian - Culture - Wine. The Hessian Minister for Agriculture and Forests, Wiesbaden / Eltville 1986, p. 9-40 .
  • Paul Claus: On old pilgrim paths to Nothgottes and to Marienthal. In: Rheingau-Forum 11, 4, 2002, ISSN  0942-4474 , pp. 31-36.
  • Werner Lauter: Pilgrimage monastery Nothgottes . In: Rheingau-Forum 13, 1, 2004, pp. 12–22.
  • Kilian Müller: The lifting of the pilgrimage Nothgottes in the Rheingau. A painting of time. According to unprinted sources. Kirchheim, Mainz 1907 ( digitized version ) ( publications from the archive of the Rhenish-Westphalian Capuchin Province . 1, ZDB -ID 2045319-X ).
  • Elisabeth Will-Kihm: The wine dispenser at the blood-sweating Savior in Nothgottes. In: Rheingau-Forum 10, 4, 2001, pp. 12-17.
  • Elisabeth Will-Kihm: The abolition of pilgrimage and Nothgottes monastery in the Rheingau. In: Rheingau Forum. 12, 3, 2003, pp. 2-7.

Web links

Commons : Kloster Nothgottes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 50 ° 0 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 7 ° 55 ′ 32.9 ″  E

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto Glocken - family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty, self-published, Essen 2019, 588 pages, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , here in particular p. 539.
  2. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen. Nijmegen 2019, 556 pages, Diss.Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770, here in particular p. 497.