Jakobsberg Priory

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Jakobsberg Monastery (Ockenheim)
Monastery church from the monastery garden with cloister.
Monastery church from the monastery garden with cloister.
location Jakobsberg Monastery 1, 55437 Ockenheim
Lies in the diocese Diocese of Mainz
Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '9 "  N , 7 ° 59' 12.7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 56 '9 "  N , 7 ° 59' 12.7"  E
Patronage 14 helpers
founding year 1921 by Trappists from the Dutch abbey in Echt until 1949.

From 1951 to 1960 the monastery complex housed the novitiate of the East German Province of the Jesuit Order before it was moved to Berlin-Kladow.

In late 1960 which acquired Abbey St. Ottilien of the Missionary Benedictines of the monastery.

Mother monastery Missionary Benedictine Archabbey of St. Ottilien, Erzabtei 1, 86941 St. Ottilien
Congregation Ottilian Congregation
Education center and youth center (right) of the priory
Interior of the monastery church

The Jakobsberg Monastery, also known as the Jakobsberg Priory, is a monastery of the Mission Benedictines on the Jakobsberg near Ockenheim in Rheinhessen .

history

The monastery developed from a pilgrimage founded in 1720 in honor of the fourteen helpers in need . At first there was only a small chapel with a hermitage . The new chapel, which still exists today, was built from 1857 to 1862 according to plans by Ignaz Opfermann and then consecrated by Bishop Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler . The interior was painted romantically and religiously with Nazarene pictures between 1864 and 1869 by the brothers Fritz, Pedro and Heinz Muth from Worms . The adjoining house, which later became the "St. Christoph House", was built only a little later.

Due to the enormous popularity of the pilgrimage, the idea of ​​entrusting a monastery community with its implementation arose as early as the 19th century. The first monks, then Trappists , did not move in until 1921. Between 1922 and 1929, changes were made to the chancel and the side altars, such as the installation of choir stalls. The monks from Jakobsberg had to accept impairments of monastery life up to and including dissolution during the time of National Socialism . After the general government of the Trappists had ordered the abolition of the community under pressure in 1930, this was implemented in 1949, with some delay.

Between 1951 and 1960 the novitiate of the East German Province of the Jesuit Order was housed in the monastery.

With the unrest in Africa of the 1960s, many orders active in missions were forced to recall their confreres from the crisis regions in order to forestall expulsion. Therefore, at the end of this decade, the Mission Benedictines of St. Ottilien acquired the buildings on Jakobsberg. The first group of monks moved in on January 31, 1961.

The choir arch was clad in 1972 with colored ceramic reliefs of the 14 helpers in need. This choir arch separates the chancel from the nave. A 4.5 m high pantocrator glass mosaic by the artists Peter Paul Etz , then a lecturer at the Landeskunstschule in Mainz, and Gustel Stein (Mainz) was designed in 1952/53 and executed in the apse .

In 1983 and 1990 new buildings were erected and renovated: the monastery, education center and youth center. Since then, these have served as an educational establishment and cultural center for the Diocese of Mainz and the Benedictines at Jakobsberg Monastery. Another six-month renovation phase was completed in February 2009. The altar made of 1.2 ton red sandstone as the central point moved more towards the inside of the church, the ambo and tabernacle now form an axis in the choir.

gallery

literature

  • Benedictine missionaries Jakobsberg (ed.): The Jakobsberg . EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien
    • Vol. 1: Mountain - Pilgrimage - Monastery . 1983, 2nd edition 1992, ISBN 3-88096-660-5 (= contributions to the history of the Gau-Algesheim area; Vol. 7)
    • Vol. 2: Mountain - Pilgrimage - Monastery - From Ockenheim . 1987 (= contributions to the history of the Gau-Algesheim area; vol. 21).
  • Aegidius Müller: The Jakobsberg near Ockenheim , in: The holy Germany. History and description of all places of pilgrimage in the German Empire . Vol. 1. 1887 p. 430 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Priorat Jakobsberg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Karl Johann Brilmayer : Rheinhessen in the past and present - history of the existing and departed cities, spots, villages, hamlets and farms, monasteries and castles of the province of Rheinhessen along with an introduction . Emil Roth Verlag, Mainz 1905, p. 230.
  2. ^ Dieter Krienke: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate 18.1 = Mainz-Bingen district . Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2007. ISBN 978-3-88462-231-5 , p. 296.
  3. Faith and Life . Newspaper of the Diocese of Mainz. dated February 15, 2009.