Seligenthal (victory)

Seligenthal District town of Siegburg Coordinates: 50 ° 47 ′ 45 "  N , 7 ° 16 ′ 36"  E
Height :	approx. 90 m
Postal code :	53721
Primaries :	02241, 02242
Location of Seligenthal in North Rhine-Westphalia

Seligenthal is a district of the district town of Siegburg in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Geographical location

Seligenthal is located in the Bergisches Land around 4.5 km east of the Siegburg core city at an altitude of 65 to 140  m above sea level. NHN . In the Bergisches Land nature park , it is located in the valley of the Wahnbach , which is dammed north of the village by the Wahnbach dam. In the south, the Wahnbach valley opens up towards Sieg .

history

The oldest Franciscan church north of the Alps , the Seligenthal monastery, is located in Seligenthal . It was originally founded as a hermitage in 1231 by Count Heinrich von Sayn and his wife Mechthild von Landsberg . In 1255 the monastery church was consecrated. In 1647 the church and monastery in Seligenthal burned down. On October 21, 1654, the Order of the Minorites founded a small settlement in the hermitage of the former monastery. They received the building on the condition that they set up a two-class trivial school.

In 1709, the St. Roch Chapel was consecrated to St. Roch as the patron saint of prisoners, sick people, doctors, pharmacists and grave diggers as thanks for averting the contagious disease of the red dysentery . Even today there is a pilgrimage to Seligenthal on Rochustag, August 16.

On September 12, 1803, the Minorite monastery was dissolved in the course of secularization and the property was sold.

After the abolition of the monastery in 1803, regular school lessons were only offered again in Seligenthal in 1834. The former monastery church became a parish church in 1834. From 1878 the Seligenthal pupils were taught in the neighboring village of Kaldauen .

On August 1, 1969, as part of the municipal reorganization of the area around Bonn ( Bonn Law ) Seligenthal was reclassified to the city of Siegburg. Previously, Seligenthal belonged to the Lauthausen community .

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  The parish church

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  A crossroads

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  The Rochus Chapel

literature

• Eva-Maria Günther: The Franciscan Church Seligenthal. Order architecture between asceticism and claim to representation. Rheinlandia, Siegburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-938535-63-9 ( publication of the history and antiquity association for Siegburg and the Rhein-Sieg district 31).
• Wilhelm Felten: On the history of the Minorite monastery Seligenthal ad Sieg. In: Heimatblätter of the Siegkreis. First volume, second issue (April), Gericke, Siegburg 1925. pp. 27–54. Also published in: Franziskanische Studien, Volume 16 (1929), pp. 275-302.

Web links

Commons : Seligenthal (Siegburg)  - Collection of images

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1. ↑ Text of the law on local reorganization