St. Jakob (Donnersberg)
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 Gothic sacrament niche in the monastery church, today the Waldhaus restaurant, Donnersberg |
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| place | Dannenfels | |
| Architectural style | Gothic | |
| Construction year | 1335 | |
| demolition | 1855 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 37 '34 " N , 7 ° 55' 30.3" E | |
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St. Jakob is a former monastery on the Donnersberg , district Dannenfels , in the Donnersbergkreis , Rhineland-Palatinate .
history
1335 gave counts of Sponheim an already existing within the Celtic located Ringwallanlage James Chapel the priest Heinrich from the Holy grave Monastery Speyer to there is a "real monastery" the hermit Order of St. Paul ( Paulines to start). The parish of Kirchheimbolanden was subordinate to the aforementioned Speyer convent since 1214 , to which the chapel has now been attached. The Seelbuch of the later monastery records the death of the hermit friar Conrad von Dreis (en) as early as 1323 . Apparently he lived here alone, as a hermit. By a document of the Archbishop of Mainz Heinrich III. von Virneburg , from 1337, a pilgrimage already existing at that time to the above-mentioned Jakobskapelle on the Donnersberg is documented. The chapel is referred to as a hermitage in both the 1335 and 1337 documents .
The Paulines received the chapel, house and farmstead with field and forest in 1370, by Count Heinrich II. Von Sponheim-Bolanden , with the consent of Prior Friedrich von St. Grave Konvent Speyer (1371), and built a small monastery. In 1371 the count donated all of the above-mentioned properties to this monastery as a piece of equipment for himself, his wife Adelheid, and for all her ancestors and descendants, with two perpetual masses as seasons . Two indulgences in favor of the construction of the monastery, granted in 1380 by Cardinal Pietro Pileo di Prata , supported the new foundation. From around 1400 to 1418 the community looked after the Marien-Pilgrimage Chapel in Fischbach near Kaiserslautern , where the Fischbach Monastery was built. In a document dated January 4, 1449, the Mainz vicar general Siegfried Piscator entrusted the Jacob monastery with pastoral care in the castle chapel of Tannenfels Castle , which was consecrated to St. Maria .
On August 7, 1544, the Pauliner Provincial Niklaus Zorn handed over the now ruinous monastery with all its accessories to the sovereign, Count Johann Ludwig von Nassau-Saarbrücken . The count, who was faithful to the old faith, wanted to renovate the monastery again and it should be occupied again with 2 conventuals, but he died the following year. Nevertheless, the monastery property in Pfeddersheim was sold in 1546 and the renovation was financed. The Pauliner returned to the Donnersberg for a short time.
With the conversion of the counts to the Reformation, the monastery was dissolved around 1554. Count Albrecht von Nassau-Weilburg converted it into a stately hunting lodge, put courtiers in it and had the surrounding field cultivated. After the Thirty Years' War the property is described as destroyed, leased as an agricultural estate in 1670 and rebuilt. In a description of the Kirchheim rule in 1657 it says:
“Strange lies in the rule of the Donnersberg. At the top there is a beautiful airy plain and meadows and more than 200 acres of grass, on which there was a monastery of St. Jacob's, which was ruined and in the time of Count Albrecht was repaired into a hunting lodge, large stables were also built, but everything was ruined. In front of this monastery on the plain, a very strong and bright spring of healthy, good water jumps into five ponds that have been made for this purpose and now two repaired; are stocked with carp and trout. "
In 1855 the Bavarian state bought the area, demolished all but one of the buildings and reforested the area. The foundations of the estate near today's restaurant "Waldhaus" have been preserved. The inn is the last remnant of the farm building (day laborer's house) and was rebuilt in its current form in 1860. In the dining room, a Gothic sacrament niche from the 14th century, as well as a Romanesque decorative stone and a floor tile with an ornamental pattern are walled in from the old monastery . The tabernacle bears the Latin inscription: "hic est ver (e) deu (s)" (This is the true God). At the beginning of the 20th century, an enamelled pyxis (host box) from around 1200 was found on the former monastery grounds. It came to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer, but has been missing since 1945.
gallery
Romanesque decorative stone, Waldhaus restaurant, Donnersberg
Romanesque floor tile, Waldhaus restaurant, Donnersberg
literature
- Alfons Hoffmann: St. Jakob Monastery on the Donnersberg , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, 1958
- Nordpfälzer Geschichtsverein (Ed.): Castles, palaces and monasteries in the Northern Palatinate , Otterbach, 1984, ISBN 3-87022-083-X .
- Robert Plötz / Peter Rückert (eds.): Jakobuskult in the Rhineland. Gunter Narr Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-8233-6038-8 , p. 110ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Xaver Remling : Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 2, p. 171, Neustadt, 1836; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Alfons Hoffmann: St. Jakob Monastery on the Donnersberg , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, 1958, p. 8 u. 10
- ^ Franz Xaver Remling: Documented history of the former abbeys and monasteries in what is now Rhine Bavaria , Volume 2, p. 375 and 376, Neustadt, 1836; (Digital scan)
- ↑ Alfons Hoffmann: St. Jakob Monastery on the Donnersberg , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, 1958, pp. 29–32.
- ^ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district , Volume 3, Speyer, 1837, p. 53; (Digital scan)
- ^ Alfons Hoffmann: St. Jakob Monastery on the Donnersberg , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, 1958, pp. 17, 18, 45 u. 46
- ↑ ibid, p. 22
- ^ Alfons Hoffmann: St. Jakob Monastery on the Donnersberg , Pilger-Verlag, Speyer, 1958, p. 23.
- ^ Photo of the pyxis
