St. Nikomed (Mainz)

The St. Nikomed Church was one of the oldest churches in Mainz . A later monastic women's community and St. Nikomed himself were abolished in 1604 and incorporated into the Jakobskloster in Mainz .

history

The impetus for founding this church is attributed to Bishop Bothadus , one of the first tangible bishops of Mainz who is listed in early medieval bishops' lists. The church was built “in monte Martis” (later “in monte S. Jacobi”, also called “in monte specioso”), near the Drususstein , “in honor of our Lord Jesus Christ” (“in honorem D [omini] N [ostri ] J [esu] Christi ”). Later that of St. Nicomedes was designated as the patronage . The Roman martyr, whose exact lifetime is unknown, was especially venerated under Pope Boniface V (619–625). St. Nikomed is mentioned in 765 as a border neighbor in a Fulda document. In 1017 a new donation was made to the church , which had previously been donated by Pipin von Heristal . The relatively extensive equipment of St. Nicomed indicates that this church could only have been designed as a monastery. This would have made it the first Colombian Reformed monastery in Mainz. The Jesuit Nicolaus Serarius reports in his work Moguntiacarum Rerum about the location in front of the Porta Gentilium of the double fort Mogontiacum . Thus St. Nikomed should have been on the via sepulcrum .

literature

• Wolfgang Dobras : Mainz, St. Nikomed . In: Friedhelm Jürgensmeier : The men and women monasteries of the Benedictines in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland (= Germania Benedictina . Volume 9: Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland ). St. Ottilien 1999, ISBN 3-88096-609-5 , pp. 511-516.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Joseph Fuchs : Ancient History of Mainz . Volume 2, Mainz 1772, pp. LXXII – LXIII ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Reinhard Schmid: Mainz - St. Nicomedes. Historical outline. In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz , accessed on December 13, 2015 . 
3. ^ ^{A b} Franz Falk : The first millennium of Christian building and art activity in Mainz. in: Annals of the Society for Nassau antiquity and historical research . Volume 12, 1873, pp. 1-20.
4. ↑ Nicolaus Serarius: Moguntiacarum Rerum ab initio usque ad reverendissimum et illustrissimum hodiernum Archiepiscopum . Mainz 1604.

Web links

• Reinhard Schmid: Mainz - St. Nicomedes. Historical outline. In: Monasteries and monasteries in Rhineland-Palatinate. Institute for Historical Regional Studies at the University of Mainz , accessed on December 13, 2015 . 
• St. Nikomed in Mainz at regionalgeschichte.net
• St. Nikomed in the monastic dictionary of Rhineland-Palatinate

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 26.2 "  N , 8 ° 16 ′ 31.1"  E