Cistercian Abbey of All Saints
The Cistercian Abbey of All Saints was a women's monastery in Oberwesel from 1230 to 1802 .
history
In 1230 nuns in Oberwesel, where the Cistercian Abbey of Wörschweiler had owned a courtyard with a chapel since 1209, founded a Cistercian women's monastery (Immediatoberer: Wörschweiler), which moved to the remote Niederbachtal in 1236. With the support of the Bishop of Trier , the Lords of Schönburg (Rhine) and citizens of Oberwesel, a convent and monastery were built (inauguration in 1322). From 1340, the nuns maintained a hospital for the poor. After it was destroyed by fire in 1460, the abbey was rebuilt and existed until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1802, with which all monasteries were dissolved. A fire destroyed the church in the same year, another in 1825 the rest of the monastery.
literature
- Gregor Monschauer, The Cistercian Convent of All Saints in Oberwesel , Bingen, Pennrich, 2010 (articles on the history of the city of Oberwesel 1, 72 pages).
- Bernard Peugniez , Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, p. 573.
- Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 415.