Engelthal Abbey

Engelberg Abbey valley in the town of Old Town in Hessen Wetterau was from 1268 until the secularization in 1803, a Cistercian monastery and low needle pin. It was donated in 1268 by the Knights of the book and the Friedberger Viscount Rupert of carbene and was subject to the lifting of the Cistercian Abbey Arnsburg in Lich.

In the Thirty Years' War, the monastery was completely destroyed, the sisters of the monastery fled to Aschaffenburg 1622. Only from 1666 to 1750, the monastery was rebuilt in the late Baroque style on the ruins of the old monastery.

The diocese of Mainz acquired the 1961 exam district of the former abbey angel valley of a tenant family. 1962 was settled by Benedictine nuns of the Blessed Sacrament of the Abbey of the Holy Cross, Herstelle. The Beuronese the Congregation belonging to the monastery in 1965 an abbey.

In addition to the reception and care of guests a restoration workshop for church art is an important field of work of the sisters.

In April 2010, the monastery was complemented by a large new building, has been worked on since 2008. This new building is to important aspects of ecological restructuring of the energy supply, with a geothermal heating plays the main role. It replaced the western and southern cloister wing as well as the small farming in the west of the church, which had to be demolished due to disrepair.

Abbesses

• Diethild Eickhoff 1965-1986
• Gabriel Cosack 1989-2002
• Elisabeth Kralemann, since 2003