Springiersbach
The monastery Springiersbach is a former Augustinian Canons and now a convent of the Carmelites at villain in the Eifel region, 16 km from Wittlich.
History
The monastery was consecrated in 1102 by Bruno Lauffen, 1102-1124 Archbishop of Trier, in the presence of the Count Palatine Siegfried I of Ballenstedt. This consecration is considered the founding of the monastery Springiersbach, named after the creek and valley. First abbot was Richard I († 1158 ), son of Benigna de Duna ( Benigna von Daun ), a noble ministry officials from the Eifel, on whose farm Thermunt, she inherited the archbishop with all lands, the first cell of the monastery was built. The Augustine rule with silence, fasting, and prayer work was selected as the Rule and was the basis of the Community. In 1136 the remains of St. Abrunculus of Trier were transferred to the abbey.
Already in 1107 the monastery was removed from the Archbishop in the turmoil of the Crusades, the brothers were allowed to choose their abbot free. Access to the community received only nobles who had to leave their entire acquis of the monastery - including lands, forests, villages, which meant an unprecedented economic boom for the monastery. So the monastery had about 1140 already Vineyards Bridal ( Briedel ) on the Mosel. 1144 were the rights and possessions of the monastery by the Roman-German King Conrad III. and again in 1193 by Emperor Henry VI. confirmed.
On January 30, 1299, the monastery acquired a second winery in " Pleyt " in Edegry ( Ediger ). In 1752 was built under Abbot Johann Heinrich von seamount ( 1728-1758 ) new Springiersbacher the court in Ediger. 1794 took over the management of the Hofmann Nikolaus Becker Springiersbacher Court in Ediger.
The Vineyard of the monastery Springriersbach consisted of three classes with different numbers of poles: the first class had 1693 sticks, the 2nd class 1481 sticks and the third class was the largest with 7262 sticks. Becker gave half of the wine to the monastery. In the term of office of the first abbot Richard I. fell in 1129 and the founding of the noble Augustinian pin " Our Lady 's Outside the Walls " to Andernach by restoring the ruined monastery of St. Mary at the instigation of Meginher of Vianden, Archbishop of Trier. 1135, the three-nave Romanesque basilica of the monastery by the Archbishop of Trier, A ( dal ) bero of Montreuil (* 1080, Archbishop 1131-1152 ) was consecrated. She was the first stone-built church of the monastery and replaced the old wooden church.
Over the next three hundred years the abbey grew in size and fame, but also went up the moral decay evident, despite interventions of Rome and the abbots far as manifested that after further centuries in 1791, finally, the then Archbishop of Trier and Elector Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony ( 1739-1812, Archbishop 1768-1801) the Augustinian monastery transformed into a secular nobility pen. 31 years later Springiersbach fell under the secularization of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and was closed, the centuries-old German monastery system abolished by the French Revolution. The built until 1769 rococo monastery church, built after the model of St. Johann and Ludwig Church Saarbrücken, was consecrated by the Bishop of Trier Charles Mannay to Bengeler parish church in 1802, and thus escaped the inevitable demolition. Beginning of the 20th century, the church was closed because Bengel had now been given its own parish church.
In 1922 the Upper German Province founded the Carmelites of Bamberg a small convent in Springiersbach monastery and took the 1940 spent and in 1946 built the church and the monastery buildings, which had been rebuilt in the second half of the 18th century Rococo style and the Romanesque buildings had replaced again.
In 1962, parts of the monastery restored by the architect Walter Neuhäusser and redesigned.
List of abbots
Organ of the monastery church
The organ of the church was in 1998 by the organ builder Hubert Sandtner ( Dillingen / Donau) built. The instrument has 27 stops on two manuals and pedal ( sliderchest ) and mechanical play and Registertrakturen.
- Couplers: II / I, I / P, II / P