Himmelthal Monastery

The Himmelthal Monastery (German: Kloster Himmelthal) was a Cistercian nunnery in Elsenfeld in Bavaria. It was founded by 1232 by Count Louis II von Rieneck and his wife Adelheid von Henneberg.[1] It was extinct by 1568, when the Archbishopric of Mainz reused it as a Kameralhof. This was used by the Jesuits from 1595 and formally passed to them in 1626. After the German Jesuits were dissolved in 1773, the estate reverted to the Archbishopric of Mainz, which assigned it to an educational establishment. Since 1814 it has been owned by the Gymnasiumsfonds des Stiftungsamtes Aschaffenburg. Some eighteenth-century panels showing the organisation's holdings are now in the Stiftsmuseum of Aschaffenburg.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Massimo Greco; Armando Carravetta; Renata Della Morte (15 June 2004). River Flow 2004: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, 23-25 June 2004, Napoli, Italy, Two Volme Set. CRC Press. p. 1285. ISBN 978-1-4822-9834-5.
  2. ↑ Gordon McLachlan (2004). The Rough Guide to Germany. Rough Guides. pp. 201–4. ISBN 978-1-84353-293-4.

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Coordinates: 49°49′20″N 9°13′10″E / 49.8222°N 9.2194°E / 49.8222; 9.2194

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