Engelthal Monastery

In 268, the Knights of Buch and the Friedberg burgrave Rupert von Carben founded the monastery and handed it over to the Cistercian Order. The founder Konrad von Büches lived in the monastery until his death in 1294; his gravestone has been preserved. Engelthal Monastery was subordinate to the Cistercian Abbey of Arnsburg near Lich until it was abolished in 1803. The monastery was completely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and the sisters of the monastery fled to Aschaffenburg in 1622. From 1666 to 1750 the monastery was rebuilt in the late Baroque style on the ruins of the old monastery complex. With a church, convent and farm buildings and a representative abbess building, the monastery essentially received its current shape. In 1803 it was secularized by the Reichsdeputationshauptfassung, the 24 nuns were sent back to their families, and the last abbess died in Frankfurt in 1823.
In 1962 the monastery buildings were repopulated by Benedictine nuns from Herstelle Abbey. As early as 1965, the monastery, which belonged to the Beuron Benedictine Congregation, was elevated to an abbey status.

The Engelthal Monastery has existed at this historic site since 1962. It is an active monastery. Various events take place here, such as concerts, courses and readings.

New paths into the future
Engelthal will change
Quote:
...We sisters will leave this place Engelthal in the foreseeable future and move to the Rochusberg above Bingen.
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Source from May 28, 2025
web.archive.org/web/20250528033224/https://abtei-kloster-engelthal.de/aktuelles/neue-wege-in-die-zukunft.html=========================The history of our monastery:
web.archive.org/web/20250520152854/https://abtei-kloster-engelthal.de/achtsam/tradition