Marienthal Abbey (Westerwald)

Marienthal Abbey (German: Kloster Marienthal) was a Franziscan monastery in the Westerwald in the present-day county of Altenkirchen in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Today Marienthal is a village in the municipality of Seelbach bei Hamm (Sieg), which had a population of 55 residents on 30 June 2011.[1]

Marienthal Abbey (Westerwald), 2017 aerial photograph
The former Franciscan monastery today houses a café

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The Kreuzweg (crosses way) is a hiking trail on the area around the former monastery. The chapel is still in use for regular worship. An attraction is the Grotte of Marienthal.

The official address is Am Kloster 15.

The train stop Kloster Marienthal is located on the Engers–Au railway and served by line RB90 (Limburg (Lahn) - Diez Ost - Westerburg - Hachenburg - Altenkirchen - Au (Sieg) - Betzdorf (Sieg) - Siegen of DreiLänderBahn, a section of Hessische Landesbahn (HLB) and located on the area of the transport association Verkehrsverbund Rhein-Mosel (VRM), zone no. 912.

The local bus line 288 runs from Au (Sieg) station via Hamm, Marienthal and Hilgenroth to Breitscheidt.

The K51 street connects Marienthal to Hamm (Sieg)

The Marienwanderweg (Marien hiking trail) connects Marienthal to the Marienstatt Abbey, an active monastery of the Cistercians which is located in Streithausen close to Hachenburg.

The closure of the Kloster Marienthal stop, which is located on the ground of Hilgenroth, was discussed several times because it no longer met the safety requirements of the Federal Railway Authority and only carried eight passengers per week.[2] In 2017, a support organisation named Klosterdorf Marienthal (Marienthal Monastery Village), has been foundet, leaders were Uwe Steiniger from Klostergastronomie Marienthal (Marienthal Monastery Gastronomy), Pastor Frank Aumüller and Dietmar Schumacher from the local club of SPD in the municipality of Altenkirchen-Flammersfeld. This support organisation also started an online petition to preserve the train stop and gathered 2,500 votes.

Literature

  • Andachtsbüchlein für Pilger zum Gnadenort Marienthal nebst einer gedrängten Geschichte der Kirche des Klosters u. des Gnadenbildes : Maria, du schmerzhafte Mutter, ... bitt für uns!; mit e. Stahlstich. - Linz a. Rh. : Krumscheid, nicht vor 1853. digitalised publication of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Jakob Wirtz: Fünfhundert Jahre Marienthal bei Hamm an der Sieg. 2nd edition, Werl, 1928.
  • Gabriel Busch (ed.): Hilgenroth/Marienthal. Zwei Wallfahrtsorte, Siegburg, 1982.
  • Daniel Schneider: Die Entwicklung der Konfessionen in der Grafschaft Sayn im Grundriss, in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Kreises Altenkirchen 58 (2015), pp. 74–80.
  • Daniel Schneider: Die Geschichte der Ortsgemeinde Obererbach (Westerwald). Die Ortschaften Hacksen, Niedererbach, Obererbach und Koberstein vom Mittelalter bis zur Gegenwart. Obererbach, 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027494-7 (2 Bände, mit zahlreichen Bezügen zu Marienthal).

References

  1. ↑ Statistisches Landesamt Rheinland-Pfalz – Amtliches Verzeichnis der Gemeinden und Gemeindeteile
  2. ↑ Cite error: The named reference Marienthaler was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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