Marienthal

Title

Marienthal

Also Known As

Bedelentroth, Bethelintrod, Bethlenrode, Meriendale, Sante Mergendal, Sante Mergenthal, Sent Mariendayl, Vallis S. Mariae

Dates

Founded 1139/40; dissolved aft. 1438

Dedication

Mary

Affiliation

Münsterdreisen

Medieval Diocese

Mainz

Circary

Wadgassen

History

This community of Premonstratensian women was founded ca. 1130/40 at Bethlentrode, and ca. 1146 moved to Marienthal. The sisters may have operated a scriptorium. Marienthal is last mentioned as a monastic community in 1438.

From 1557, the monastic church was used as a Protestant parish church. It was demolished and rebuilt in the 1840s.

Heads of Community

Magistrae

Gudela, fl. 1312

Status

Women's community

Archival Sources

Speyer, Landesarchiv Speyer

Bestand F 7, no. 37 (1215)

Bestand F 7, no. 338 (1312)

Bestand F 7, no. 428 (1330)

Bibliography

Hoffmann, Alfons. Kloster Marienthal am Donnersberg. Landau/Pfalz: Druckerei Schmitt, 1956.

Schnabel, Berthold, Martin Wenz, and Matthias Untermann. “Marienthal, St. Maria: Prämonstratenserinnenstift St. Mariental: Stadtteil Marienthal, Stadt und Verbandsgemeinde Rockenhausen, Donnersbergkreis.” In Pfälzisches Klosterlexikon : Handbuch der pfälzischen Klöster, Stifte und Kommenden, edited by Jürgen Keddigkeit, Matthias Untermann, Hans Ammerich, Pia Heberer, and Charlotte Lagemann, 3:39–59. Beiträge zur pfälzischen Geschichte 26. Kaiserslautern: Institut für pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde, 2015.

Image Credit

View of the former monastic church of Marienthal, ca. 1830. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Wadgassen

Citation

“Marienthal,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/584.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Münsterdreisen