Mainz

Mainz

Jakobsberg, Mons Speciosus, Mons Sti Jacobi, Schönberg

Founded ca. 1050; Premonstratensian from 1170s to ca. 1208; Benedictine from ca. 1208; suppressed 1802

James

The monastery of St James, Mainz, was founded ca. 1051 as a Benedictine community. For a brief period at the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, it was a Premonstratensian community, first as a priory and then as an abbey. It then once more became a Benedictine house until its suppression in 1802.

Nothing remains from the Premonstratensian period of the abbey.

Abbots

Folbert, 1177-1189
Hezekinus, 1189-1196

Priory; abbey from 1186

Cottineau, II: col. 1798

Hugo, I: 847-850

KSARG: Benediktinerkloster St. Jakob, Mainz

MP, I: 103, III: 536

RPO: Mainz, Jakobsberg

VW, 228

Dionis Wasserburg, "Das Jakobsberger Kloster" (1842). Wikimedia.