Meerholz

Meerholz

Meiroldis, Merolcz, Meroz, Mioldos, Mirhuld, Mirolda, Miroldensis, Miroldes, Miroldissen, Miroldos, Mirolz, Myeroldes

Founded by 1173; dissolved 1564

Mary

Meerholz was founded by 1173 by sisters previously at Marthinstal. In 1295, the number of sisters was limited to 40. In the later Middle Ages, Meerholz suffered increasing economic difficulties.

At the Reformation, the monastic complex was taken over by the Count of Isenburg-Büdingen, who turned it into a private residence. The former monastic church is now a Protestant parish church.

Magistrae

Benigna, fl. 1173
Isengard, fl. 1247
Guda, fl. 1308
Greda, fl. 1343-45
Jutta, fl. 1357
Adelheid von Rückingen, fl. 1349
Adelheid von Mosbach, fl. 1360s
Schelter von Bleichenbach, fl. 1383
Metze von Weiler, fl. 1380s-1390s
Anna Nebenzahl, fl. 1480
Margarethe Faulhaber, fl. 1506

Priors

Goswin, fl. 1217
Friedrich Ensheimer, fl. 1384
Hermann von Lauter, fl. 1485

Women's community

Darmstadt, Hessisches Staatsarchiv

X 2, 358 (1372); X 2, 385 (1247); X 2, 391 (1361); X 2, 401 (1418)

X 4, 19 (1173); X 4, 28 (1207); X 4, 60 (1239); X 4, 62 - X 4, 63 (1240); X 4, 65 - X 4, 66 (1247); X 4, 80 - X 4, 81 (1258); X 4, 91 - X 4, 93 (1262)

X 4, 108 - X 4, 109 (1267); X 4, 143 (1276); X 4, 146 (1276); X 4, 194 (1288)

X 4, 218 (1293); X 4, 221 (1293); X 4, 229 (1294); X 4, 254 (1302); X 4, 287 - X 4, 288 (1312)

X 4, 324 (1318); X 4, 350 (1323); X 4, 381 (1328)

X 4, 404 (1331); X 4, 434 (1334); X 4, 447 (1337); X 4, 452 (1338); X 4, 498 (1343)

X 4, 500 - X 4, 501 (1344); X 4, 503 (1344); X 4, 518 (1345); X 4, 534 (1347); X 4, 562 - X 4, 563 (1349); X 4, 571 (1350); X 4, 575 (1351)

X 4, 600 (1354); X 4, 624 (1356); X 4, 630 - X 4, 631 (1357); X 4, 636 (1357); X 4, 638 (1357); X 4, 644 (1357); X 4, 659 (1359); X 4, 682 (1360); X 4, 684 (1361)

X 4, 740 - X 4, 742 (1364-65); X 4, 752 (1366); X 4, 771 - X 4, 772 (1367); X 4, 778 (1368); X 4, 789 (1369); X 4, 799 (1370)

X 4, 809 (1372); X 4, 820 (1372); X 4, 826 (1373); X 4, 833 (1375); X 4, 837 (1375); X 4, 840 (1376); X 4, 892 (1383); X 4, 894 (1384); X 4, 897 (1384)

X 4, 903 (1385); X 4, 936 - X 4, 938 (1389-90); X 4, 955 (1391); X 4, 965 (1391); X 4, 986 (1394); X 4, 998 (1395)

X 4, 1001 - X 4, 1002 (1396); X 4, 1025 (1398); X 4, 1028 (1398); X 4, 1048 (1399); X 4, 1068 (1401); X 4, 1092 (1403)

X 4, 1121 (1405); X 4, 1148 (1407); X 4, 1155 (1408); X 4, 1186 (1411); X 4, 1196 - X 4, 1197 (1412)

X 4, 1257 (1418)

X 4, 1405 - X 4, 1406 (1426); X 4, 1423 (1428)

X 4, 1768 - X 4, 1769 (1444); X 4, 1771 (1444)

X 4, 1823 (1446); X 4, 1834 (1446); X 4, 1897 (1448)

X 4, 2389 (1460)

X 4, 2734 (1465)

X 4, 2964 (1471)

X 4, 3200 (1478); X 4, 3205 (1478); X 4, 3229 (1479); X 4, 3251 (1480); X 4, 3270 (1480); X 4, 3283 (1480); X 4, 3294 (1481)

X 4, 3416 (1485); X 4, 3497 (1486)

X 4, 3556 - X 4, 3557 (1488)

X 4, 3665 (1491); X 4, 3669 (1491); X 4, 3672 (1492); X 4, 3685 (1492)

X 4, 3727 (1493); X 4, 3789 (1495); X 4, 3791 (1495)

X 4, 3859 - X 4, 3860 (1497-1498); X 4, 3892 (1499)

X 4, 3926 (1500)

X 4, 4020 (1503); X 4, 4042 (1503)

X 4, 4116 (1506); X 4, 4128 (1506)

X 4, 4223 (1509); X 4, 4226 (1509)

X 4, 4349 (1512)

Frankfurt, Institut für Stadtgeschichte Frankfurt am Main

S1-1004-01, 1190 (1308)

S1-1004-01, 1191 (1308)

Laubach, Graf zu Solms-Laubach'sches Archiv

Laubacher Urkunden Or. VIII/Nachtr. 32 (1247)

Laubacher Urkunden Or. VIII/Nachtr. 39 (1361)

Laubacher Urkunden Or. XIII/Nachtr. 6 (1372)

Marburg, Hessisches Staatsarchiv

Urk. 69, 439 (1241)

Urk. 69, 440 (1250)

Urk. 69, 441 (1251)

Urk. 100, 7189 (1241; later copy)

Wiesbaden, Hessisches Hauptstaatsarchiv

35, U 5 (1240)

35, U 12 (1252)

82, 44/210 (1350)

82, 44/217 (1353)

Cottineau, II: col. 1806

KSARG: Prämonstratenserinnenstift Meerholz

MP, I: 109; III: 539

RPO: Meerholz in Gelnhausen (Main-Kinzig-Kreis)

VW, 163

Drawing of Meerholz, 1565. Wikimedia.