Petersberg

Title

Petersberg

Dates

Founded 12th c.; dissolved 1566

Dedication

Mary; Peter; John the Evangelist

Affiliation

Arnstein

Medieval Diocese

Mainz

Circary

Wadgassen

History

Petersberg was founded in the 12th century. Owing to economic difficulties, in 1566 the priory was dissolved and the site was sold to the town of Odernheim.

The church was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War, and today only ruins remain. The site has been excavated twice, in 1877 and again in 1947.

Heads of Community

Priors

Heinrich, fl. ?
Johannes von Siegen, fl. ?

Status

Priory

Archival Sources

Darmstadt, Hessisches Staatsarchiv

E 5 B, 1489-1490 (16th c.)

Bibliography

Behn, Friederich. “Ausgrabungen auf dem Petersberg.” Jahrbuch für das Bistum Mainz 3 (1948): 334–36.

Gredy, Heinrich. “Die Prämonstratenser Wüstungen Kloster Gummersheim und Propstei Petersberg.” In Geschichte der ehemaligen freien Reichsstadt Odernheim, 290–339. Mainz, 1883.

Keddigkeit, Jürgen, Julia Misamer, and Matthias Untermann. “Petersberg, St. Peter: aufgegebene Klostergründung, später Propstei der Prämonstratenserabtei Arnstein: Gemeinde Gau-Odernheim, Verbandsgemeinde Alzey-Land, Landkreis Alzey-Worms.” In Pfälzisches Klosterlexikon, 3:605–19. Kaiserslautern: Institut für Pfälzische Geschichte und Volkskunde, 2015.

Image Credit

Church ruins, 2022. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Wadgassen

Citation

“Petersberg,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/730.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Arnstein