Liebenau monastery
St. Cyriacus abbey in Neuhausen ("A", in the center) and the Liebenau monastery in Hochheim ("B", on the right) in 1620, drawing in the Worms city archives (probably the only surviving picture)
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 Location within Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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| Order | Dominicans |
| Established | 1299 |
| Disestablished | 1570 |
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| Founder(s) | Jacob and Lieba Engelmann |
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| Location | Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany |
| Coordinates | 49°38′06″N 8°20′52″E / 49.635043°N 8.347808°E |
The Liebenau monastery was a Dominican monastery. It was located outside the city gates of Worms in today's Worms-Hochheim district.
Liebenau was located in the east of Hochheim district, close to the border with the Neuhausen district, near the bridge across the Pfrimm and today's Von-Steuben-Straße. There are streets named Engelmannstraße and Holderbaumstraße in the area, named after the monastery's founders, Johann Engelmann and Lieba Holderbaum.
The monastery Liebenau is closely linked to the nearby St. Cyriacus abbey in Worms-Neuhausen, which was disestablished in 1565. St. Cyriacus was very old and was probably originally a Franconian royal court. In 630, King Dagobert I converted it into a church dedicated to St. Denis. In the 9th century, Bishop Samuel of Worns (841-856), who was also abbot of Lorsch Abbey, acquired the relics of St. Cyriacus, one of the highly revered Fourteen Holy Helpers, in Rome and placed them in the church in Neuhausen, which soon adopted St. Cyriacus as its patron saint and was linked to a collegiate church. Thus, the church at Neuhausen became a pilgrimage destination.
Emperor Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor visited the abbey in 1111 and built a castle in the vicinity. This castle had a polygonal shield wall and was located slightly west of Neuhausen Abbey on a peninsula between the rivers Pfrimm and Mühlbach. The castle was damaged in 1124 and definitively destroyed in 1288, during a conflict between the city and the clergy. The site was acquired by Konrad Holderbaum, a citizen of Worms. Via his son Johann Holderbaum, the site came into the possession his sister Lieba, who had married Jacob Engelmann.
In 1299, Jacob and Lieba Engelmann found a nunnery at this site, on the condition that they would be buried in the nunnery. According to Johann Friedrich Schannat in his Historia episcopatus Wormatiensis of 1734, the name Liebenau is derived from the founder's first name Lieba. Eberwin von Kronenberg (d. 22 April 1308), the Bishop of Worms, laid the foundation stone in 1300 and also oversaw the completion of the building after the founders had died. The monastery owned the parish of Einselthum. Over time, the monastery acquired more territory. By the early 16th century, the monastery held possessions in Osthofen, Pfeddersheim, Alsheim, Einselthum, Westhofen, Gundersheim, Blödesheim, Eich, Hochheim, Leiselheim and Pfiffligheim.
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