Sankt Katharinen, Bad Kreuznach
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Location of Sankt Katharinen within Bad Kreuznach district
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| Coordinates: 49°52′04″N 7°46′13″E / 49.86778°N 7.77028°ECoordinates: 49°52′04″N 7°46′13″E / 49.86778°N 7.77028°E | ||
| Country | Germany | |
| State | Rhineland-Palatinate | |
| District | Bad Kreuznach | |
| Municipal assoc. | Rüdesheim | |
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| • Mayor | Manuel Schneider | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 1.70 km2 (0.66 sq mi) | |
| Elevation | 217 m (712 ft) | |
| Population (2015-12-31) | ||
| • Total | 375 | |
| • Density | 220/km2 (570/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) | |
| Postal codes | 55595 | |
| Dialling codes | 06706 | |
| Vehicle registration | KH | |
Sankt Katharinen (official spelling until 25 November 1936: Sankt Catharinen) is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Rüdesheim, whose seat is in the municipality of Rüdesheim an der Nahe.
Sankt Katharinen lies in the Naheland at the southern edge of the Gauchswald (forest) and therefore the Hunsrück. Sankt Katharinen sits at an elevation of 217 m above sea level and its municipal area measures 1.70 km².
Clockwise from the north, Sankt Katharinen’s neighbours are the municipalities of Sommerloch, Roxheim, Mandel and Braunweiler, all of which likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district.
The village of Sankt Katharinen goes back to the Cistercian monastery of the same name that stood here from the early 13th century until 1574. This monastery was home to Cistercian nuns. In the early 13th century, it was founded by the nuns from Kumbd Abbey (Kloster Kumbd in German; the village there is still called Klosterkumbd), and in 1219, Archbishop of Mainz Siegfried II acknowledged the settlement. In 1574, however, the Electorate of the Palatinate put an end to its days as a monastic institution. Oversight was exercised by the Abbot of Eberbach Abbey in the Rheingau. Sankt Katharinen was among Eberbach’s incorporated monasteries. The founding story translated into German by Johann Christian von Stramberg and Heinrich Pröhle, farmer Adalbert’s epic poem, goes back to Johannes Trithemius’s Sponheim Chronicle, which was in Latin. Nothing now remains of the monastery, but the village that sprang up with it is still there.
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