Disibodenberg Monastery

single vineyard in the municipality of Odernheim in the German wine-growing region of Nahe, which is named after the monastery of the same name. St Disibod (619-700) was an Irish monk. On his wanderings, Disibod came to the Nahe valley to a place that, according to legend, was prefigured in a dream "... where two rivers meet". Disibod found this at the confluence of the Nahe and Glan rivers near Odernheim. After Disibod's death, a church and a monastery-like complex were built on the mountain. After a chequered history, a Benedictine monastery was founded here in 1108. The famous mystic Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) entered the monastery as a young novice in 1112. Cistercians from Otterberg Monastery (ex Eberbach Monastery) took over the monastery in 1259. The building, now only a ruin, was renovated in 1985. The last private owner, Ehrengard Freifrau von Racknitz, transferred the former monastery grounds to the Disibodenberg SCIVIAS Foundation in 1989.

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