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The wine village Marienthal is the westernmost district of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler and belongs to the district of Walporzheim. It is located on the left side of the River Ahr between Walporzheim and Dernau, surrounded by steeply rising vineyards. Marienthal is a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Monasteries in Marienthal
A highlight of this district is the ruin of a former Augustinian convent, which, however, belongs to the municipality of Dernau.
The foundation of the monastery around 1137 is considered the oldest in the Ahr Valley. Built by Abbot Borne von Klosterrath, the monastery walls housed a convent with noble choir and bourgeois lay sisters. In 1632, Swedish troops plundered the monastery and destroyed the bakery. in 1646, French troops burned it down. A new building erected in 1699 completely overlapped the medieval complex, around the middle of the 18th century the Rococo pavilion, which still exists today, was built. In the course of secularization, the monastery was abolished in 1811 and the buildings were sold.
