View of Kloster Bornhofen

View of Kloster Bornhofen

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View of Kloster Bornhofen

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Location: Boppard, Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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July 1, 2023

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Bornhofen Monastery is a Franciscan monastery with a pilgrimage church in Kamp-Bornhofen (Bornhofen district) on the Rhine in the diocese of Limburg. It lies below the steep slate rock with the enemy brothers Castle Sterrenberg and Castle Liebenstein on the right bank of the Rhine about 20 km south of Koblenz and is one of the oldest and most important pilgrimage sites in the Middle Rhine. Since 2002, the Bornhofen Monastery has been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley it is a protected cultural asset under the Hague Convention.

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September 9, 2024

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Very nice view of the Bornhofen Monastery

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May 18, 2026

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HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMAGE CHURCH
Around the year 1400, a knight named Johannes Brömser von Rüdesheim lived. He had inherited the Sterrenberg Castle above Bornhofen. By now he had built two churches: the parish church of Rüdesheim and the pilgrimage church “Noth Gottes” near Rüdesheim. Now he also began in Bornhofen, at the foot of his newly acquired castle, to build a church by extending the already existing church. He died in 1416. The construction of the church was continued after his death until its completion (1435). Thus the present-day pilgrimage church came into being.

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