page_title: Eberbach Abbey
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Eberbach Abbey / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: The cloister of Kloster Eberbach as seen from the first floor Deutsch: Blick auf den Innenhof sowie den Kreuzgang des Kloster Eberbachs, gesehen aus einem Fenster im Mönchsdormitorium (erstes Obergeschoss). Im Obergeschoss befindet sich der Bibliothekssaal, der durch den ebenfalls zu sehenden Schwedenturm zu erreichen ist.
context_page_description: Eberbach Abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Eltville in the Rheingau, Germany. On account of its Romanesque and early Gothic buildings it is considered one of the most significant architectural heritage sites in Hesse.
  In the winter of 1985/86 some of the interior scenes of The Name of the Rose were filmed here. The abbey is a main venue of the annual Rheingau Musik Festival.
context_section_description: The buildings date from the Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque periods. A list of goods, the Oculus Memoriae, survives from as early as the year 1211, giving information on the possessions and premises of the abbey complex.
  The buildings include:
  The abbey church, a three-aisled Romanesque basilica with transept, containing the tombs of some of the Archbishops of Mainz
  The cloisters, the south side of which is Gothic, the north side partly Gothic and partly Romanesque, and the remainder a 19th-century restoration
  The chapter room, a late Gothic square room with a central pillar, restored with ceiling and wall paintings
  The Fraternei, an early Gothic room with heavy vaulting, used since the Middle Ages as a wine cellar. It is also known as the Cabinetkeller, which is the origin of the use of the term Kabinett as a quality description of German wine.
  The Dormitorium (dormitory), an early Gothic room about 70 metres long containing vaulting and short columns with sculptured capitals, and one of the few such rooms of this size and quality remaining in Europe
  The north wing, refurbished in the 18th century and containing the refectory, with a Baroque stucco ceiling by Daniel Schenk. It replaced the earlier Gothic refectory to the north
  The west wing, accommodating the library, where the abbey museum was set up in 1995. This contains inter alia the oldest surviving Cistercian glass window in Germany (of about 1180), the original capitals from the cloisters, now replaced by modern replicas, various sculptures, portraits of Bernard of Clairvaux and Baroque furnishings
  In a separate building to the west of the monastic quarters, the "converts' building" or "lay-brothers' building", containing the lay-brothers' refectory (45 metres long) and the Laiendormitorium (lay-brothers' dormitory) (at over 80 metres long, the largest surviving Romanesque secular room in Europe), and attached to it a Romanesque wine-cellar and various small domestic buildings from the 17th century
  Outside of the inner monastic precinct to the east, the hospital, service buildings and 18th and 19th century wine cellars
caption: Cloisters
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