Zisterzienserinnenabbey St. Jöris

The convent of St. Jöris was founded in 1274 by Winrich and Jutta von Kinzweiler. It was built on a cleared area in the Propsteier Forest and named after Saint George. No structural remains from the 13th century are preserved today. In the 14th century, the convent housed relics, including the head relic of Saint Regina and a triumphal cross, which is artistically classified among the Rhenish “Cruzifixi dolorosi.” In the 18th century, the Abbot of Clairvaux took over supervision of the convent and, in 1759, commissioned the Abbot of Altenberg to renovate it. The current complex resulted from new constructions in the 15th and 17th/18th centuries. The convent church, a single-nave quarry stone building, dates from the 15th century, as do the lower two tower floors; the upper floor is of more recent date. After the secularization by Napoleon I in 1802, the convent was dissolved.