It is first recorded in 1153 and was probably founded by the counts of Diez. A second church is recorded in 1221, dedicated to John the Baptist.[1] In 1466 Abbess Elisabeth Beyer von Boppard, who came from Marienberg Abbey (near Boppard), introduced the statutes of the Bursfelde Congregation.[2] It had extensive endowments in its heyday, but in 1564 it was abolished. It was recorded in 1643 that it had fallen into ruin.[1]
During the construction of the Schloss Oranienstein's main wing between 1672 and 1681, stones were re-used from the chapel and the nunnery ruins. During the 1704-09 rebuild of the Schloss, the last visible ruins of the monastic buildings disappeared.[3]
↑ 1,01,1Georg Dehio: Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler – Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland. Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 1984, Шаблон:ISBN, p. 211
↑Otto Volk: "Boppard im Mittelalter". In: Heinz E. Mißling (ed.): Boppard. Geschichte einer Stadt am Mittelrhein. Erster Band. Von der Frühzeit bis zum Ende der kurfürstlichen Herrschaft. Dausner Verlag, Boppard 1997, Шаблон:ISBN, pp. 338–348
