Thierry, sorry, the place with the convent in the Rheingau, west of Wiesbaden, is not called Eberstadt, it is Kloster EBERBACH. Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thierry Dietrich" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Lorsch, near Eberstadt, Bensheim, et al > Hi Don. > > There are two different Eberstadt, one being in the region called > Rheingau, west of the capital of Hessen, Wiesbaden (former capital of the > duchy of Nassau, whereof the Rheingau was a part). The other Eberstadt is > close to Darmstadt, and today a part of Darmstadt indeed. The Eberstadt > close to Wiesbaden (in the Rheingau) is very popular for its very old > convent which was very rich in the later middle-ages. This convent, > however, is not to be confused with the convent of Lorsch, which saw its > florison in the early middleages during the period of the Carolingiens > from about 800 until about 1000. Then it decayed and was finally taken > over by the Archbishop of Mainz around 1236. > > Regards, > > Thierry >

Mea culpa, you're right. I was confused by the "convent".  ;-) I never heard of any convent in Eberstadt. Do you have information on this? Regards, Thierry   Dr. Thierry P. Dietrich D-61250 Usingen ________________________________ Von: Carl Becker <[email protected]> An: [email protected] Gesendet: Freitag, den 27. Februar 2009, 09:23:05 Uhr Betreff: Re: [HESSE] Lorsch, near Eberstadt, Bensheim, et al Thierry, sorry, the place with the convent in the Rheingau, west of Wiesbaden, is not called Eberstadt, it is Kloster EBERBACH. Carl ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thierry Dietrich" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [HESSE] Lorsch, near Eberstadt, Bensheim, et al > Hi Don. > > There are two different Eberstadt, one being in the region called > Rheingau, west of the capital of Hessen, Wiesbaden (former capital of the > duchy of Nassau, whereof the Rheingau was a part). The other Eberstadt is > close to Darmstadt, and today a part of Darmstadt indeed. The Eberstadt > close to Wiesbaden (in the Rheingau) is very popular for its very old > convent which was very rich in the later middle-ages. This convent, > however, is not to be confused with the convent of Lorsch, which saw its > florison in the early middleages during the period of the Carolingiens > from about 800 until about 1000. Then it decayed and was finally taken > over by the Archbishop of Mainz around 1236. > > Regards, > > Thierry > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message