Engelthal is a municipality near Nürnberg (

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

) in the Frankenalb (

Frankish Alb The Franconian Jura ( , , or ) is an upland in Franconia, Bavaria, Germany. Located between two rivers, the Danube in the south and the Main in the north, its peaks reach elevations of up to and it has an area of some 7053.8 km2. Emil Meyn ...

). The municipality has a population of approximately 1100 people.

History

The place was named ''Swinnahe'' in former times and mentioned first in 1058/1059 on the occasion of the consecration of a church by bishop Gundekar von Eichstätt. Engelthal was established as a cloister (Dominican nuns) at 1240 from Ulrich von Königstein auf Reicheneck. Mentioned first officially in 1245 and in 1339 given protection from emperor Ludwig as of the ''Nürnberger Rat'' and the city of Nuremberg. In recent years, residents have remodeled and restored sections of the cloister and cloister wall. Engelthal is also notable for Engelthal Abbey, the home of several notable medieval writers and mystics, including

Christina Ebner Christina Ebner (also Christine), (26 March 1277 – 27 December 1356) was a German Dominican nun, writer and mystic. Life Ebner was born in the Imperial City of Nuremberg, the child of the patrician Seyfried Ebner and his wife, Elizabeth Kuhd ...

and Adelheid Langmann.

Cultural references

* Engelthal is mentioned in chapter XXIII of

Henry James Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the ...

's 1875 novel ''

Roderick Hudson ''Roderick Hudson'' is a novel by Henry James. Originally published between January and December 1875 as a serial in ''The Atlantic Monthly'', it is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. Plot summary Row ...

'', ' ..the eggs of Engelthal were almost as fresh and the cream almost as thick as those of the Connecticut Valley.'. * Engelthal is one of the settings in '' The Gargoyle'' by Andrew Davidson, where one of the main characters, Marianne Engel, is raised as a nun.

References

External links

Official website of Engelthal

Engelthal monastery
Nürnberger Land {{NürnbergerLand-geo-stub