DEUTSCHLAND	GERMANY
Bundesland: Rheinland-Pfalz	Rhineland-Palatinate
Landkreis: Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis

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Ravengiersburg is situated at an elevation of 340 m in the Simmerbach valley, about 7 km southwest of Simmern / Hunsrück. The small municipality has a population of 329 (2025) and is part of the Verbandsgemeinde (collective municipality) Simmern-Rheinböllen.

Ravengiersburg was first mentioned in a document dating from 974. The name comes from a count named Rabangar who in this time had founded a castle on the steep crags overlooking the valley. The Augustinian Canons' monastery was founded in 1074. In the document dealing with land donations to the monastery, the name Hunsruche (Hunsrück) is mentioned for the first time. In 1410, the monastery and the village passed to the newly created Duchy of Palatinate-Simmern. The monastery grew up to become the greatest landowner between the Mosel and the Nahe rivers. In 1564, however, when the Reformation was introduced into the duchy, the monastery was dissolved; several attempts to revive it all failed. The monastery was finally burnt down by Swedish troops in 1631 during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648). In 1673, the Electorate of Trier became the landholder. Beginning in 1794, Ravengiersburg lay under French rule. In 1814 it was assigned to the Kingdom of Prussia at the Congress of Vienna. Since 1946, it has been part of the then newly founded German state of Rhineland-Palatinate.

The bottom left picture on glass no. 4993 [left] shows a view of the monastery church Sankt Christophorus. The mighty western front with its two 40-metre-high Romanesque towers dates from the late 12th or early 13th century. The old nave was destroyed by a fire in 1440 and was rebuilt in the Gothic style presumably in 1497. After the destructions during the Thirty Years' War, the nave was reconstructed in 1718–1722.

The other two pictures on the glass shows views of Simmern / Hunsrück (see there).
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravengiersburg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravengiersburg; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kloster_Ravengiersburg]