Village Above Blumenthal Reachable via the hiking trails J3 / Extratour D

The former estate of Jeanharishof (which already existed in the 17th century) gave the little village its name and was the seed of the village of Blumenthal. In old records, the location was also referred to as “propre silva retro Behlem”. The old Jeanharishof was previously a balliwick of Bourglinster Castle. Around 1747, as the feudal lordship came to an end and the Lords of Linster found themselves in a permanat financial crisis, Baron Johann Philipp vonMetzenhausen, Lord of Linster, was forced to borrow 200 Reichstaler from his vassel Johann Heinrich of Jeanharishof in order to pay his urgent debt to the jewish money lender Levi from the capital. In return, he transferred the inheretance rights to the Jeanharishof to Johann Heinrich upon consideration of some rent and labor. (H.A. Reuland) Prior to 1700, a handful of charcoal burning, handyman and forestry families settled near the estate and called their settlement “Ehrenklause”. Until 1884 there was still a house here with the name “A Klausen”. Around 1700, most of them moved to the part of the newly founded village of Blumenthal belonging to the Hemsthal valley. The chapel of Jeanharishof was built 80 years ago by the married couple Peter Schelland Marguerite Giewer, residents of the Jeanharishofes. The bell was made in 1763 and was commissioned by the 43rd abbess Dominique d’Ivory de Serry of the Marienthal cloister. It is tuned to “A flat” and weights 12 kg. The chapel is still privately owned but is always available to residents of the village.