Tholey

Tholey is a region in the locale of Sankt Wendel, in Saarland, Germany. It is arranged roughly 10 kilometers west of Sankt Wendel, and 30 kilometers north of Saarbrucken. Tholey is situated on the edge of the Schaumberg, the most noteworthy mountain in Saarland and the Hunsruck run. The name has been gotten from the Celtic, signifying "extraordinary", an induction found additionally for the sake of the neighboring Dollberg slope and in Lorelei initially Dorley, identified with the German toll or doll. "Ley" is a Celtic and Germanic word signifying "bluffs".

Tholey is in this way "the town on the extraordinary precipices". As indicated by legend, around 610 Saint Wendelin of Trier turned into the organizer and first abbot of the Benedictine monastery of Tholey. In 1794 the religious community was looted and consumed by the French and the assemblage was broken down. In 1949 a branch of Benedictine cloister of Beuronese Congregation returned and started reclamation.