Kloster Wolf, Monastery ruins in Traben-Trarbach, Germany

Kloster Wolf was a house of the Brethren of the Common Life from 1478 to 1560, on the Göckelsberg at 230 m southwest of Wolf, now part of Traben-Trarbach. Little survives: the ruin of the 12th-century Romanesque west tower of the Liebfrauenkirche and parts of its three-aisled nave and choir, mainly 15th-century. Recent studies point to a Roman predecessor building.

A Liebfrauenkirche existed here by 1255, and in the early 15th century a college of altarists formed. In June 1478 the counts of Pfalz-Simmern and Baden called Brothers of the Common Life from Butzbach, and twenty years later the cornerstone of a larger complex was laid. The Reformation in the Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim led to the monastery's dissolution in 1560, its income going to county schools and churches.

The brothers were nicknamed "Kugelherren" (ball lords) after the hooded cap, the Gugel, they wore. They also ran a Latin school in Trier, closed in 1569, and built a chapel in Wolf in 1491; on its cellar the Protestant parish church was raised in 1685.

The ruins are accessible from outside, though the site's terrain can be uneven and conditions depend on weather. Visitors should wear sturdy footwear and be cautious near the older stone structures.

The brothers were nicknamed "Kugelherren" (ball lords) after their head covering, the gugel. They also ran a Latin school in Trier, dissolved in 1569, and built a chapel in Wolf in 1491; its cellar carried the Protestant parish church erected in 1685.