Notre Dame Abbey (Soissons)
Notre Dame is the ruin of a Benedictine convent in the French city of Soissons ( Aisne department ).
history
The Abbey of Notre Dame was founded under the Merovingians between 659 and 666 and later became a Carolingian imperial abbey. Gisela, the sister of Charlemagne , was abbess here and his daughter Rotrude was a nun. An important later abbess was Katharina von Bourbon, the aunt Henry IV. Under Emperor Ludwig the Pious , the Benedictine monastery of Notre Dame became Soisson's mother monastery of the Imperial Abbey of Herford , while the Benedictine abbey of Corbie became the mother of the Imperial Abbey of Corvey .
The once extensive abbey grounds comprised three sacred buildings, the Notre Dame abbey church and the churches of St. Pierre and St. Genevieve. The abbey was also famous for its collection of relics, including the “Shoe of Mary”. During the French Revolution , the abbey was closed and demolished.
The former abbey grounds of Notre Dame stretches in today's Soissons from the square by the cathedral, the post office and the Palace of Justice to the banks of the Aisne. Only a part of the northern transept of the abbey church with two ornamented Romanesque windows and the two western yokes of the nave of St. Pierre, which today serve as a memorial, have survived of the sacred buildings.
swell
- Office de Tourisme: Ville de Soissons
- Kroker, Martin, Kaiser: Kings and pious women. The Reichsstift Herford in the Ottonian, Salian and Staufer times. In: Olaf Schirmeister (ed.): Pious women and religious men. Monasteries and monasteries in St. Herford. Bielefeld 2000, pp. 77-126.
literature
- Honoré Fisquet : La France Pontificale (Gallia Christiana) . Volume 2, Soissons et Laon.
- Alexandre Eusèbe Poquet: Notre-Dame de Soissons, son histoire, ses églises, ses tombeaux, ses abbesses, ses reliques . 1855.
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Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 51.5 " N , 3 ° 19 ′ 42.3" E