Oelenberg Abbey

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Notre-Dame d'Oelenberg Abbey (2006)
View of the interior

The Abbey of Notre-Dame d'Oelenberg (lat. Abbatia BMV de Oelenberg ) is a Trappist - Monastery (= Cistercians of the Strict Observance) in the town of Reiningue near Mulhouse in the French department of Haut-Rhin . It has been a spiritual center in Alsace since the 11th century . From 1825 to 1895 it was also a Trappist convent .

history

In 1046 Heilwig von Dagsburg, Countess of Eghisheim and mother of Pope Leo IX founded. , an Augustinian Canons - Priory . Leo IX consecrated the church in 1049. In 1626 the abbey was taken over by Jesuits from Freiburg im Breisgau and after its abolition came into the possession of the University of Freiburg from 1774 until the French Revolution .

architecture

The originally Romanesque building was badly destroyed during the First World War and rebuilt in 1920.

The Trappist monastery

Trappist monks have lived in the monastery since 1825. In 1862 the monks of the monastery founded the Mariawald Abbey near Heimbach (Eifel) , and in 1925 a subsidiary was founded in Engelszell Abbey near Engelhartszell (Austria).

At the end of 2011, the abbey consisted of ten monks, three novices , two postulants and one oblate .

The Trappist Convent

From 1825 to 1895 the abbey was a double monastery, as the Trappist women who returned to France from Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery in 1825 also settled in Oelenberg. In 1895 they moved to Altbronn Monastery due to lack of space .

Furnishing

The abbey church has Romanesque (12th century), late Gothic (1486) and Baroque (1755) components and is equipped with works from the 12th century ( processional cross ), 14th century ( crucifix ), 15th century (statue of Mary) and 18th century Century (Virgin Mary statue).

In the three chapels of St. Michael, St. Leo and Mont des Oliviers (Mount of Olives) are components of the 12th century and from the year 1486, and a painting and three reliquaries , from which, during the French Revolution dissolved monastery Lützel come .

organ

The organ of the abbey church was built in 1951 by the organ builder Georg Schwenkedel. It replaced an instrument that had been built in 1904 by the organ builders Martin et Joseph Rinckenbach, and which had already been destroyed in a bombing in 1915. The instrument has 22 sounding registers and two transmissions , divided into two manuals and pedal . The keyboards and stops are electric.

I Grand Orgue C-g 3
1. Bourdon 16 ′
2. Montre 8th'
3. Flûte à cheminée 8th'
4th Salicional 8th'
5. Prestant 4 ′
6th Flute 2 ′
7th Fittings IV 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
II Recit expressif C – g 3
8th. Cor de nuit 8th'
9. Gemshorn 8th'
10. Viol douce 8th'
11. Voix céleste 8th'
12. Flute 4 ′
13. Nasard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
14th Duplicate 2 ′
15th Tierce 1 3 ⁄ 5  ′
16. Cymbals III 1'
17th Trumpets 8th'
18th Basson / Hautbois 8th'
Tremolo
Pedale C – f 1
19th Soubasse 16 ′
20th Bourdon (= No. 1) 16 ′
21st Flute 8th'
22nd Bourdon (= No. 2) 8th'
23. Bass 4 ′
24. Bombarde douce 16 ′
  • Coupling : I / I (as super octave coupling), II / I (also as sub and super octave coupling), I / P, II / P (also as super octave coupling)

Abbots of the Trappists

  • Eugène de Laprade , 1795 titular prior, 1808 - June 15, 1816 Dept.
  • Pierre Klausener , November 10, 1832 - June 28, 1850
  • Ephrem van der Meulen , August 1, 1850 - March 1, 1884 (Council Father at Vaticanum I)
  • Andreas Zucktriegel , March 31, 1884 - September 14, 1889 († February 19, 1893)
  • Franziskus Strunk , September 27, 1889 - January 1, 1912
  • Petrus Wacker , January 29, 1912 - November 15, 1949
  • Robert Laverdure, December 15, 1949 - June 22, 1951
  • Bernard Benz, July 17, 1951 - September 12, 1954
  • Paul Offtinger, Sup.ad nutum September 20, 1954 - September 20, 1957
  • François Rubrecht, Sup.ad nutum September 24, 1957 - June 20, 1959, Abbot June 20, 1959 - June 6, 1971
  • Stanislas Nicot, July 2, 1971 - July 27, 1980
  • Eugène Manning , Sup.ad nutum July 30, 1980 - February 14, 1981, Abbot February 14, 1981 - April 6, 1987
  • Alphonse van den Broucke, Sup.ad nutum April 1987 - December 27, 1989
  • Simon Carrère, Sup.ad nutum January 22, 1990 - January 26, 1991, Abbot January 26, 1991 - July 1, 2003
  • Antonio Lépore, Sup.ad nutum July 1, 2003 - June 8, 2004, Abbot June 8, 2004 - August 4, 2012
  • Théophane Lavens, Sup. Ad nutum Sep 29. 2012 - July 3, 2014
  • Dominique-Marie Schoch, Sup.ad nutum July 4, 2014, Abbot since March 31, 2017.

Superiors and Abbesses of the Trappist Sisters

  • 1825–1826: Hélène Van den Broeck
  • 1826–1848: Stanislaus Schey
  • 1848–1854: Joséphine Merklin (* May 12, 1802 in Thann , † May 27, 1854)
  • 1854–1860: Humbeline Clercx (first abbess)
  • 1860–1863: Pelagia Faulhaber
  • 1863–1866: Elisabeth Van De Grootveen
  • 1866–1881: Hieronyma Liétard
  • 1881–1881: Raphael Lichtle
  • 1882–1895: Scholastika Dibling

literature

  • Karl Ruff: The Trappist Abbey Oelenberg and the Reformed Cistercian Order . Freiburg 1898.
  • Anton Hecker: A visit to the Trappists on Oelenberg i. E. Travel reminder. Woerishofen 1904.
  • Friedrich Sacerdos: The Augustinian Provosty Oelenberg in Alsace as Coming (1530–1626) . In: Journal of the Society for the Promotion of History, Antiquity and Folklore from Freiburg, the Breisgau and the surrounding landscapes 32, 1917, pp. 131–162.
  • Friedrich Sacerdos: The Oelenberg provost in Alsace as the residence of the Freiburg Jesuits 1626-1773 . In: Freiburger Diözesan-Archiv 50, 1922, pp. 82–143.
  • Manfred Krebs: The fragments of the necrology of the canon monastery Oelenberg. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. New series , Volume 53, 1940, pp. 241-255.
  • Eugène Kleiber: The three Sundgau priories St. Morand, St. Ulrich and Ölenberg . In: Annuaire de la société d´histoire sundgauvienne 1954, pp. 148–153.
  • Paul Stintzi: History of the Oelenberg Abbey 1046–1954 (= Alsatica Monastica 4). Westmalle 1962.
  • Karl Schadelbauer: The documents of the monastery Ölenberg in Alsace from 1188 to 1565. (= publications from the Innsbruck city archive. II. Series: Innsbruck archive notes on the history of the Austrian foreland . Issue 5). Innsbruck 1966.
  • Raymond Husser: Reiningue. Oelenberg. Deux noms, un destin. Editions Coprur, Strasbourg 1985.

Web links

Commons : Abtei Oelenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Statistiques Moines Monks Monjes 31/12/2011 Downloads | Current Statistics . Website OCSO - Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance (English, French) (.pdf file). Retrieved November 30, 2012.
  2. ↑ More information about the organ
  3. ↑ Laverdure, Robert , in: Biographia Cisterciensis , accessed June 2, 2017.
  4. ↑ Benz, Bernard , in: Biographia Cisterciensis , accessed June 2, 2017.
  5. ^ Carrère, Simon , in: Biographia Cisterciensis , accessed June 2, 2017.
  6. ↑ Erbe und Arbeits , Vol. 93 (2017), p. 124.
  7. ↑ Clercx, Humbeline , in: Biographia Cisterciensis , accessed June 2, 2017.

Coordinates: 47 ° 44 ′ 45.7 ″  N , 7 ° 12 ′ 48.1 ″  E