Saint-Aubin d'Angers Abbey

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Saint-Aubin d'Angers Abbey was a monastery in Angers , France that was founded in the 6th or 7th century and lasted until the French Revolution .

history

Saint-Aubin Abbey evolved from a burial church ( memoria ) built to house the sarcophagus of Aubin , Bishop of Angers 529-550. This was housed in a narrow chamber (cellula angusta) , where he waited for the construction of the basilica, which happened between 550 and 576. The new basilica was soon given the name Saint-Aubin, which Gregory of Tours reports in his Libri historiarum X (1. VI, 16).

A community of monks developed at the church in the 6th century or at the beginning of the 7th century. In 616, Bertrand (also Bertichramnus) , Bishop of Le Mans , mentioned monastic activities and an abbot. In the 9th or 10th century, the author of the first Vita S. Magnobodi (also Mainboeuf ) mentions an abbot Niulphus or Aiulphus, who called Magnobodus Bishop followed and was also abbot of Saint-Aubin. In 1997 excavations showed that around this time the main courtyard of the monastery was being used as a cemetery. Saint-Aubin definitely got its abbey status with the return of the monks after the Norman invasions in 966.

The abbey church was demolished in 1811 to create Place Michel-Debré, and the monastery was integrated into the new prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department . The fortified bell tower Saint-Aubin in the rue des Lices, which stood a little apart and was the personal property of the respective abbot, was preserved.

The Saint-Aubin tower in Angers

Saint-Aubin tower

The bell tower of the Saint-Aubin Abbey dates back to the 12th century, making it more recent than the neighboring monastery. With a height of 54 meters, it dominates the center of Angers. In the Middle Ages it served as a tower for the night watch. It is a small fortress with loopholes and a well. In 1862 it was classified as a Monument historique .

literature

  • Bertrand de Broussillon (ed.): Cartulaire du Saint-Aubin , Paris, 1903, part 1 , part 2 , part 3 (Latin)
  • François Comte et Jean Siraudeau: Documents d'évaluation du patrimoine archéologique des villes de France. Angers, Center National d'Archéologie Urbaine, Tours 1990.
  • François Comte: Le territoire d'Angers du dixième au treizième siècle: naissance des bourgs et faubourgs monastiques et canoniaux. In: Anjou, Medieval Art, Architecture and Archeology , Conference Transactions XXVI, The British Archaeological Association, Leeds 2003.

Web links

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Libri historiarum X (I. VI, 16) Online (Latin)
  2. ↑ Scriptorum ecclesiasticorum qui in VII saeculi prima parte floruerunt opera omnia . In: Jacques Paul Migne (Ed.): Patrologiae cursus completus (=  2 ). tape 80 , no. 1 . Paris 1850, Sanctus Bertichramnus, p. 401 ( online - venerabile Bobeno abbate de basilica sancti Albini , Latin).
  3. ^ Barthélemy Hauréau (ed.): Gallia christiana in provincias ecclesiasticas distributa . tape 14 . Firmin Didot fratres, filios sociosque, Paris 1856, p. 550 + 605 (Latin, online ).
  4. ↑ Acta sanctorum octobris . In: Societas Jesu (ed.): Acta sanctorum (=  10 ). tape 55 , no. 7 . Bruxelles 1845, p. 947 (Latin, online ).
  5. ↑ Bertrand de Broussillon (ed.): Cartulaire du Saint-Aubin , Paris, 1903, No. 18 p. 32ff.
  6. ↑ Entry no. PA00108861 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 47 ° 28 ′ 7 ″  N , 0 ° 33 ′ 12 ″  W.