Saint-Paul Abbey (Besançon)
The Abbey of Saint-Paul in Burgundy was an initially Burgundian and later a French Benedictine monastery in the historic center of Besançon . It existed from around 630 to 1791.
history
The monastery was founded around 630 by St. Donatus of Besançon , the 26th Archbishop of Besançon and student of Columban of Luxeuil , on what is presumably his own property on today's Rue d'Alsace on the bend of the Doubs River .
Donatus had the monastery built on the remains of a Roman palatium. That is why the abbey was referred to as the palatium in the texts of that time. Nothing is known about the original patronage of the foundation. The archbishop's founder gave the abbey the Colombian rule of the order , which was already practiced in the influential nearby Luxeuil monastery . According to the development in Luxeuil after the death of Columban's successor Eustasius , a relative of Donatus, it can be assumed that, under the influence of the Synod of Mâcon , the Regula Benedicti was soon introduced in the Abbey of Saint-Paul .
Both the Archbishop Donatus and his father Waldelenus , who was the Dux of Transjurania , found their final resting places in the Burgundian abbey.
In 1044, during the church reforms of the 11th century , the Archbishop of Besançon, Hugo I von Salins, converted the abbey into a collegiate monastery and organized the monastery chapter according to the rule of Augustine . With the founding deed , the Augustinian monastery received the patronage of Mary (mother of Jesus) , Paul of Tarsus and St. Antidius.
In 1791 the abbey was requisitioned as national property. It served first as a stable for the army, then as a clothing collection point for the revolutionary city administration.
After the destruction of the bell tower, the transept and the choir in the 19th century, only the Gothic nave of the former monastery remained . The remains of the bell tower can be found in the courtyard of the Besançon Municipal Archives.
Web links
- Attachée au patrimoine, elle lance un appel pour sauver une église de Besançon après l'élan pour Notre-Dame de Paris
- Abbaye Saint-Paul à Besançon (25) Racinescomtoises - Patrimoine et photographies de Franche-Comté
- La Ville de Besançon vend son abbaye du Moyen-Age . L'Est Républicain.
- Besançon, abbatiale Saint-Paul . Care.
literature
- Claude Fohlen (Ed.): Histoire de Besançon. Ed. Cêtre, Besançon 1981, ISBN 978-2-9010-4028-6 .
- Léon Marquiset: L'abbaye Saint-Paul de Besançon 650–1775. Bossane et fils impr., Besançon 1909.
Coordinates: 47 ° 14 ′ 21 ″ N , 6 ° 1 ′ 46 ″ E