Senones Abbey
The Senones Monastery , an abbey in Rabodeautal in what is now Senones in Lorraine , was founded in 661 by St. Gondelbert , the former Archbishop of Sens . The documents are incomplete. The Benedictine monk Richer von Senones wrote the story until 1263. However, his work is controversial.
Around two hundred monks are said to have lived in the abbey in the 9th century. The monastery became a fiefdom of the bishops of Metz, especially Angilram tried to get connected. The power of the order lay with the diocese of Toul .
In 1103 Kunegunde, the widow of Matfried von Tincry, and her sons donated goods to the priory Tures of the abbey. Her older son Gobert became the bailiff of Senones in 1105.
From 1111 to 1126 Hermann II von Salm was Vogt. His son Heinrich I continued his work.
The abbot Augustin Calmet became known through the biblical commentary La Saint Bible en Latin et en françois, avec une commentaire littéral et critique .
Prince Konstantin Alexander Joseph zu Salm-Salm decreed the secularization of Senones Abbey on February 24, 1790 , against which it protested in Chapter on March 1 and lodged an appeal with the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar. Nevertheless, the monastery was dissolved in 1793.
The bell tower is high medieval, the other buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1983 the abbey was classified as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture .
Web links
- Johann Friedrich: Church History of Germany , Volume 2, 1869, p. 270
- Michael Embach: The writings of Hildegard von Bingen. Studies on their transmission , 2010, p. 203
Coordinates: 48 ° 23 ′ 37 ″ N , 6 ° 58 ′ 50 ″ E