Hildegrim of Chalons

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Saint Hildegrim I of Châlons (* in Friesland ; † June 19, 827 ) was after his brother Liudger the second abbot of the Werden monastery , 30th Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne missionary in Halberstadt . In 793 he is mentioned in a document as a deacon, in 796 at the latest he must have been ordained a priest.

Hildegrim was long considered the first bishop of Halberstadt.

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Hildegrim, who, like his brother Liudger, probably studied at the cathedral school in Utrecht and with Alcuin in York , became bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne in 802 . After his brother's death in 809 he became abbot of Werden.

The chapel he built, a rectangular building with a semicircular apse next to the abbey church in Werden , received the patronage of St. Stephen . In the Middle Ages this small chapel was even called "Basilica minor". The Stephanus patronage of Chalons-sur-Marne was transferred from Hildegrim to Osterwieck and subsequently to Halberstadt . Hildegrim took his St. Stephanus Church, founded in Osterwieck, as the starting point for missionary work in this area, which initially included parts of the later diocese of Hildesheim . In the course of this activity he is said to have founded 35 (parish) churches, all of which were consecrated to St. Stephen. However, there is currently no archaeological or documentary evidence of this.

His successor Thiatgrim became the first bishop in Halberstadt .

According to his wish, he was buried with his brother Liudger in the crypt of the Werden abbey church that he had built .

He is especially venerated as a saint in northern France.

literature

  • Heinrich Engel: Ruhr Christians. History and stories of Ludgerus and the Liudgeriden, of imperial abbots and pastors in Werden an der Ruhr. Schmitz, Essen 1997, ISBN 3-932443-04-7 .
  • Franz Schrader: Shape and origin of the medieval parish organization of the city of Halberstadt and the establishment of the Diocese of Halberstadt. In: North Harz Yearbook. 14, 1989, ISSN  1438-5341 , pp. 45-85

Web links

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  • Michael Buhlmann: Hildigrim, brother of St. Liudger (= contributions to the history of becoming. 11). Scientific self-published by Buhlmann, Essen 2012, (presentation on June 12, 2012).
  1. ^ Bernhard Gallistl: Narrated World Heritage. Twelve centuries of Hildesheim. Olms, Hildesheim u. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3-487-15230-1 , p. 19.
predecessor Office successor
Beuve I. Bishop of Châlons-sur-Marne
804–810 		Adelelmus
Liudger Abbot of Werden
809–827 		Gerfried
personal data
SURNAME Hildegrim of Chalons
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hildigrim I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Abbot and Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH around 760
PLACE OF BIRTH Friesland
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 827