Jussamoutier
Jussamoutier Abbey in Burgundy was a women's convent in the historic center of Besançon and existed from its founding around 636 to its dissolution in 1089 .
history
The monastery was founded around 636 by the mother of St. Donatus of Besançon , Aelia Flavia in memory of her late husband Waldelenus , the Dux of Transjurania , and received the patronage of St. Mary .
The abbey was built on its own property in today's Rue Charles Nodier on the bend of the Doubs River at the southwestern foot of the Citadel of Besançon and used the site of the ancient Roman necropolis , such as archaeological finds of columns, tile fragments and coins from the Evidence of the time of Emperor Mark Aurel .
At the request of his mother, Donatus wrote a monastery rule for this monastery foundation in which he combined elements from the orders of Benedict of Nursia , Columban and Caesarius of Arles . This Regula Donati is the oldest surviving evidence of the Benedictine rule and has been preserved for posterity in text form in Benedict von Aniane's Codex Regularum .
Aelia Flavia appointed her daughter Sirudis to be the first abbess to lead the newly founded Jussamoutier Abbey .
Under the rule of the Carolingians , the Jussamoutier monastery achieved the status of imperial immediacy - the Meerssen Treaty expressly names the abbey as the royal monastery of Lothar II.
The 11th century Vita sancti Migetius on the life of the eponymous Archbishop of Besancon, who lived around the year 670, attributes the building of a baptistery near the church of Jussamoutier, which then served as the parish church in the following centuries .
As early as the 10th century, under the power disputes within the Franconian successor empires, the gradual decline of the women's monastery began and in the second half of the 11th century the abbey was completely abandoned and abandoned.
In 1089 the nunnery Jussamoutier was officially dissolved and entrusted as a Benedictine monastery for men to the Abbey of Saint-Pierre von Baume-les-Messieurs .
After the main church was demolished in 1804, nothing remains of the former monastery.
literature
- Gérard Moyse, 'Les origines du monachisme dans le diocèse de Besançon (Ve-Xe siècles)', in: Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 131 (1973), pp. 21-104.
- Yves Jeannin: "Les nécropoles et les églises de Besançon (Doubs)" in Collectif, Éclats d'histoire. 25000 ans d'héritage, 10 ans d'archéologie en Franche-Comté, Besançon, éd. Cêtre, 1995. p. 364
- Bernard de Vregille: Histoire de Besançon, Volume 1: Des origines à la fin du XVIe siècle. Paris, Claude Foal 1964.
Coordinates: 47 ° 13 ′ 51 ″ N , 6 ° 1 ′ 40 ″ E