Altkirch Monastery

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The Altkirch Monastery was a Benedictine monastery in Altkirch in Alsace (today the Haut-Rhin department ).

history

The monastery in Altkirch goes back to a foundation of the Counts von Pfirt , it was originally an "old church" which was consecrated to St. Christoph . In 1106 St. Morandus sent here. The local Count Friedrich I. von Pfirt - great-great-nephew of St. Leo IX. - enlarged that old church, founded a Benedictine monastery there and asked St. Hugo of Cluny for a number of religious. The deed of donation for the new monastery was signed by Count Friedrich I. von Pfirt on July 3, 1105 and in the first weeks of 1106 it was confirmed by Pope Paschal II.

In 1444 Armagnaks looted the Morandus Church in Altkirch and broke open the burial site. The bones were scattered, but picked up again and buried.

In 1620 Emperor Ferdinand donated the Morandus Monastery in Altkirch to the Jesuits , who looked after it until the order was abolished in 1773. The Benedictines of Cluny took over it again for a short time, after the French Revolution the pilgrimage site came into the care of the diocese of Strasbourg . The Sisters of Mercy founded a hospital in the former monastery, and in 1886 a new pilgrimage church was built over the Morandus grave . Under Bishop Adolf Fritzen , the Altkirch relics were examined, sorted and given new documents in 1892.

On June 3rd and the following Sunday, Altkirch also celebrates the traditional day of pilgrimage.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Hidber (edit.), In: Schweizerisches Urkundenregister, Volume 1 , Allgemeine Geschichtforschende Gesellschaft der Schweiz (Ed.), 1864, p. 429