Baumgarten Monastery

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Baumgarten Cistercian Abbey
Grave slab from the former monastery
Grave slab from the former monastery
location FranceFrance France
Region Alsace
Department Bas-Rhin
Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '51 "  N , 7 ° 24' 12"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 21 '51 "  N , 7 ° 24' 12"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		283
founding year 1148
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1525
Mother monastery Neubourg monastery
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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Monastery Baumgarten (Bongart; Pomarium) is a former Cistercian abbey and today Trappist - abbey in Alsace in France , about one kilometer south of the town of Bernardvillé (Bernhard Weiler) in the Bas-Rhin (Lower Rhine), about 15 kilometers north of the city of Sélestat (Sélestat) , on the right bank of the Schernetz .

history

The monastery was founded in 1125 by the Strasbourg bishop Cuno von Michelbach and settled by Beaupré in Lorraine in 1148 , but subordinated to the Neubourg monastery , which is derived from the primary abbey of Morimond via the Bellevaux and Lucelle (Lützel) monasteries . The monastery church was consecrated in 1153. The monastery never gained greater importance. Abbot Nicolaus Salicetus (Latinized from Weydenbosch) held office from 1482 to before 1490 and wrote an Antidotarius animae cum vita et passione Sanctae Birgittae (antidote of the soul with the life and suffering of St. Birgitta), which was printed in Strasbourg in 1489. In 1515 Baumgarten was reoccupied by the Lützel Monastery , but it was destroyed in the Peasant Wars in 1525 and not reoccupied. After various uses, Trappist women moved in from the Altbronn monastery in Ergersheim in Alsace at the end of 2009 .

Buildings and plant

The Chapel of the Holy Helpers

Remains of the monastery buildings are preserved, including a vaulted two-aisled hall, probably the former refectory, with four columns and several capitals. A capital from around 1200 has also been preserved in the kitchen. The facility, which was used as a cattle stables, was converted into a (no longer existing) restaurant around 1970. The Chapel of the Holy Helpers, first mentioned in 1153, has been preserved (possibly relocated).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Salicetus, Nicolaus , in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography), version dated December 23, 2015, online . Volker Honemann: Salicetus (Wydenbosch, Weidenbusch, etc.), Nicolaus OCist. In: Author's Lexicon. Volume VIII, Col. 511-515. Antidotarius animae , online at ULB Darmstadt

literature

  • Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 10.
  • Walter Hotz : Handbook of the art monuments in Alsace and Lorraine. 3rd, improved and enlarged edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1976, ISBN 3-422-00345-2 , p. 15.
  • Ambrosius Schneider: Lexical overview of the male monasteries of the Cistercians in the German language and cultural area. In: Ambrosius Schneider, Adam Wienand, Wolfgang Bickel, Ernst Coester (eds.): The Cistercienser. History - Spirit - Art. 3rd, expanded edition. Wienand, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 , pp. 639-701, here p. 644.

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