Ebersmünster Monastery

St. Mauritius Abbey Church

The Ebersmünster monastery was a former Benedictine abbey in the Alsatian community of Ebersmünster . The abbey church of St. Mauritius is still preserved.

history

Saint Deodatus (also called Apostle of the Vosges , French Saint Dié ; † June 19, 679), from around 655 Bishop of Nevers , founded with relics of Saint Mauritius , which he received from the Abbey of Saint-Maurice , with the help of Chilperich II . the monastery Ebersmünster in Alsace in 667, after being on the island Novientum (an island in the Ill St.), the Church of St. Peter and Paul with the side altar. Had helped build Mauritius. Soon afterwards, in 669, he built a hermitage that later became the Jointures monastery near Kaysersberg as a result of a gift from King Childerich II .

Thanks to the support of Adalrich, the father of St. Odilia , and who later also canonized St. Hunna of Hunawihr , the monastery flourished quickly. But in the Thirty Years War (1636) the Swedes burned the reliquary box from Ebersmünster.

literature

Roger Lehni: The abbey church of Ebersmünster . Editions Mage, Drancy 1986.

Individual evidence

↑ Laurenz Burgener: Helvetia Sancta or life and work of the holy, blessed and pious persons of the Swiss country . Volume 3. Verlag Gebrüder Benzinger, Einsiedeln / New York / Cincinnati 1862, pp. 130 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search, accessed on March 30, 2017).

Web links

Commons : Abbaye d'Ebersmunster - collection of images, videos and audio files

History and description of the Silbermann organ (French)
Les Heures Musicales (French)

48.311111111111 7.5269444444444Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 40 ″ N , 7 ° 31 ′ 37 ″ E

[1] Laurenz Burgener: Helvetia Sancta or life and work of the holy, blessed and pious persons of the Swiss country . Volume 3. Verlag Gebrüder Benzinger, Einsiedeln / New York / Cincinnati 1862, pp. 130 ff. ( Limited preview in the Google book search, accessed on March 30, 2017).