Eschau monastery

Eschau monastery: Saint-Trophime church

View through the nave of the Saint-Trophime church

The Monastery Eschau , including Abbey Eschau called, was a Benedictine - Abbey in Alsace, to what place Eschau emerged.

history

Eschau Monastery was founded as a virgin monastery in the reign of Emperor Charlemagne as a foundation by Bishop Remigius of Strasbourg . He also had relics of St. Bring Sophia here from Rome .

The Ottonian-Romanesque abbey church of Saint-Trophime , built in the late 10th century, is one of the oldest churches in Alsace. Parts of the richly decorated cloister (11th / 12th centuries) and the Romanesque furnishings are now in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg.

literature

• Johann von Schlumberger (Ed.): Seraphin Dietler's Chronicle of the Schönensteinbach Monastery. 1897.
• Ekkart Sauser :  Sophia of Rome. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 10, Bautz, Herzberg 1995, ISBN 3-88309-062-X , Sp. 807-808.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Johann von Schlumberger (ed.): Seraphin Dietler's Chronik des Klosters Schönensteinbach , 1897, p. 125

Web links

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Coordinates: 48 ° 29 '25.3 "  N , 7 ° 42' 58.3"  E