Malmedy Monastery

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Malmedy

Monastery Malmedy (also Malmody or Malmünde ; lat. Monasterium Malmudariensis and the like..) Was a monastery of the Benedictine Order in Malmedy near Liege in today's Belgium . The facility was part of the Stablo-Malmedy Imperial Abbey . It was founded by Remaclus in 650 and abolished in 1796 .

history

The then abbot of the Solignac monastery , Remaclus, was appointed by King Sigibert III. granted the right to found an abbey. The bishop then founded two sister monasteries on the available land: Stablo and Malmedy. They were subordinate to different dioceses , Stablo to the Bishop of Liège and Malmedy to the Archbishop of Cologne ; both were relatively independent.

In 881 the abbey was sacked and looted by Vikings .

Henry IV (11th century) placed Malmedy under the rule of Stablos.

Malmedy and Stablo have been linked in personal union since their inception.

Malmedy Abbey was a center of Cluniac reform .

Malmedy and Stablo belonged as prince abbeys to the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire in the early modern period . In 1795 the area of ​​Malmedy came to France , in 1815 it fell to Prussia and after the First World War it came to Belgium as part of the so-called Eastern Cantons in 1920 .

In 1794 the monastery lost its imperial directness and was abolished in 1796.

literature

  • Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 409.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 38 ″  N , 6 ° 1 ′ 39 ″  E