Ottmarsheim Monastery

The Ottmarsheim monastery , formerly also Othmarsheim , was a Benedictine monastery and noble women's monastery in Ottmarsheim in Alsace in France . It is not to be confused with the Ottmarsheim Benedictine convent from the 19th to 21st centuries.

history

In 1030, Count Rudolf von Altenburg , a son of Lanzelin , founded the monastery with the name of Saint Otmar von St. Gallen . Pope Leo IX , who came from Alsace . consecrated the abbey church Ottmarsheim in 1049 in the name of Peter and Paul. However, like the Palatine Chapel in Aachen , which it is modeled on , it was originally a Marian shrine.

literature

• Max Rieple : Picturesque Alsace , 1964
• Franz Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein: Alsace , 1967, ISBN 3-7913-0273-6
• DuMont art travel guide (ed.), Karlheinz Ebert: The Alsace, landmark of European history and culture between Upper Rhine and Vosges , 1979, ISBN 3-7701-0852-3

Web links

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