Selz Monastery

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The Selz Abbey was founded 991, St. Peter and Paul consecrated kingdom monastery of Benedictine , the 1481 to a collegiate was converted.

The Alsatian Peterskloster Selz , located north of Strasbourg , was founded by Empress Adelheid , the grandmother of Emperor Otto III. The community of Benedictines founded in 991 was shortly thereafter endowed with protection of kings and immunity with free election of abbots and bailiffs (991/992). The monastery became the burial place of the monastery founder in 997 and was in close relations with the German kings and emperors until the end of the 11th century . The Salisch- Zähring Compromise of 1097/1098 made the monastery a place of public expression of peace; at that time the Selz monastery governor passed to the margraves of Baden . The 11th century saw Selz integrated into the monastic association of the Burgundian Cluny , from the 12th century the relations with the papacy played an important role. Relocated near the town of Selz in 1307 due to a flood disaster, the monastic community held its own between the southwestern German territories until it was converted into a collegiate monastery in 1481 .

The last abbot and first provost was Walther von Gemmingen , who died in September 1501.

The Electoral Palatinate secularized the monastery during the Reformation. In 1575 it was converted into a knight academy for a few years , but it was closed two years later.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Stocker: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen . Heidelberg 1895, p. 169 ( online ).
  2. ^ Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine. 1875, p. 149 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

literature

  • Wilhelm Erben: The beginnings of the Selz monastery . In: Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine NF 7, 1892, pp. 1–37 ( online ).
  • Joachim Wollasch: The burial monastery of Empress Adelheid in Selz on the Rhine. In: Frühmittelalterliche Studien 2 (1968), pp. 135-143 ( online ).
  • Hermann Bannasch: On the foundation and older history of the Selz Benedictine monastery in Alsace. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine 117 (1969), pp. 97-160.
  • Hubertus Seibert: Selz . In: Lexikon des Mittelalters, Vol. 7, 1995, Col. 1738.
  • Alfred Wendehorst / Stefan Benz: Directory of the secular canon pens of the imperial church . (= Publications of the Central Institute for Franconian Regional Studies and General Regional Research at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg 35). Neustadt an der Aisch 1997, p. 168 (not viewed); earlier version online .
  • Empress Adelheid and her monastery in Selz. Lectures at the scientific conference in Landau and Selz from October 15 to 17, 1999 . Speyer 2005 ISBN 3-932155-21-1 (not viewed)
  • Florian Lamke: Cluniacensians on the Upper Rhine . Freiburg / Munich 2009, pp. 391-418.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 53 '59 "  N , 8 ° 5' 53.1"  E