St. Gregor Monastery (Munster)
The Kloster St. Gregor or Kloster St. Gregorius also Abbey Munster in the Gregoriental was a Benedictine monastery in the town of Munster in Alsace. It was dedicated to Gregory the Great . It existed until the secularization in 1791. The buildings were largely destroyed in the First World War.
The monastery was founded around 660–675 during the reign of Duke Eticho . In 826 the immunity was confirmed . The Hohenstaufen emperors Friedrich I and Friedrich II made rich donations to the monastery. In 1235 the monastery had received jurisdiction over the Gregoriental and the city of Munster and became an imperial abbey .
The city subsequently developed around the monastery and received the city name Munster from Monasterium , the Latin word for monastery. In 1575 the monastery community confirmed the freedom of religion of the residents through the Kientzheim Agreement and undertook to pay the pastor of Munster. During the Thirty Years' War , the city and its surroundings were badly affected. In 1659 the first French abbot, Dom Charles Marchant , took over the reins. The heavily damaged buildings were rebuilt between 1682 and 1686. The abbot's palace was only completed between 1786 and 1789.
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- Heinrich Beck (Hrsg.): Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde. Volume 7, De Gruyter, 1987/89
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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 '24.4 " N , 7 ° 8' 15.7" E