Stablo Monastery
Stablo Monastery (lat. Monasterium Stabulensis and the like) was a Benedictine monastery in Stablo (Stavelot) near Liège in what is now Belgium . It was part of the Stablo-Malmedy Imperial Abbey .
history
The monastery was founded by Remaclus in 648 and dissolved during the French Revolution at the end of the 18th century.
The then abbot of Solignac , Remaclus, was given by King Sigibert III. granted the right to found an abbey. He even founded two monasteries on the assigned terrain: 648 Stablo and 650 Malmedy . Remaclus was buried in Stablo, the shrine is now in the church of Saint Sébastien in Stavelot. Under the abbots Odilo (936–954) and Poppo (1020–1048), the monastery became one of the most important centers of the reform movement starting from Cluny . Emperor Heinrich IV. (11th century) placed Malmedy under the rule of Stablos.
Stablo and Malmedy Monastery have been linked in personal union since their foundation and, as the prince abbey, belonged to the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire . In 1795 the area became part of the French department of Ourthe , and from 1796 the abbeys and monasteries were secularized ; the abbey properties were gradually sold and the church was demolished after the sale. After the Congress of Vienna , Stavelot fell to the Netherlands and in 1830 to Belgium.
Former equipment
Stavelot's 11th century Bible is in the British Library in London. The head reliquary of Pope Alexander I from the 12th century, together with the Stavelot altarpiece, found its way into the collections of the Royal Museums for Art and History in Brussels after the abbey was closed . The shrine of St. Remaclus (13th century) is now in the church of St. Sebastian in Stavelot, as is the reliquary bust of an abbot, made in later times. The storage library from Stavelot is now kept in the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. A medallion by former Remaklus- altarpiece is now in the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin, a second in the Museum of Applied Arts in Frankfurt am Main.
literature
- Eberhard Quadflieg: The immunity of the Stavelot Abbey in Aachen and its Aldegundis Church. In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . Vol. 84/85 (1977/78), p. 783 ff.
- Pierpont Morgan Library : The Stavelot Triptych. Mosan art and the legend of the True Cross. New York 1980.
- Lex Bosman: Architecture and Monastic Reform. The connections between Stablo, Brauweiler and St. Maria im Kapitol. In: Journal of the German Association for Art History. 41: 3-15 (1988).
- Wolfgang Kemp : Substance becomes form - form is relationship. To the Remaklus altar of the Stavelot Abbey (= writings by Wolfgang Kemp. No. 10). In: Martin Papenbrock (ed.): Art and social history. Festschrift for Jutta Held . Centaurus, Pfaffenweiler 1995, ISBN 978-3-8255-0000-9 , pp. 219-234 ( digitized version ).
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Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '37 " N , 5 ° 55' 53.8" E