Surbourg Monastery

Coordinates: 48 ° 54 ′ 34 "  N , 7 ° 50 ′ 50"  E

Monastery church of St. Martin and Arbogast in Surburg

The Surbourg Monastery (French Abbatiale Saint-Jean-Baptiste ) is a former Benedictine monastery in Surburg in the Holy Forest near Haguenau in Alsace .

Side door with Romanesque lintel

history

The St. John the Baptist ordained Abbey is the oldest monastic foundation in Alsace. Around 570 St. Arbogast of Strasbourg , when he became bishop in Strasbourg, the monastery. The current church was built in the 11th century and is still largely preserved from the time it was built as a Romanesque basilica . There is a stone from Carolingian times with three flowers above the entrance door and parts of a Roman column have been built into the outer wall. The bones of the cave. Arbogast have been missing since 1499.

literature

• Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz :  Arbogast. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 1, Bautz, Hamm 1975. 2nd, unchanged edition Hamm 1990, ISBN 3-88309-013-1 , Sp. 205.

Web links

Commons : Surbourg Abbey  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website Noteworthy Churches in Alsace ( Memento of February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB)