Vergaville Monastery

The former Benedictine abbey Vergaville (German: Widersdorf ) in the Moselle department in Lorraine , founded in the 10th century, was a priory of the St. Georgen monastery in the Black Forest .

Vergaville was founded in 966 by Count Sigéric von Salm as a Benedictine abbey, in 1086 the community received from Pope Viktor III. (1086-1087) the assurance of Roman protection. Around 1126 the monastery was reformed from the Black Forest Monastery of St. Georgen. Vergaville was placed under the protection of the Metz bishops by Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa in 1155 ; it was a monastery under the supervision of St. Georgen, as a papal privilege from 1179 formulated. In the 14th century a prior of the Black Forest monastery in Vergaville is attested.

The relocation of the relics of St. Eustasius from Luxeuil to Vergaville triggered pilgrimages in the 12th century, making Vergaville a station on the Camino de Santiago .

Today's church is a simple, flat-roofed late Gothic hall building on Romanesque foundations with a 5/8 choir with tracery windows. The most important piece of equipment is the figure of St. Eustasius from the early 14th century.

Today's Eyres-Moncube Benedictine Abbey ( Notre-Dame Saint-Eustase ) dates back to Vergaville Abbey.

literature

• Wollasch, H.-J., The Beginnings of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest. To develop the historical peculiarity of a monastery within the Hirsauer Reform (= research on the history of the Upper Rhine region 14) , Freiburg i.Br. 1964
• Wollasch, H.-J., The Benedictine Abbey of St. Georgen in the Black Forest and its relationships with monasteries west of the Rhine , in: 900 Years of the City of St. Georgen in the Black Forest 1084-1984. Festschrift, ed. vd Stadt St. Georgen, St. Georgen 1984, pp. 45–61

Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 16 ″  N , 6 ° 44 ′ 37 ″  E