Propstei St. Remigius

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Provost church "St. Remigius "
Grave slab of Count Friedrich I von Veldenz

The Propstei St. Remigius is a former Benedictine monastery on the Remigiusberg between Haschbach am Remigiusberg and Theisbergstegen in the district of Kusel . It existed from 1127 to 1526 and belonged to the Abbey of St. Remy in Reims . The former provost church is the only building that has been preserved.

history

The area around Kusel and Altenglan ( Cosla and Gleni ), later called Remigiusland , had been in the possession of the Archdiocese of Reims since at least the 9th century . The exclave, which spiritually belonged to the Archdiocese of Mainz , was given to the St. Remy Monastery in Reims in 952. In a certificate from the German King Otto I from the same year, the monastery of St. Remy is confirmed to own the Remigiusland and an abbey in Kusel.

The Propstei St. Remigius on the Remigiusberg was founded around 1127 by monks of the St. Remy monastery. The oldest documented mention is the confirmation document of the establishment of October 8, 1127 by the Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert I. This document contains the information that the Benedictine monks bought and demolished a castle that was previously there, which was illegally built, and replaced it with the Would have erected monastery buildings. The document is attested, among others, by Gerlach I, the founder of the County of Veldenz . The Counts of Veldenz and their successors exercised the bailiwick rights over the Remigiusland and the provost since that time.

The demolished castle was a forerunner of the later Michelsburg , which was built around 1260 in the immediate vicinity on Propsteigelände by Count Heinrich II of Zweibrücken . The reason was the dispute with the wild counts about the Veldenz legacy, and contrary to the original promise, the castle was not demolished after the end of the dispute, but expanded. The local provost Johann von Veldenz became abbot of the Weißenburg (Wissembourg) monastery in Alsace in 1402 .

After the introduction of the Reformation in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , the provost's office was dissolved in 1526. In 1552 the Remigiusland with the abandoned monastery was sold to Count Palatine Georg Johann I von Pfalz-Veldenz for 8000 guilders , the provost church became the burial place of the counts.

Of the former monastery buildings, only the provost church remains. It serves as the parish church of the Catholic Parish Remigiusberg. In the former rectory, which was built on the monastery grounds in 1842/42, there is now an inn. In the church is the artistically valuable grave slab of Count Friedrich I von Veldenz († 1327), who is buried here.

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  1. ↑ a b Ernst Schworm: Kusel - history of the city . Ed .: City of Kusel.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Keddigkeit , Alexander Thon, Rolf Übel : Palatinate Castle Lexicon . Part 3. I - N. 1. Edition. Kaiserslautern 2005.
  3. ↑ Christian Schüler-Beigang (arrangement): Kreis Kusel (=  cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 16 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1999, ISBN 3-88462-163-7 .

Coordinates: 49 ° 31 ′ 15.8 ″  N , 7 ° 26 ′ 18.1 ″  E