Saint-Riquier

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Saint-Riquier
Saint-Riquier coat of arms
Saint-Riquier (France)
Saint-Riquier
region Hauts-de-France
Department Somme
Arrondissement Abbeville
Canton Rue
Community association Ponthieu-Marquenterre
Coordinates 50 ° 8 ′  N , 1 ° 57 ′  E Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′  N , 1 ° 57 ′  E
height 19-97 m
surface 14.48 km 2
Residents 1,258 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 87 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 80135
INSEE code 80716

Saint-Riquier ( Dutch Sint-Rikiers ) is a French commune in the department of Somme in the region of Hauts-de-France .

It has 1258 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) and is located about 40 km northwest of Amiens .

history

Saint-Riquier dates back to the 7th century. Centulum was the old Latin name for the medieval village. In addition to the name Centulum, there was also the variant Centula. Today the village is named after the monk named Riquier ( Richerius or Richarius in the sources), who founded a monastery near Centulum. Construction of the abbey began as early as the 8th century, but most of it was not built until the 15th and 16th centuries in the high Gothic style . At the time of the Carolingian monastery of well-known personalities as was Angilbert and the emperor's grandson Ludwig passed.

City charter was granted in 1126.

The German twin town of Saint-Riquiers has been Stutensee in Baden-Württemberg since 1982 .

Attractions

Saint-Riquier Abbey Church

The town's landmark is the former abbey with its church from the 8th to 16th centuries. The original building with a westwork from the end of the 8th century was probably built under the direction of Angilbert. The organ dates from the 18th century. Sculptures, furniture and paintings can be seen in the abbey. The wall paintings in the treasury from the 16th century are particularly noteworthy. Also worth seeing are the hospice with chapel from the 18th century (completed in 1704) and a square sandstone defense tower, completed in the 16th century.

Culture

Every summer, Saint-Riquier Abbey hosts the international musical festival known as Festival Estival or Le Festival de Musique.

Abbots

From the family of the Burgundian Guelphs :

  • Hugo Abbas (until 861)
  • Rudolf († before 864)
  • Rudolf († 866)
  • Welf († 881)
  • Helgaud

literature

  • Wilhelm Effmann : Centula. St. Riquier. An investigation into the history of church architecture in the Carolingian period (research and findings, vol. II). Aschendorff, Münster in Westphalia, 1912.
  • Friedrich Möbius: The Carolingian imperial monastery church Centula (Saint-Riquier) and its reliquary. A case study on the everyday understanding of early medieval religiosity , Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2013. ISBN 978-3-86583-767-7

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graesse 1909 : Centulum, p Richerii monasterium
  2. ↑ To the different spellings an excerpt from the Vita Beatissimi Richarii des Alcuin : "In villa Centula . Pontivensium regio, vulgo le Ponthieu, tractus est Picardiae intra fines Ambiensium, Morinorum et Neustrianorum; cujus tractus caput Abbavilla (Abbeville), a qua duabus leucis orientem versus distat Centula seu Centulum oppidum , ubi Centulense monasterium , utrumque nunc S. Richarii (Saint-Riquier) nomine insignitum, ad Scarduonem (la rivière aux Cardons) num provinciae Pontivae [le Ponthieu], velut lucifer interas umbras oriens emicuit, ... "
  3. ↑ Werner Müller / Gunther Vogel: dtv-Atlas zur Baukunst , Volume 2, 5th edition 1987, page 371

Web links

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