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Sandrad (* before 972, † 24 August 985 or 986) was a Benedictine and abbot of the monasteries Gladbach (now Mönchengladbach ), Ellwangen and Weißenburg in Alsace ( double . Wissembourg ).

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Sandrad was a student of Archbishop Brun of Cologne and a member of the convent of St. Maximin in Trier, where he held the office of cellar . St. Maximin belonged to the Gorzer reform movement . He had previously worked as a reformer in numerous monasteries . Sandrad was an important religious figure of his time.

Sandrad had close ties to the court of Emperor Otto the Great and was the confessor of his second wife Adelheid of Burgundy .

972 Otto sent him to St. Gallen to the local Fürstabtei should visit and strengthen the monastic rules. However, with little success and with resistance from the Convention, Sandrad left after a few weeks.

In 974 Sandrad founded the St. Vitus Gladbach Abbey together with Archbishop Gero of Cologne , of which he became the first abbot. At the instigation of the Archbishop of Cologne Warin (976–985) he was expelled from Gladbach - as a result of church political disputes with the diocese of Liège responsible for the abbey in spiritual matters . In 981, Sandrad moved to Weißenburg through Adelheid and was appointed abbot there a little later.

Sandrad had been an abbot at the Ellwangen monastery since around 979. The change of patronage of the Ellwang monastery probably depends on the saints Sulpicius and Servilianus to St. Vitus and his work there. Sandrad brought an arm relic of St. Vitus to Ellwangen from Gladbach.

A few years later, Sandrad returned to Gladbach. Perhaps this step is related to the attack on Weißenburg Abbey in 985 by Duke Otto von Worms .

The name Sandrad is associated with records of monastic order rules ( monastic consuetudines ).

Sandrad died in Gladbach on August 24, 985 or 986. His grave is believed to be in Mönchengladbach Minster .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Alexandra Holtschoppen: On the founding history of the St. Vitus Monastery in Mönchengladbach . In: Uwe Ludwig, Thomas Schilp (ed.): Middle Ages on the Rhine and Maas . Waxmann, Münster 2004, pp. 80-85. ISBN 3-8309-1380-X
  2. ↑ Hans Bange: The Gladbach Minster - The former Benedictine abbey church of St. Vitus . Mönchengladbach 1957.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Frank Legl: Sandrad . In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 22 (2005), pp. 424–425 [online version]; Link: http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/pnd139579095.html
  4. ^ Hugo Borger: The minster S. Vitus to Mönchen-Gladbach . Diss. Essen 1958, p. 91.
personal data
SURNAME Sand wheel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Benedictine and abbot of the monasteries Gladbach and Weißenburg in Alsace
DATE OF BIRTH before 972
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 985 or August 24, 986
Place of death Mönchengladbach