Sint-Pietersabdij (Oudenburg)

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Former pigeon house.

The Sint-Pietersabdij ( fr. : Abbaye Saint-Pierre d'Oudenburg , lat. : Monasterium Aldenburgensis ) is the ruins of a Benedictine - monastery , which in 1084 by Arnold of Soissons in Oudenburg , now Belgium was founded. It existed until 1797, was nationalized, sold and partially demolished by the buyer during the French Revolution . Today only individual buildings and some ruins remain.

location

The remains of the monastery are in the center of Oudenburg , about 18 km west of Bruges and about 9 km south of the North Sea coast . The municipality belongs to the province of West Flanders .

history

It is assumed that there was already a previous church on the square, which could be traced back to Ursmar von Lobbes († 713). Arnulf von Soissons founded the monastery in 1083 or 1084; from 1095 to 1105 Gervinus von Aldenburg was an abbot. Hariulf (Harnulfus Aldenburgensis Abbas) was abbot and chronicler of the Abbaye de Saint-Riquier monastery in Saint-Riquier in the 12th century .

After the destruction of the French Revolution, only the abbot's house (built in 1756), courtyard (with a gate that bears the year 1671, by Karel Geleyns ), a barn and a pigeon house, and the remains of a wall remained. The wall still bears the coat of arms of Maximilien d'Enghien (1616–1662), who is considered the second renovator of the monastery. The last monk, Norbert Daghelet (1770-1852), came back to Oudenburg after a few wanderings and was pastor from 1821 until his death.

The brewery has disappeared. It was significant for the monastery, as St. Arnulf is the patron saint of brewers . In the years that followed, the surviving buildings of the monastery mainly housed agricultural businesses. In 1989 the buildings were sold again. At times a hotel ("De Abdijhoeve") was housed in the abbot's house. Today the buildings belong to the city of Oudenburg again.

In 1934 the newly founded Sint-Pietersabdij (Brugge) became the legal successor.

present

The Abtsgebouw (Marktstraat 28) by Maurus Eloy has been restored and now houses the Romeins Archeological Museum . The pigeon house was converted by the Germans into a lookout tower with loopholes during World War II .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Other forms of name: Audenbourg, Oldenburg, abbaye Saints-Pierre-et-Paul d'Oudenburg. Émile Poumon: Abbayes de Belgique , Office de publicité, SA, éditeurs, Bruxelles 1954: 103.
  2. ↑ Résumé de thèse de l'Université de Groningen ( Memento of the original of April 30, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dissertations.ub.rug.nl
  3. ↑ Joseph Delmelle: Abbayes et Beguinages de Belgique . Rossel Édition, Brussels 1973, p. 31.

literature

  • F. Van de Putte: Chronique du monastère d'Oudenbourg de l'Ordre de S. benoit. Publiée pour la première fois d'après un manuscrit du XVeme siècle , Gand, C. Annoot-Braeckman 1843, xii-134 p.
  • Chronicon monasterii Aldenburgensis. JB Malou, Bruges 1840 (Googlebooks).
  • Anselm Hoste: De geschiedenis van de Sint-Pietersabdij te Oudenburg , Oudenburg, 1984.


Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 10 "  N , 3 ° 0 ′ 22"  E