Kornelimünster Abbey
Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster | |||||
Reichsabtei Kornelimünster | |||||
Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | |||||
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Kornelimünster in 1789 | |||||
Capital | Kornelimünster Abbey | ||||
Government | Elective principality | ||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||
• | Abbey founded | 814 | |||
• | Gained Reichsfreiheit | mid-9th century | |||
• | Acquired reliquary (head of Pope Cornelius) |
875 | |||
• | Joined Lower Rhenish– Westphalian Circle |
1500 | |||
• | Secularised by France | 1802 | |||
• | Awarded to Prussia | June 9, 1815 | |||
Kornelimünster Abbey (German: Kloster Kornelimünster), otherwise known as Abbey of the Abbot Saint Benedict of Aniane and Pope Cornelius, is a Benedictine monastery in Kornelimünster, in operation since 1972 in a part of Aachen (in the district of Kornelimünster/Walheim), in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
History
The monastery was founded in 814 on the river Inde by Benedict of Aniane, an adviser to Emperor Louis the Pious (successor to Charlemagne). The monastery was at first known as the "Monastery of the Redeemer on the Inde".
In the mid-9th century, the monastery became an Imperial abbey ("Reichsunmittelbar") and received not only large endowments of land but also so-called Biblical or Saviour's relics: a loincloth, a sudarium, and a shroud.
In 875, half of the shroud was exchanged for a relic of the head of the martyred Pope Cornelius (died in 253), after which the abbey was known as Sancti Cornelii ad Indam, and later as Kornelimünster. (The full official title of the present monastery is the Abbey of the Abbot Saint Benedict of Aniane and Pope Cornelius).
In the 12th century, a canon of Aachen composed the famous Tafelgüterverzeichnis, a registry of certain royal estates and what they owed the king's court. It is one of the earliest pieces of evidence for the extent of the German royal fisc.
In 1500, the Imperial abbey (Reichsabtei) of Kornelimünster became part of the Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle.
In 1802, the territory of Kornelimünster came under French rule and the abbey was dissolved in the secularisation.[1] The abbey church became the parish church, and the remaining abbey buildings state property, now belonging to the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia. Kornelimünster became a mairie in Kanton BurtscheidIn 1815, Kornelimünster became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and of the district (Landkreis) of Aachen.
Second foundation
The monastery was re-founded by the Benedictines in 1906 at a different location in the western part of Kornelimünster and is still in operation as a member of the Subiaco Congregation.
References
- ↑ Paul Fabianek, Folgen der Säkularisierung für die Klöster im Rheinland – Am Beispiel der Klöster Schwarzenbroich und Kornelimünster, 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3
Further reading
- Paul Fabianek: Folgen der Säkularisierung für die Klöster im Rheinland - Am Beispiel der Klöster Schwarzenbroich und Kornelimünster, 2012, Verlag BoD, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3
External links
Media related to Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster at Wikimedia Commons
- Kornelimünster Abbey official website (German)
- History of the Reichsabtei Kornelimünster with map, 1789 (German)
- Monumente-Online:Aachen - Notes on the Benedictine Abbey of Kornelimünster (German)
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Coordinates: 50°43′43″N 6°10′41″E / 50.72861°N 6.17806°E
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