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L’ Kornelimünster abbey, also called Saint-Corneille abbey on India [ first ] , near Aix-la-Chapelle (Germany) was an abbey of Empire from 814 to 1804. It was founded a second time by the Benedictines of the Subiaco Congregation in 1906, under the patronage of Saint Benedict of Aniane and Saint Corneille.

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The abbey was founded by Saint Benoît d’Aniane and Louis Le Pieux in 814, as Monastery to Indam . This monastery was known as a monastery of the Redeemer-sur-l’Inde (India being an tributary of the Roer).

Saint Benoît d’Aniane [ 2 ] Descend from a family of the nobility of Wisigothe in the south of present -day France. He is raised at the court of the Pépin King. He became a monk and founded a community in Aniane near Montpellier in 779.

He then entered the circle of councilors of Louis Le Pieux, son of Charlemagne and king of the kingdom of the Franks. He follows him at the court of Aix-la-Chapelle and participated in the synod of 816-818. The Saint Benoît rule spreads in the monasteries of Europe and Benoît d’Aniane recommends it for the monks. It was at this time that the monastery was founded.

Louis the pious donated three badges, that of towel of , the linen with which the Lord washed the feet of his disciples before the last period, that of sindones munda , shroud of Christ, and finally that of handwriting of , linen which wiped the sweat of Christ and which was discovered in his empty tomb by Saint John and Saint Peter. Part of the shroud is given to the Abbey of Compiègne by Charles Le Chauve in 875. The abbey also receives relics of Saint Corneille and Saint Cyprien. The monastery is then called Monastery of St. Cornelius Indam .

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The abbey therefore becomes an extremely frequented place of pilgrimage, and for the Germanic peoples as frequented as that of Aix-la-Chapelle, and is the obligatory starting point for pilgrimages to Rome, Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle or the Holy Land.

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The abbey was pillaged by the Normans in 881 and rebuilt under the reign of Othon III. The abbot then became prince-bishop and Kornelimünster enjoys significant privileges. The abbey is immediate, it has trade and legal privileges and has large areas that grow with pious donations, with whole cities and villages under its jurisdiction. The heritage of the abbey includes the chapter of Sclayn and the city of Renaix (“Telement of India”). The abbey has around 10,000 hectares of agricultural land in 1798.

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The abbey is still rebuilt at the beginning of XIV It is century, after a revolt of Aix bourgeois, then enlarged in the XV It is , XVI It is and 18 It is centuries. The abbey in its current form, with three wings, was built between 1721 and 1728.

The monks had to flee in 1792 and again in 1794 before the arrival of French revolutionary troops. Napoleon, who occupies Rhineland, makes monasteries close. Kornelimünster is sold to a sheet manufacturer in 1807 [ 3 ] . She regains her religious vocation, at the end of XIX It is century, housing a Catholic seminar within its walls.

View of the new abbey church.

The German monks of the Merkelbeek Saint-Clément Abbey, founded by the Subiaco Congregation at the time of Cultural struggle In the Netherlands, the abbey refounded in 1906, but in another place further west. They only settled in 1908 after the development of new buildings.

There is no shortage of vocations despite political vexations until 1945, the new Kornelimünster foundation was erected in abbey in 1953. His first Resident abbot was Father Bonifatius Becker (1898-1981) from 1956 to 1967. The abbey directs A boarding school between 1948 and 1988. Today the nine monks, directed since 2008 by Father-Abbé Friedhelm Tissen, take care of retractors and surrounding parishes.

  • 815-821: Benedictus van Aniane
  • 821–842: Wikard
  • 843–851: Adelang
  • Syfort
  • Odelin
  • ? -881: rodoward
  • 881–887: Revelong
  • ca 892: Egilhard
  • ca 914: Adagrin
  • ?–920: Erich
  • 920–931: Erenbald
  • 931–938: Balderich
  • ca 948: Berthold I
  • ? -978: nikard
  • 978–988: Hendrik I
  • ca 997: Lantfried
  • Freeman
  • 1064–?: Winrich I
  • Richard
  • Gerhard
  • Dirk (Dietrich)
  • Rudolf
  • 1135–1155: year
  • Werner
  • 1212–1215: Florent I
  • 1220-1247: Florent 2
  • ca 1248: Albert I
  • 1257–1258: Willem I
  • ? –1263: Say
  • 1263–1271: Johan I
  • 1278–1309: Reinhold
  • 1310: Arnold I of Molenark
  • 1319–1321: Reimar
  • 1324–1333: Arnold II
  • 1340–1355: richald
  • 1355–1380: Johan II van Löwendael
  • 1380–1392: Winrich II van Kintsweiler
  • 1392–1400: Bawin Barm van Metzenhausen
  • 1400–1407: Peter van Roden
  • 1407–1434: Winand of Rohr
  • 1434–1450: Hendrik II van Gertzen
  • 1450–1481: Herbert van Lulsdorf
  • 1481-1491: Wilhelm II Von Ghoer
  • 1491-1531: HENDRIC VAN BINDSFELD
  • 1645-1652: Hendrik van Friemersdorf
  • 1652-1699: Bertram Gozewijn van Gevertshagen
  • 1699–1713: Rutger Stefan von Neuhoff-Lley
  • 1713–1744: Hyacinth Alphonse de Sluys
  • 1745-1764: Karl Ludwig by Sickingen-Ebernburg
  • 1764–1803: Matthias Ludwig von Plettenberg-Engsfeld
  1. Jacobs Thibault, «  Trades hospitals in Brussels? New perspectives on charity and charity in urban areas at the end of the Middle Ages », Belgian review of philosophy and history , n you 91-2, , p. 215-255, here p. 247 ( read online )
  2. Saint Benoît d’Aniane and Saint Benoît de Nursie should not be confused.
  3. Paul Fabianek, follow the secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland – using the example of the monasteries Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster, 2012, Verlag Bod, (ISBN  978-3-8482-1795-3 )

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