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Imperial Abbey of BurtscheidAbtei Burtscheid

1138–1802

Coat of arms

Burtscheid Abbey church

Status

Imperial Abbey

Capital

Burtscheid Abbey

Common languages

Moselle Franconian

Government

Theocracy

Historical era

Middle Ages

• Founded by Benedictines

997

• Made Reichsfrei

1138

• Taken over by Cistercians,
immediacy confirmed

1220

• Purchased its own Vogtei

1649

• Established gambling house

1779

• Occupied by France

1792, 1794–1804

• Secularised to France

1802

• Awarded to Prussia

1815

Succeeded by

Roer (department)

Today part of

Germany

Burtscheid Abbey (German: Abtei Burtscheid) was a Benedictine monastery, after 1220 a Cistercian nunnery, located at Burtscheid, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.

History

The abbey was founded in 997 under Emperor Otto III. The first abbot, Gregor, who came to Burtscheid from Calabria, is sometimes said to have been the brother of Theophanu, Byzantine mother of the Emperor. He was buried beneath the altar after his death in 999, and his date of death, 4 November, was kept as a feast day until the dissolution of the abbey.

In 1018 the Emperor Henry II endowed it with the surrounding territory. Also at about this time the monastery was raised to the status of an abbey, and the dedication was changed from Saints Nicholas and Apollinaris to Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas.

In 1138, the abbey was made reichsfrei by Conrad III, being granted Imperial immediacy, the privilege of being subject only to the Holy Roman Emperor, rather than to an intermediate lord. The abbey was under the Vogtei (loosely "protectorship") of the Barony of Mérode until the abbey purchased its Vogtei from them, in 1649.

In 1220, under Emperor Frederick II and his chancellor, Archbishop Engelbert of Cologne, the Benedictines were evicted and replaced by Cistercian nuns who had previously been living at the Salvatorberg in Aachen, to whom the abbey's possessions were transferred. At the same time the abbey's reichsfreiheit was confirmed.

The abbey church was rebuilt in the mid-14th century, and again between 1735 and 1754 by the architect J.J. Couven.

In 1779, despite the refusal of permission by the council of Aachen, who by that time were responsible for local government in Burtscheid, the then abbess introduced a gambling house, and the street is still known today as Krugenofen Kasinostrasse.

Burtscheid was occupied by French troops in December 1792, and from September 1794 until 1804. They used the abbey church for the manufacture of balloons. In August 1802 the nunnery was secularised and dissolved.

The remaining abbey buildings are now used by a school and for residential and administrative purposes.

References

External links

(in German) KuLaDig.de database: Benediktinerabtei Burtscheid, später Zisterzienserinnenkloster
(in German) Germania Sacra: Benediktinerabtei Aachen Burtscheid
(in German) Official website of the town of Burtscheid
(in German) Gesellschaft Burtscheid für Geschichte und Gegenwart (Burtscheid Historical and Civic Society)

v t e Holy Roman Empire — Imperial abbeys of the Rhenish College
Imperial abbeys and colleges (Reichsabteien, Reichsklöster und Reichsstifte)	Buchau* Burtscheid* Essen* Gandersheim Gernrode Herford Hersfeld Kaisheim† Kornelimünster Memleben Michaelsberg Niedermünster Nienburg Obermünster Quedlinburg St. Emmeram's St. Ludger's St. Maximin's St. Ulrich's and St. Afra's Thorn Walkenried Werden	Ecclesiastical states of the Holy Roman Empire, 1648
Imperial provostries and priories (Reichspropsteien)	Klingenmünster St. Bartholomäus
Imperial charterhouse (Reichskartause)	Buxheim†
* Also a Prince of the Empire † Also in Swabian College

50°45′47″N 6°05′36″E / 50.76306°N 6.09333°E / 50.76306; 6.09333

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