- Kornelimünster Abbey
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Princely Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster
Reichsfürstabtei KornelimünsterImperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire ← 9th century – 1802 → Coat of arms
Capital Kornelimünster Abbey Government Theocracy 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) is a Benedictine monastery in Kornelimünster, since 1972 a part of Aachen (as Stadtbezirk Kornelimünster/Walheim), in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
First foundation
The monastery was founded in 814 by Benedict of Aniane, adviser to Emperor Louis the Pious, successor to Charlemagne, on the little river Inde. 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 great endowments of land but also the so-called biblical or Saviour's relics: the loincloth, the sudarium and the 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 1500, the princely imperial abbey (Reichsfürstabtei) 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. 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 Burtscheid.
In 1815, Kornelimünster became part of the Kingdom of Prussia and of the district (Landkreis) of Aachen.
Second foundation
The monastery was re-founded by Benedictines in 1906 and is still in operation as a member of the Subiaco Congregation.
External links
- (German) Kornelimünster Abbey official website
- (German) History of the Reichsfürstabtei Kornelimünster with map, 1789
- (German) Monumente-Online:Aachen - Notes on the Benedictine Abbey of Kornelimünster
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 • WerdenImperial provostries and
priories (Reichspropsteien)Klingenmünster • St. BartholomäusImperial charterhouse
(Reichskartause)- Also a Prince of the Empire † Also in Swabian College
Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle (1500–1806) of the Holy Roman Empire Ecclesiastical Prelates Secular Counts
and lordsfrom 1500Bentheim · Bronkhorst (until 1719) · Diepholz · East Frisia (until 1667) · Horne3 (until 1614) · Hoya · Lingen3 · Lippe · Manderscheid (until 1546) · Moers (until 1541) · Nassau (Diez · Hadamar · Dillenburg (until 1664)) · Oldenburg (until 1777) · Pyrmont · Ravensberg3 · Reichenstein · Rietberg · Salm-Reifferscheid · Sayn · Schaumburg · Tecklenburg · Virneburg · Wied · Winneburg and Beilstein · Zimerauff?from 1792Anholt · Blankenheim and Gerolstein · Gemen · Gimborn · Gronsfeld · Hallermund · Holzapfel · Kerpen-Lommersum · Myllendonk · Reckheim · Schleiden · Wickrath · Wittemstatus
uncertainCities 1 from 1792. 2 until 1792. 3 without Reichstag seat. ? status uncertain.Categories:- Imperial abbeys
- Former theocracies
- Former countries in Europe
- States of the Holy Roman Empire
- States and territories established in the 9th century
- States and territories disestablished in 1802
- Benedictine monasteries in Germany
- Christian monasteries established in the 9th century
- Aachen
- Monasteries in North Rhine-Westphalia
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