Abbey of Saint-Arnould

The Saint Arnulf of Metz Abbey ( Abbaye Saint- Arnould de Metz or Abbaye Saints- Apôtres ) is a company founded in the 6th century Benedictine monastery.

According to tradition, the abbey was initially the name of Apostles Church ( Église des Saints- Apôtres ). 717 they took the name of Saint Arnulf, as the relics of the saint were kept Arnulf ( 614-629 Bishop of Metz) here. Charlemagne made ​​from the monastery of the necropolis of the Carolingians: His wife Hildegard, his sisters and his son, Emperor Louis the Pious, were buried here.

A new building of the abbey at the same point was made in the 10th century. 1049 a larger church was consecrated, which burned in 1097. In the same century the abbey ( 4th century ) took the relics of the Roman martyr Gorgon on. The siege of Metz by Emperor Charles V in 1552 led to the destruction of the monastery after that - was moved to the Dominican convent and thus within the walls of the city - including the imperial grave times. The monastery, the church was excluded, rebuilt in the 17th century. These buildings are the ones that are seen today.

During the Revolution, the monks were driven out and destroyed the imperial tombs. Only a part of the tomb of Louis the Pious is now in the Musée de la ville. 1794 drew a military school, the Ecole d'application de l' artillery et du newly founded genie in the building. In the 19th century the Church disappeared, under Napoleon III. a tower was erected to observe the maneuvers on the Mont Saint- Quentin can. Since 1919, the officers' mess there is housed.