Prüm Abbey

The later Abbey of Prüm in Prüm (Eifel - Ardennes ) was 721 donated by Bertrada the elders, the great-grandmother of Charlemagne. From his parents, Pippin the Younger and his wife Bertrada the younger the abbey was occupied by 752 monks of the Benedictine order and refounded as a home monastery of the Carolingians. The Abbey has always been closely connected with the family of the Carolingian and enjoyed the special favor. After his abdication as Emperor Lothar I spent in Prüm the last days of his life and got his grave in the Prüm Abbey.

Importance

The possession of the abbey was huge and stretched from the Rhine to the Brittany and the Netherlands. Hundreds of places, among others in the Eifel and the Ahr, in the Taunus mountains, in the vicinity of St. Goar, in France, Belgium and the Netherlands are first mentioned in the nomenclature of goods of the abbey, the Prüm land register.

To manage the sprawling estate, the Prüm Abbey bailiwicks and branch monasteries were assumed, among other things: Revin (France), Güsten at Jülich, Münstereifel, Kesseling the River Ahr Altrip.

Famous Abbey was also by their convent school, were trained in the sons of the dynasty and the Carolingian nobility. In Prüm lived among other St. Mark Ward, the adviser of Louis the Pious, the canonized Ado of Vienne, Ansbald and Hungerus Frisus and the poet Wandalbert.

A hospital for the poor was from the Abbey, as a document of 762 AD testifies to entertain. Here twelve destitute and physically needy people were admitted for life that had to do in return lighter work ( bell ringing, etc.) in the monastery. In addition, the hospital passing by arms were briefly housed and cared for.

The outstanding medieval historian Regino was abbot of Prüm.

Except Lothar I also spent another Carolingian more or less voluntarily some time in the abbey:

  • Pippin the Hunchback ( son of Charlemagne ) 811 † in Prüm
  • Charles the Bald, who is regarded as the first king of France, was banished the age of ten to Prum and educated in the convent school.
  • Hugo ( son of Lothar II ) † 895 in Prüm

History

  • 721 Initial establishment of the monastery by Bertrada the elderly and Charibert (of Mürlenbach ) with monks from the monastery of Echternach.
  • 752 foundation of the monastery by King Pepin with Benedictine monks from St. Faron in Meaux, near Paris. He handed the monastery parts of the sandals of Christ, which he had in turn obtained from Pope Zacharias for help with the establishment of the Roman Church State. Abbey and church were given the name " To the Most Holy Redeemer " - St. Salvator. This special award was exceptional. It documented that Prüm was the most important abbey of the empire at that time. The sandals of Christ are still preserved in a precious reliquary in the basilica.
  • 799 Inauguration of the monastery church of St. Salvator by Pope Leo III. in the presence of Charlemagne.
  • 855 joined Emperor Lothar I, upon the division of Prüm into the monastery and died shortly thereafter.
  • 882 first Norman tower. Monastery buildings were destroyed. The library burned down. 90 % of the manuscripts were destroyed.
  • 892 second Norman tower. The monks fled, according to tradition Dasbourg.
  • 1222 Prüm Abbey of Emperor Frederick II was raised to the principality.
  • 1576 came the Abbey against their will to the electorate of Trier. When the last Prince-Abbot Christoph von Manderscheid - Kayl died in 1576, Archbishop James III appeared. von Eltz in Prüm and let be introduced against the resistance of the monks as his successor.
  • 1721 Construction of the monastery church ( by Johann Georg Judas ) under Elector Franz Ludwig von Pfalz- Neuburg.
  • 1748 Construction of the abbey buildings by Andreas Seitz, designed by Balthasar Neumann Elector Franz Georg von Schönborn.
  • 1794 dissolution of the abbey and the expulsion of the monks ( Secularisation ) by the French. After the building was temporarily headquarters of various offices. Today is in the abbey buildings, the Regino -Gymnasium.
  • 1802, the abbey church became the parish church of St. Salvator.
  • 1827 Prüm became the seat of a deanery.
  • 1860 were found the remains of the Emperor Lothair in the breakdown of the old high altar.
  • 1874/1875 a tomb with the financial support of Kaiser Wilhelm I. was built on the bones of Lothair I..
  • 1891 donated the Prüm doctors and pharmacists a new shrine for the relics of the three doctors.
  • 1896 a precious shrine altar for the sandals of Christ was donated.
  • 1927, the church received the Baroque altar of the Carmelite church in Bad Kreuznach.
  • Since September 16, 1944 the city of Prüm was the target of U.S. American artillery fire. Especially since 23 December took the bomb attacks ( Battle of the Bulge ). The former abbey buildings were badly damaged.
  • Christmas Eve 1945, an hour before the Christmas, the vault of the entire long and right nave collapsed due to the effects of war.
  • In 1950, the reconstruction of the church was largely completed. At the same time gave Pope Pius XII. the monastery church the title of " Minor Basilica Pontificia "
  • 1952, the rebuilding of the abbey building was largely completed.

Abbots of Prüm

  • Angloardus 720-762
  • Assuerus 762-804
  • Tankrad 804-829
  • Mark Ward 829-853
  • Eigil 853-860
  • Ansbald 860-886
  • Farabert I. 886-892
  • Regino 892-899
  • Richar (Richard) of Hainault 899-921 ( 920-945 Bishop of Liège )
  • Ruotfried 921-935
  • Farabert II of St. Paul 935-947
  • Ingelram of Limburg 947-976
  • Eberhard von Salm 976-986
  • Childeric 986-993
  • Stephan von Saffenberg 993-1001
  • Udo von Namur 1001-1003
  • Immo von Sponheim 1003-1006
  • Urold of Thaun ( Daun) 1006-1018
  • Hilderad of Burgundy 1018-1026
  • Ruprecht Arberg 1026-1068
  • Rizo from Jülich 1068-1077
  • Wolfram von Bettingen 1077-1103
  • Poppo de Beaumont 1103-1119
  • Lantfried of Hesse 1119-1131
  • Adalbero of Basel 1131-1136
  • Godfrey I of Hochstaden 1136-1155
  • Rother Malberg 1155-1170
  • Robert I of Cleves 1170-1174
  • Gregory I of funds 1174-1184
  • Gerhard von Vianden 1184-1212
  • Caesarius of Milendonk 1212-1216
  • Kuno von Ahr 1216-1220
  • Frederick I of rock 1220-1245
  • Gottfried II of Blankenheim 1245-1274
  • Walter Blankenheim 1274-1322
  • Henry I of Schoenecken 1322-1342
  • Diether von Katzenelenbogen 1342-1350
  • John I Zandt of Merl 1350-1354
  • Dietrich von Kerpen 1354-1397
  • Frederick II of Schleiden 1397-1427
  • Henry II of Are- Hirstorff 1427-1433
  • John II of Esche 1433-1476
  • Robert II of Virneburg 1476-1513
  • Gregory II of Homburg 1513
  • Wilhelm von Manderscheid - Kayl 1513-1546
  • Christoph von Manderscheid - Kayl 1546-1576
  • Since 1576, the electors and archbishops of Trier, acted in place of the abbot as " administrators " of the Abbey
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