Senones Abbey

The monastery Senones, an abbey in Rabodeautal in today's city Senones in Lorraine, was founded in 661 by Saint gondola Bert, the former Archbishop of Sens. The instrument location is incomplete. The Benedictine monk Richer Senones wrote the story to 1263rd His work, however, is controversial.

The Abbey is said to have lived in the 9th century, about two hundred monks. The monastery was a fief of the bishops of Metz, particularly Angilram tried to access. The religious violence was the diocese of Toul.

1103 gifted Cunegonde that the Matfried of Tincry widow, with her sons, the Priory Tures of the Abbey of goods. Her older son was Gobert 1105 Vogt of Senones.

1111-1126 was Hermann II of Salm Vogt. His son Henry I continued his work.

Prince Alexander Constantine Joseph zu Salm -Salm decreed on 24 February 1790, the secularization of the abbey Senones, whereas this protest on March 1 in the chapter and lodged a complaint with the Imperial Chamber Court in Wetzlar. However, the monastery was dissolved in 1793.

The bell tower is high medieval, the other buildings date from the 18th and 19th centuries. In 1983, the abbey was classified by the French Ministry of Culture as a monument historique.