Kornelimünster Abbey
| Imperial Abbey of Kornelimünster | ||||||||||
| Reichsabtei Kornelimünster | ||||||||||
| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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 Kornelimünster in 1789
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| Capital | Kornelimünster Abbey | |||||||||
| Government | Elective principality | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Abbey founded | 814 | ||||||||
| • | Gained Reichsfreiheit | mid-9th century the 9th century | ||||||||
| • | Acquired reliquary (head of Pope Cornelius) |
875 |
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| • | Joined Lower Rhenish– Westphalian Circle |
1500 |
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| • | Secularised by France | 1802 | ||||||||
| • | Awarded to Prussia | June 9, 1815 | ||||||||
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Kornelimünster Abbey (German: Benediktinerabtei Kornelimünster), also known as Abbey of the Abbot Saint Benedict of Aniane and Pope Cornelius, is a Benedictine monastery that has been integrated since 1972. The abbey is located in Aachen (in the district of Kornelimünster/Walheim) in North Rhine-Westphalia in Germany.
The monastery was founded in 814 on the river Inde by Benedict of Aniane, an adviser to Emperor Louis the Pious (successor to Charlemagne). 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 large endowments of land, as well as Biblical or 's relics: a loincloth, a sudarium and a 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).
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