Murbach Abbey
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Abbaye impériale et princière / chapitre collégial-équestral de Murbach (fr) Fürstabtei / Ritterstift Murbach (de) |
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| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||||
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 Church of St. Leger, Murbach Abbey
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| Capital | Murbach Abbey | |||||||||
| Government | Theocracy | |||||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||||
| • | Founded by Eberhard, Count of Alsace |
727 | ||||||||
| • | Charlemagne secular abbot | from 792/3 | ||||||||
| • | Hungarian invasions | 936 | ||||||||
| • | Principality | 1228 | ||||||||
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Rudolph I of Germany purchased Lucerne and Unterwalden estates |
April 16, 1291 |
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| • | Suzerain to France | 1680 | ||||||||
| • | Dissolved during French Revolution |
1789 | ||||||||
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| Today part of |
 France
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Murbach Abbey (French: Abbaye de Murbach) was a famous Benedictine monastery in Murbach, southern Alsace, in a valley at the foot of the Grand Ballon in the Vosges.
The monastery was founded in 727 by Eberhard, Count of Alsace, and established as a Benedictine house by Saint Pirmin. Its territory once comprised three towns and thirty villages. The buildings, including the abbey church, one of the earliest vaulted Romanesque structures, were laid waste in 1789 during the Revolution by the peasantry and the abbey was dissolved shortly afterwards.
Of the Romanesque abbey church, dedicated to Saint Leger, only the transept remains with its two towers, and the east end with the quire. The site of the nave now serves as a burial ground. The building is located on the Route Romane d'Alsace.
The founder of the abbey, Count Eberhard, brother of Luitfrid of the Etichonids, brought Bishop Pirmin from Reichenau Abbey on Lake Constance to build up the religious community, which had previously used the Rule of St. Columbanus and become ill-disciplined. Pirmin solved the difficulty by introducing the Rule of St. Benedict.
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