Burtscheid Abbey
| Imperial Abbey of Burtscheid | ||||||||
| Abtei Burtscheid | ||||||||
| Imperial Abbey of the Holy Roman Empire | ||||||||
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 Burtscheid abbey church
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| Capital | Burtscheid Abbey | |||||||
| Languages | Moselle Franconian | |||||||
| Government | Theocracy | |||||||
| Historical era | Middle Ages | |||||||
| • | Founded by Benedictines | 997 | ||||||
| • | Made Reichsfrei | 1138 | ||||||
| • | Taken over by Cistercians, immediacy confirmed |
1220 |
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| • | Purchased its own Vogtei | 1649 | ||||||
| • | Established gambling house | 1779 | ||||||
| • | Occupied by France | 1792, 1794–1804 | ||||||
| • | Secularised to France | 1802 | ||||||
| • | Awarded to Prussia | 1815 | ||||||
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| Today part of |
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Burtscheid Abbey (German: Abtei Burtscheid) was a house of the Benedictine Order, after 1220 a Cistercian nunnery, located at Burtscheid, near Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Germany.
The abbey was founded in 997 under Emperor Otto III. The first abbot, Gregor, who came to Burtscheid from Calabria, is sometimes said to have been the brother of Theophanu, Byzantine mother of the Emperor. He was buried beneath the altar after his death in 999, and his date of death, 4 November, was kept as a feast day until the dissolution of the abbey.
In 1018 the Emperor Henry II endowed it with the surrounding territory. Also at about this time the monastery was raised to the status of an abbey, and the dedication was changed from Saints Nicholas and Apollinaris to Saints John the Baptist and Nicholas.
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