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HOHENBURG

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(ODILIENBERG; ALTITONA)

A suppressed nunnery, situated on the Odilienberg, the most famous of the Vosges
mountains in Alsace. It was founded about 690 by St. Odilia, who also was its
first abbess. On the eastern slope of the Odilienberg she built a hospice called
Niedermünster or Nieder-Hohenburg, which afterwards became a convent for ladies
of nobility and was destroyed by lightning in 1572. Originally Hohenburg seems
to have been occupied by Benedictine nuns who were replaced by canonesses in the
eleventh century. In the first half of the twelfth century it began to decline,
but its discipline was restored by Abbess Relindis of Bergen near Neuburg on the
Danube, who became Abbess of Hohenburg about 1140. During her rule Hohenburg
became famous for its strict discipline as well as the great learning of its
nuns. She was succeeded in 1167 by Herrad von Landsperg under whose rule the
fame of Hohenburg continued to increase. She built the Premonstratensian
monastery of St. Gorgon on the slope of the mountain in 1178, and the
Augustinian monastery of Truttenhausen at its foot. Herrad is the author of
"Hortus deliciarum", a collection of short treatises on theology, astronomy,
philosophy, and other branches of learning. It also contained some original
Latin poems with musical accompaniment, and some beautiful drawings. The work
was destroyed at the conflagration of the Strasburg library in 1870. When
Hohenburg perished by fire in 1546 some of the nuns returned to their parents,
others became Protestants and married. In 1661 Hohenburg was rebuilt and
occupied by Premonstratensians. During the French Revolution it was confiscated
by the Government and sold as national property in 1791. Mgr. Räss, Bishop of
Strasburg, purchased the buildings in 1853 for his diocese.


SOURCES

SILBERMANN, Beschreibung von Hohenburg (Strasburg, 1781 sad 1835); FORRER, Der
Odilienberg (Strasburg, 1899); REINHARD, Le mont Ste-Odile et ses environs
(Strasburg, 1888).


ABOUT THIS PAGE

APA citation. Ott, M. (1910). Hohenburg. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York:
Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07384b.htm

MLA citation. Ott, Michael. "Hohenburg." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 7. New
York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07384b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Douglas J. Potter.
Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. June 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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