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Honcourt Abbey (French: ''Abbaye de Honcourt'') or Hugshofen Abbey (German: ''Kloster Hugshofen'') (''Hugonis Curia'' in Latin) was a Benedictine abbey located near the village of Saint-Martin, Bas-Rhin, founded in the year 1000 and dissolved in or very shortly after 1525. ==History== The abbey was sited next to the ''Klosterwald'' ("monastery wood") in the village of Saint-Martin and was founded in 1000, in the reign of Emperor Otto III, by Count Werner of Ortenbourg, a descendant of the former ruling family of Alsace, the Etichonids, and of the family of the Eberhardines.〔e.g., according to a diploma of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa: "Omnium christi nostrique fidelium noverit universitas, qualites anno Incarnationis M... regnante Ottone III, Wernherus comes de Ortiberg ... cenobium Hugeshoven constrixit..." ("Know all of the faithful of Christ and of ourselves, that in the year of the Incarnation 1000... in the reign of Otto III, Werner, count of Ortenbourg... built a monastery at Hugeshoven..") (Nartz op.cit. pp. 126–127). There is some doubt over the authenticity of this diploma.〕 According to the 17th century history of Jean Ruyr, the monastery was built on the site of an earlier structure, a small castle or hunting lodge belonging to the eponymous Hugh or Hugo.〔"Hugon, susnommé le gros ou le grand à cause de sa stature excessive, avait un petit castel, qui s'appelait aussi de ce nom Hugshoffen, auquel lieu et au contour du dit Val on a érigé un monastère de l'ordre de Saint-Benoît" ("Hugh, surnamed the big or the great because of his excessive stature, had a little castle, also called by the name of Hugshoffen, in which place and within the said valley there was built a monastery of the order of Saint Benedict"). Jean Ruyr, op. cit., p. 243〕 Werner and Hugo, who seem in fact to have been co-founders of the monastery, were brothers, sons of Albrecht, and both were buried in the abbey. The abbey was endowed with estates throughout the Villé valley, particularly in Dieffenthal. Theoger, abbot of St. George's Abbey in the Black Forest from 1088 to 1119, introduced the Hirsau Reform, and this spiritual revival brought Honcourt a period of success. In 1473–74 the abbey was occupied and sacked by the Burgundian troops of Charles the Bold, who entered the valley on 20 December 1473, occupied Villé and systematically ravaged the whole surrounding area.〔Reichsland Elsass-Lothringer, tome III, p. 409 - Maurice de Castex: Histoire de la seigneurie Lorraine de Tanviller-en-Alsace, Berger-Levrault, Paris, 1886, pp. 51–52 - Théodore Nartz, ibid. p.178 et suivants〕 In April 1525, during the Peasants' Revolt, the conventual buildings were sacked and burnt, destroying most of the abbey's contents, including the great majority of the library and archives.〔G. Hirschfell S.H.V.V., n°3, 1978, Le Bundschuh et la guerre des Paysans, pp. 51–52〕 Those few documents that were saved, were incorporated into the archives of Andlau Abbey, all of which were destroyed during the French Revolution.〔Bernard Metz, S.H.V.V. , n° 3, 1978 - Notes sur l'histoire d'Urbeis et ses rapports avec Fouchy, p. 115〕 While the peasants were sacking the abbey, a particularly valuable retable, which seems certainly to have been a work of the sculptor Sixtus Schultheiss (d. 1527), was somehow transferred to the church of Villé, where Volcyr de Serouville, secretary to Antoine, Duke of Lorraine, took an interest in it. It was subsequently carried off by the Lotharingians along with a number of other sacred items rescued from the peasants, and its subsequent fate is unknown. Shortly after the abbey was sacked and burnt, the monks dispersed. The last abbot, Paul Voltz, converted to Protestantism and took part in the Strasbourg reform. In 1599 the remains of the abbey premises were sold by the Archdukes of Austria to Andlau Abbey.〔L'abbaye de Honcourt, Société d'histoire du val de Villé,1976, pp. 26–29〕 The transfer was confirmed by Pope Paul V in 1616. In 1782 the abbess of Andlau ordered the demolition of Honcourt, as its upkeep had become too expensive, and nothing now remains. The consequent architectural loss to the region was great, as the buildings were of high interest. Honcourt was a strategic point in the line of entry of Romanesque and Burgundian art into Alsace, between the churches of Saint-Dié and St. Faith of Sélestat. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Honcourt Abbey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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