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    Hornbach Abbey (German: Kloster Hornbach) is a former monastery founded around 741 in the historic town of Gamundias (today Hornbach) by Saint Pirmin,...
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    after they founded Hornbach Abbey in the Bliesgau around 750. Hornbach remained their proprietary monastery and royal grants to the abbey established their...
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    to Südwestpfalz. The first mention of "Pirminiseusna", a colony of Hornbach Abbey, dates from 860. The name derives from St. Pirminius, the founder of...
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  • Frederick was married to Gisela of Lorraine, who brought possessions around Hornbach Abbey into the marriage. They had three children: Agnes, married c. 1132 to...
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    Heidelberg; this more than doubled his territory. In 1558, he dissolved Hornbach Abbey and took its territory and half the County of Molsheim. In 1559, the...
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    it was built in the late 10th or early 11th century by an abbot of Hornbach Abbey, initially as a wooden castle. In the Salian era (11th century) it was...
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  • during the Merovingian period, between the years c. 500 and c. 750. The abbeys aren't 'Merovingian' as such, although there are quite a few monasteries...
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    English missionaries in the 8th century and came into the possession of Hornbach Abbey in the Rhineland. In the Thirty Years' War, it came into the possession...
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    relay: in the Hornbach Sacramentary the scribe presents the book to his abbot, who presents it to St Pirmin, founder of Hornbach Abbey, who presents it...
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    in the 9th century in connection with the settlement arrangements of Hornbach Abbey, to whom the hitherto imperial estate had probably been gifted by the...
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