Marmoutier

Marmoutier ( Maursmünster in German) is a common French, located in the department of the the Low-Rhine and the area Alsace.

Geography

Marmoutier is a town of 2400 inhabitants, in the North-West of the Alsace, located between Saverne and Wasselonne and at a little more than 30 kilometers of Strasbourg.

Communes bordering

in north Otterswiller, the North-East Schwenheim, the east Lochwiller, south-east Reutenbourg, the south Singrist, south-west Dimbsthal, the west Thal-Marmoutier, the North-West Gottenhouse

Variations and localities

Sindelsberg
Biegen

History

''' Marmoutier ''' is an old monastery. This monastery was founded as of 589 by Irish monks, Saint Colomban in tête.
After a first fire, the rebuilding is undertaken in 724 under the direction of the Maur abbot who gives him his name Mauri monasterium , the monastery of Mauri. The inhabitants are called there maurimonastériens in reference to this name. The church Abbatiale was devoted in 971 by Erchenbald, bishop of Strasbourg. It is of this last time and the 11th century which date the splendid frontage that one can still admire today.

Administration

Twinning

Demography

Places and monuments

Abbey of Marmoutier (Alsace)
Large historical organ Andre Silbermann of abbey of Marmoutier
Jewish cemetery of Marmoutier
Laundrette of Marmoutier
Alsatian Museum of Marmoutier

Personalities related to the commune

Albert Kahn (1860 - 1940)

See too

Internal bonds

Common of the Low-Rhine
late Antiquity

External bonds

Marmoutier on the site of the national geographical Institute
Marmoutier on the site of INSEE
Marmoutier on the site of Quid
Localization of Marmoutier on a chart of France and communes bordering
Plane on Marmoutier on Mapquest
Visit in photographs of Marmoutier
Biography on Albert Kahn
Marmoutier and its abbey

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