- Hasungen Abbey
Hasungen Abbey (Kloster Hasungen) was a monastery of the
Benedictine Order located atBurghasungen , now a part ofZierenberg inHesse inGermany .The site is at the top of a 480 metre high
basalt mountain, the Hasunger Berg. In1074 a monastery was built, on the authority ofSiegfried I, Archbishop of Mainz , over the grave of the hermitHeimerad (d.1019 ), who had had a little chapel and hermitage here.The historian
Lambert of Hersfeld (d. circa 1088) was possibly abbot of Hasungen towards the end of his life.The monastery existed until the
Reformation , introduced in Hesse in1527 byPhilipp I of Hesse . Until then the abbey had been a centre of pilgrimage because of Heimerad, commonly venerated as a saint.After the Reformation the buildings fell into ruins, except for the tower of the abbey church, which however in
1876 a bolt of lightning struck and destroyed. Now only a few stones remain.External links
*de icon [http://www.kloster-hasungen.de Hasungen Abbey Website]
*de icon [http://www.burghasungen.de Burghasungen Website]
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