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Encyclopedia Britannica



CORVEY

This article appears in Volume V07, Page 210 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: COR-CRE
CORVEY , a place in the Prussian province of Westphalia, on the
Weser
 , a mile north of the town of Hoxter, with which it communicates by an avenue of lime trees. During the middle ages it was famous for its
great
 
Benedictine
  abbey, which was founded and endowed by the emperor Louis the Pious about 820, and received its name from having been first occupied by a
body
  of monks coming from
Corbie
  in Picardy. The bones of St Vitus, the patron saint of Saxony, were removed thither _ according to legend in 836, but apart from this attraction, Corvey became the centre of Christianity in Saxony and a nursery of classical studies. The abbot was a prince of the Empire, and Corvey was made a bishopric in 1783. In 1803 the abbey was secularized, in 1815 its lands were given to Prussia, and in 1822 they were bestowed on
Victor
  Amadeus, landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, by whom they were bequeathed, in 1834, to Prince
Victor
  of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, duke of Ratibor. The abbey, which is now used as a residence, possesses a magnificent library of 150,000 volumes especially
rich
  in old illustrated works, though the ancient collection due to the literary enthusiasm of the Benedictines is no longer extant. Here in 1517 the manuscript of the five first books of the Annals of Tacitus was discovered. Here Widukind wrote his Res gestae Saxonicae. Here, also, the librarian and poet
Hoffmann
  von Fallersleben lived and worked. The Annales Corbejenses 6481148 of the monks can be read in the Monumenta Germaniae historica, Band iii. The Chronicon Corbejense, published by A. C. Wedekind in 1823, has been declared by S. Hirsch and
Waitz
  (Kritisehe Prufung, Berlin, 1839) to be a forgery.
See P. Wigand, Geschichte der Abtei Korvey (Hoxter, 1819) ; and M. Meyer, Zur dltern Geschichte Corveys and HOxters (Paderborn, 1893).


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