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St. Blaise’s Abbey, Germany is located in the Black Forest mountainous area in Baden-Wurttemberg in the southwest of the country. The St. Blaise’s Abbey, Germany is also known as the Kloster St. Blaisien in German. The early history of the St. Blaise’s Abbey is obscure. It was supposedly said to be preceded by the Rheinau Abbey, which was called the “white cell” but this source is unclear. On June 8, 1065, the St. Blaise’s Abbey, Germany received a grant of immunity from Henry IV, despite having links with the family of the anti-king Rudolf of Rheinfelden. However, during the course of the 12th century, the monks of the St. Blaise’s Abbey focused on acquiring, managing and exploiting their substantial estates. The original vogtei or protective lordship of the Bishops of Basle was withdrawn by a charter issued by Henry V in 1125. However, from the mid 13th century, the vogte were the Habsburgs which brought about an Austrian influence. However, ties to the Empire remained. In the 17th century, the abbots derived their status from the Holy Roman Empire. In the year 1806, the St. Blaise’s Abbey was dissolved due to secularization. The monks found their way to the St. Paul’s Abbey in Austria where they settled in 1809. Since 1934, the buildings have been occupied by the Jesuit College, the Kolleg St. Blasius. The abbey church which was burnt down in the year 1768 was rebuilt as a Baroque round church with a dome of 46 m in length and 63 m in height. It is now known as the Dom St. Blasius or St. Blaise’s Cathedral. It is so called because of its size and splendor, and not because it is a cathedral in an ecclesiastical or administrative sense of the term. There was a damage done to the abbey by the fire of 1874, which was remedied in 1980.
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