Chapelle Saint-Jacques de l'abbaye de Niedermunster

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The chapel Saint-Jacques de Saint-Nabor (or Hermitage Saint-Jacques) was a former dependency of the abbey Sainte-Marie de Niedermunster, and is located in the territory of the commune of Saint-Nabor, France.

Generalities: The chapel is located a few hundred meters from the abbey of Sainte-Marie de Niedermunster, of which it was an outbuilding, halfway between Niedermunster and Hohenbourg. It is raised on an artificial terten consolidated by a dry stone enclosure. It is located on the territory of the commune of Saint-Nabor, in the department of Bas-Rhin, in the Grand Est region of France. In ruins, the chapel has in its center the "camel rock", two porphyres of 390 million years which were certainly the object of cults in remote times.

The current remains date back to the 12th century, but some legends trace the foundation of the chapel back to the 9th century. The legend tells us that the Count of Burgundy, Hugues III, who had a fragment of the Holy Cross, set him in a cross and hung him on the neck of a camel. He decreed that the relic would be venerated at the place where the camel would stop...