Aulne Abbey
| Aulne Cistercian Abbey | |
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 Ruins of the Aulne monastery church |
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| location | Belgium Province of Hainaut |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 21 '56.4 " N , 4 ° 19' 54.3" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
273 |
| founding year | 1146 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1794 |
| Mother monastery | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Abbey of Aulne (Alna) is a former monastery not far from Thuin in the Belgian province of Hainaut in the Sambre Valley.
history
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According to tradition, the monastery was founded as a Benedictine monastery around 656 by Landelin von Crespin , who was later canonized after he left the Lobbes Abbey a few kilometers away . He equipped the new monastery with property given to him by the Merovingian Franconian kings. The Benedictines stayed until around 974. After Augustinian canons had settled in the meantime, Aulne was re-established as a daughter monastery of the Cistercians - Clairvaux Primary Abbey in 1147/48 under Abbot Franco de Morvaux on the instructions of Bishop Heinrich II of Liège .
In the 15th century it was sacked during the wars between the Burgundians and the Liège . In the 16th century there were attacks by the Geusen and the French. In the first half of the 18th century the monastery was extensively renovated and expanded, but then dissolved and burned down in the course of the French Revolution around 1794. The library with 40,000 books and 5,000 manuscripts was also destroyed.
Current condition
The ruins of the abbey church with a facade from 1728 and the transept and choir from the 16th century have been preserved. The abbot's house from 1772 to 1778 was renovated in the 19th century and the chapter house in the 18th century.
Web links
literature
- Claude Demoulin: Aulne et son domaine. Claude Demoulin, Landelies, 1980
- Maurice des Ombiaux: L'Abbaye d'Aulne. Éditions de Belgique, 1938
- Louis Cloquet: Les ruins de l'abbaye d'Aulne. Goemaere, 1897
- Louis Cloquet: L'abbaye d'Aulne (Hainaut). Desclée, De Brouwer, 1898