La Fille-Dieu Abbey
| La Fille-Dieu Abbey Abbaye de la Fille-Dieu |
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 La Fille-Dieu Cistercian Abbey |
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| place | Romont FR | |
| Construction year | from 14th century | |
| Coordinates | 560 915 / 172314 | |
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The Abbey of La Fille-Dieu has been a monastery since the 13th century, first of the Cistercian women , and since 1906 of the Trappist women in Romont , canton Friborg in Switzerland .
history
From small Benedictine beginnings since 1265 on the Glâne river , a Cistercian priory developed in 1268 , which was elevated to an abbey in 1350 . The monastery was first under the supervision of the Haut-Crêt Abbey , from 1593 to 1848 of the Hauterive Monastery , then it was directly subordinate to the Pope. Stricter observance was introduced in the first half of the 17th century . The efforts to integrate into the Cistercian Order of Stricter Observance (Trappistinnen), begun in 1878, were finally successful in 1906. It was initially supervised by Oelenberg Abbey , and from 1920 onwards Mont des Cats Monastery . From 1993 to 1996 the monastery church was renovated and provided with stained glass windows by Brian Clarke .
Abbesses since 1883
- 1883-1919: Lutgarde Menétrey
- 1919–1934: Marie-Gabriel Rime
- 1934–1961: Lutgarde Fasel (* 1882)
- 1961–1974: Regina Chavaillaz
- 1975-1999: Hortense Berthet
- since 1999: Marie-Claire Pauchard
literature
- Alicia Scarcez: Liturgie et musique à l'abbaye cistercienne Notre-Dame de la Fille-Dieu (Romont). Histoire et catalog des sources de sept siècles de vie chorale. Academic Press, Friborg 2015 ( Spicilegii Friburgensis subsidia, vol. 25).
- Berthold Bayer: Fille-Dieu. In: Sebastian Brunner : A Cistercian book. History and description of the existing and citation of the repealed Cistercian pencils in Austria-Hungary, Germany and Switzerland. Woerl, Würzburg 1881, p. 733.
- Bernard Peugniez : Guide-Routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Strasbourg 2012, pp. 622–623.
Web links
- Kathrin Utz Tremp : Fille-Dieu, la. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- La Fille-Dieu Abbey website
- Page of the abbey in the homepage of the Trappists, English
- Page of the abbey in the Cistopedia, with literature
- Pages about the renovation of the abbey
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry by Hortense Berthet OCSO in Biographia Cisterciensis, accessed on February 20, 2017