Marcheroux Abbey
The Marcheroux Abbey (Saint-Nicolas-de-Marcheroux; Marchasium Radulphi) is a former Premonstratensian abbey in the district of Beaumont-les-Nonains in the commune of Les Hauts Talican south of Beauvais in Picardy in France . The complex has been registered as a monument historique since 1995 .
history
In 1122 Ulric, Companion of St. Norbert von Xanten , the founder of the Premonstratensian Order, established a community in Jouy-la-Grange that was called Saint-Nicolas-en-Thelle. In 1145 the landlord donated Ansculphe de Sénots in Marcheroux Land, just under five kilometers away, to which the abbey was moved a short time later. In 1147 Pope Eugene III confirmed . The Foundation. The monastery was subordinated to the Abbey of Saint-Josse de Dommartin in Tortefontaine (today in the Pas-de-Calais department ). Ansculphe de Sénots also donated the Beaumont court, where a nunnery was built.
Around 1180, Marcheroux established the Abbecourt daughter monastery (Notre-Dame d'Abbecourt; Alba Curia) in what is now the Yvelines department . Marcheroux never got rich and suffered multiple destruction and looting. In 1536 a new abbey church was consecrated. This collapsed in 1615.
In the 17th century the abbey joined a congregation that wanted to restore the order's original austerity. In 1727 it fell into the coming years . At the time of the French Revolution there were only seven monks left. In 1791 the monastery was closed and its goods were sold. In the 19th century, the abbey church, the vaults of which were destroyed, was used as a barn.
Buildings and plant
The abbey church preserves part of the choir and the apses from the 13th century. The nave and facade date from the building from 1710. The convent building from the 17th century and the portal from the 18th century stand upright.
Some of the furnishings and fittings in the abbey church found their way into churches in the area, such as the parish churches of La Houssoye and Montjavoult .
literature
- A. Sabatier: Abbaye de Marcheroux de l'ordre des Prémontrés et de la filiation de Saint-Josse-aux-Bois ou Dommartin, in: Mémoires de la Société académique d'archéologie, sciences et arts du département de l'Oise, vol 6 (1865), pp. 614-623.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ancienne abbaye de Marcheroux in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
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Coordinates: 49 ° 18 ′ 20 ″ N , 2 ° 1 ′ 42 ″ E