Poulangy Abbey

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Plan of the former abbey (1789)

The Poulangy Abbey (also: Poulangey or Poullengy ) in Poulangy in the canton of Nogent in the Haute-Marne department, which was destroyed during the French Revolution , had been a French women's convent since the 11th century , mostly under the direction of Benedictine nuns ; however, from 1147 to 1233 it was a Cistercian monastery.

history

Founded in the 11th century, the Benedictine convent of Saint-Pierre in Poulangy, east of Chaumont , was founded in 1147 by Godefroy de la Rochetaillée, the Bishop of Langres , who was a relative of St. Bernard of Clairvaux , Cistercian and first abbot of the Fontenay monastery , converted into a Cistercian convent through the appointment of Abbess Adeline, Bernhard's niece; but it returned to its previous status in 1243 and existed as Abbaye Royale de Poulangy until it was dissolved by the French Revolution. The mystic Aszelina von Boulancourt lived temporarily in Poulangy.

architecture

The abbey was surrounded by a wall, along which mostly monastery and farm buildings stood; the monastery gardens were also located here. The small, single-nave abbey church stood in the middle of the complex; to the south the chapter house (salle capitulaire) and the cloister (cloître) followed. The largest building within the wall was the baroque abbess's palace, behind which there was a private garden.

literature

  • Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.) Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui . Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001 (files from a 1998 colloquium).
  • Benoit Chauvin: Poulangy. Abbaye cistercienne? In: Cahiers Haut-Marnais . Pp. 236-237, 2004.
  • Charles Lorain: Notice sur l'abbaye royale de Poulangy . Pikiakos, Poulangy 1990 (28 pages, text from 1905).
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 140.

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Coordinates: 48 ° 2 ′ 32.6 ″  N , 5 ° 15 ′ 22.6 ″  E