Signy Monastery
| Signy Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Franceregion Grand Est Ardennes department |
| Lies in the diocese | Reims |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 42 '4 " N , 4 ° 25' 19" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
82 |
| founding year | 1131 |
| Cistercian since | 1135 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1790/1791 |
| Mother monastery | Igny Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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The Signy Abbey (lat. Signiacum ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the French community Signy L'Abbaye , department Ardennes region Grand Est . It is located about 65 kilometers northeast of Reims and about 28 km west of Charleville-Mézières on the edge of the forest of Froidmont.
history
The monastery was founded in 1131 and received its Cistercian founding convent from Igny Monastery in 1135 . So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Wilhelm von Saint-Thierry , who later became the biographer of Bernhard von Clairvaux , who died in 1148, entered the monastery as a simple monk . The estates of the monastery developed rapidly and the monastery founded several granges , including Maimby, Draize, Bray, Rousselois, Chaudion, Chappes, Mésancelle, Lavergny and Écaillère. The monastery operated grain and viticulture as well as cattle breeding there. It was also engaged in metallurgy and slate mining. It built townhouses u. a. in Mézières, Reims , in Huy near Liège not far from the daughter foundation of the Val-St-Lambert monastery . The construction of the monastery church lasted from 1226 to 1514. In 1550 the monastery fell in Kommende . It was besieged and looted by the Calvinists in 1568 and several times during the Thirty Years War , but was then rebuilt. It was disbanded during the French Revolution and then largely canceled.
Buildings and plant
The Cross of Conversations , a seven-meter-high monolith , the monastery building from the 18th century and the guest wing have been preserved. Of the library of almost 4,000 volumes, around 300 have been preserved in Charleville and the Bibliothèque Nationale . Various farm buildings have also been preserved in the area.
literature
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , pp. 117-118.
- Joseph Mathy: Histoire de l'abbaye de Signy. Imprimerie Coulon, Reims 1970.