Sorèze Abbey

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Former monastery building with a bell tower
chapel

The former Benedictine abbey and monastery school in Sorèze is now a museum for picture weaving and an event location. The bell tower from the 13th century and the preserved monastery buildings have been classified as Monument historique since 1879 and 1988 respectively .

history

The Abbey Sorèze was 753 to 1682 a convent of Benedictine in Sorèze , in the Tarn in France . From 1682 to 1776 the buildings served as a college and from 1776 to 1793 as the Royal Military School . In 1854 the Dominican Henri Lacordaire established a monastery school again, which lasted until 1991. Since 2015, the buildings have housed a museum for the carpet art of the 20th century. It bears the name Musée Dom Robert , after the important picture maker Guy de Chaunac-Lanzac (1907–1997), whose stage name Dom Robert has been his religious name since 1930 (as a Benedictine in the neighboring monastery En-Calcat ).

literature

  • Michel Demelin: Sorèze au coeur du Languedoc. Une histoire dans l'Histoire. Talaïa, Perpignan 2004.
  • Marie-Odile Munier: Au pied de la montagne noire, Sorèze. Une abbaye, une école. Siloë, Laval 1999.
  • Marie-Odile Munier: Sorèze, une abbaye bénédictine et une école, un des joyaux du patrimoine de Midi-Pyrénées. Presses du Center Universitaire Champollion, Toulouse 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monastery building in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ↑ Bell tower in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

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Coordinates: 43 ° 27 '7.2 "  N , 2 ° 4' 6.1"  E