Almanarre Monastery

The Almanarre monastery (also: Lamanarre or La Manarre , from the 15th century St Bernard ) was a French monastery of the Cistercians near (and later in) Hyères in the Var department from 1221 to 1793 .

history

The Benedictine priory Almanarre (Arabic "lighthouse"), built on the ruins of the ancient settlement of Olbia ( Olbia de Provence ) on the seashore south of Hyères, was under the monastery of Saint Gervais in Fos-sur-Mer , was closed in 1220 by the Pope and in 1221 by the monastery Gémenos- settled nunnery of Saint Pierre de l'Almanarre , which was accepted into the Cistercian order in 1223 and subordinated to the Abbey of Le Thoronet . For their greater security, the nuns moved to the neighboring city of Hyères in the 15th century and lived in the Saint-Bernard monastery (also Château St Bernard ) below the castle, where the Villa Noailles now stands , until it was dissolved by the French Revolution in 1793 . Almanarre is archaeologically developed.

literature

• Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus. Vienna 1877, p. LXIII.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 326.

Web links

• Almanarre / Lamanarre in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
• Official site for the monastery, French
• Urban exhibition dossier, 2013, 28 pages, French, illustrated
• Abbey history, French, with list of abbesses
• Scientific article on the excavations: David Ollivier, Michel Pasqualini, Paul Turc, Bertrand Mafart and Marianne Aubry: "Abbatia Sancti Petri de Almanarra. L'abbaye Saint-Pierre de l'Almanarre à Hyères (Var)". In: Archéologie du Midi médiéval 22, 2004, pp. 3–25

Coordinates: 43 ° 4 ′ 52.2 "  N , 6 ° 7 ′ 22.2"  E