Bonlieu-sur-Roubion

Bonlieu-sur-Roubion
region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Drôme
Arrondissement	Nyons
Canton	Dieulefit
Community association	Montélimar agglomeration
Coordinates	44 ° 36 ' N , 4 ° 53' E Coordinates: 44 ° 36 ' N , 4 ° 53' E
height	130-212 m
surface	6.09 km 2
Residents	469 (January 1, 2017)
Population density	77 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code	26160
INSEE code	26052
	; Bonlieu-sur-Roubion - View of the town with the former abbey of Sainte-Anne

Bonlieu-sur-Roubion ( Occitan : identical) is a place and a commune with 469 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Drome region in the southern French region of Auvergne Rhône-Alpes .

location

The place Bonlieu-sur-Roubion is located on the Roubion river in the west of the Drôme department, near the border with the Ardèche department at an altitude of 150 m ; the next larger city, Montélimar , is about 12 kilometers (driving distance) to the southwest.

Population development

year	1800	1851	1901	1954	1999	2013
Residents	149	249	280	180	378	410

The population increase in recent years is mainly due to the proximity to the city of Montélimar and the significantly lower property prices in the countryside.

economy

The inhabitants of the village, which developed around the medieval Bonlieu Abbey, lived for centuries as a self-sufficient living from agriculture (agriculture and cattle breeding); the abbey also needed craftsmen of all kinds. Wine was also grown; the place still has the right to market its grapes through the Appellations Comtés Rhodaniens , Mediterranée and Drôme ; However, it is unclear whether wine will be produced at all. The monks living in the Premonstratensian priory rented rooms to visitors.

history

Anna herself the third

In 1171, Countess Véronique de Marsanne founded the Cistercian Abbey of Sainte-Anne, which flourished in the late Middle Ages. It was destroyed around 1400, the nuns left the monastery and were replaced by monks from the Valcroissant Monastery until it was closed by the French Revolution in 1791. In 1871, Premonstratensian women bought the remaining buildings and renewed religious life in the old monastery walls. In 1994 they were replaced by Premonstratensians who left the monastery in 2014.

Attractions

Of the Romanesque monastery church, only the three apsidial choir area and the transept are largely original; the rest was redesigned in various construction phases - most recently in the 19th century. The church houses a late Gothic polychrome painted statue of Anna the third of the self . The medieval parts of the abbey, including the chapter house , were classified as Monument historique in 1999 .
The remains of a medieval fortification ( motte castrale) were discovered in the municipality .

literature

Gallia Christiana , Vol. 4, Columns 347-348.
Leopold Janauschek: Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus. Vienna 1877, p. LXXVIII sv Bonus-Locus.
Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 422.
Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 340.
Philippe Méry: Abbayes, prieurés et couvents de France. Editions du Crapaud, La Roche-sur-Yon 2013, p. 526.
Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 73 D.

Web links

Commons : Bonlieu-sur-Roubion - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ Bonlieu-sur-Roubion - Viticulture
↑ Abbaye, Bonlieu-sur-Roubion in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

[1] Bonlieu-sur-Roubion - Viticulture

[2] Abbaye, Bonlieu-sur-Roubion in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)