Chartreuse de Basseville
The location of the Charterhouse in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region . |
The Chartreuse Notre-Dame du Val Saint-Jean de Basseville is a former Carthusian monastery . It is located in the French commune of Pousseaux , in the Nièvre department of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region . The monastery is located in the valley of the River Yonne on the banks of the Canal du Nivernais .
history
The Charterhouse was founded in 1328. The monastery church was consecrated to the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist in 1331 . In the first decades of its existence, the Charterhouse was able to significantly expand its land holdings in the region around Clamecy by acquiring and donating goods . The agriculturally usable area was expanded by extensive clearing.
From the second half of the 14th century until 1569, the monastery was subjected to several attacks and looting, for example during the Hundred Years War when English troops moved through in 1360 and again in 1430 by marauding gangs. The Charterhouse was devastated during the Huguenot Wars in 1569. A monastery fire caused considerable damage in 1693.
Already in the first phase of the French Revolution , the Charterhouse was looted in 1789, the monks expelled and the buildings declared national property. The inventory of the monastery was sold. The former Basseville Charterhouse has been converted into an agricultural estate and a winery . The monastery church served as a wine press house .
Todays use
Today the facility is privately owned and used as a farm. The entrance portal flanked by towers and the former refectory from the 16th century have been preserved. The monastery buildings have been classified by the French Ministry of Culture as Monument historique ('historical monument') since 1927 . Excavation work is currently being carried out by the Institut national de recherches archéologiques ( INRAP ) on the monastery grounds (as of 2016).
With support from the regional administration of Burgundy, a medieval monastery garden was laid out in 2010 . Old fruit trees, flowers for honey production , vegetables, medicinal plants , aromatic plants and plants for dye production offer an overview of the useful plants cultivated by the monks in the Middle Ages.
In 2011 the association " Les Amis de la Chartreuse de Basseville " was founded to promote the restoration of buildings and gardens as well as cultural and tourist development. The site is open to the public in the summer months.
literature
- Jean-Pierre Aniel: Les maisons de chartreux: des origines à la chartreuse de Pavie , Droz, Geneva 1983, ISBN 978-2-600-04617-6
- Victor Augustin Gueneau: Cartulaire de la Chartreuse de Basseville (Nièvre) , Motte, Issoudun 1893
Web links
- Chartreuse de Basseville website (French), accessed October 9, 2016
- Chartreuse de Basseville in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- The Chartreuse de Basseville garden on parcsetjardins-bourgogne.com (French), accessed October 9, 2016
Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 49 ″ N , 3 ° 30 ′ 51 ″ E