Couvent des Cordeliers (Thons)
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The Couvent des Cordeliers in the French community of Les Thons is a former monastery of the Franciscan order founded in the 15th century . It is located in the southwest of the Vosges department in the Grand Est region .
history
The monastery was founded in 1452 at the request of Guillaume de Saint-Loup and his wife Jeanne de Choiseul with the support of Duke John II of Lorraine . The Order of Minorites from Dole received the approval of Pope Nicholas V in 1451 for the construction in the district of Petit-Thon, at the time on the border with the diocese of Besançon .
The monastery church was consecrated in 1483 under the name Notre-Dame-des-Neiges. The Haus du Châtelet , which had Thons Castle built at the beginning of the 17th century , had a chapel here for the reception of family funerals .
The monastery's income consisted of foundations , leases , sacraments of penance , the sale of products from the monastery garden, alms collected in the sacristy and donations from local landlords (Mathieu de Saint-Loup 1476, Antoine de Monthureux 1493–1496, Louis de Faucogney 1504, Huet du Châtelet 1518, Erard du Châtelet from 1590 to 1662 ...). The expenses were mainly used for the maintenance and repair of the monastery and its possessions, as well as for feeding the friars, for laundry and for traveling. The accounting ended on January 15, 1791.
Like the remaining 283 monasteries that the Franciscans owned in France, the Monastery of Thons closed its doors in 1790 as a result of the events of the French Revolution . At that time it housed only four members of the order and one lay brother , whose headmaster was Father Claude Laillet. The monastery was accepted into the Église constitutionnelle without major difficulties . In 1791 all buildings and monastery objects went on sale.
The Notre-Dame-des-neiges church has been a classified monument ( Monument historique classé ) since December 15, 1980 , the rest of the monastery has been a registered monument since June 20, 1945 (Monument historique inscrit ).
The Couvent des Cordeliers is now the best preserved Franciscan monastery in north-eastern France. It is privately owned and houses a Vosges specialty restaurant and a museum. You can visit the chapel, a restored monk's cell , a building on the orders of King Louis XV. built prison, the cloister , the Saint-François fountain and the refectory . There are both permanent exhibitions (objects from monastic life, clothing, old machines and tools, panels depicting the life of the monastery brothers) and temporary exhibitions by local artists.
Since 2009, the monastery church and part of the building that housed the friars' accommodations have been owned by the Saône Lorraine Association, chaired by Jean-François Michel.
See also
Web links
- Official website (French)
Individual evidence
- ^ Archives Départementales Des Vosges. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; Retrieved March 19, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Entry no. PA00107304 in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 47 ° 59 ′ 39 ″ N , 5 ° 53 ′ 27 ″ E