Feuillantenkloster Lyon

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The Feuillanten monastery Lyon was a monastery of the Feuillanten in the district La Croix-Rousse in Lyon from 1619 to 1791 .

history

The Feuillants, which emerged from the Cistercian order in the 16th century , were regarded by Cîteaux as a foreign order from 1605 and in their heyday comprised 31 monasteries in France, founded in Lyon in 1619 in the area of ​​today's Grande Rue des Feuillants and Petite Rue des Feuillants ( in the 4th arrondissement ) the monastery of Saint-Charles , the church building was completed in 1642 and which received the royal license in 1664. In 1791 the French Revolution led to the dissolution and dismantling of the monastery. Structural remains (arcades, gates, an internal staircase) are present.

literature

  • Adrien Bostmambrun: Guide toristique. Couvents et abbayes de Lyon . Lyon 2014, p. 25.
  • Immo Eberl : The Cistercians . Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2007, pp. 416–417.
  • Jean-Baptiste Martin: Histoire des églises et chapelles de Lyon . Vol. II. H. Lardanchet, Lyon 1908, pp. 211-215.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Strasbourg 2012, p. 349.

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Coordinates: 45 ° 46 ′ 11 "  N , 4 ° 50 ′ 13"  E