Skin crêt
| Haut-Crêt Abbey | |
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 Skin crêt |
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| location |
 Switzerland
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| Coordinates: | 46 ° 33 '3.2 " N , 6 ° 49' 0" E |
| founding year | 1143 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1536 |
Haut-Crêt was a Cistercian abbey in the Swiss canton of Vaud from the 12th to the 16th centuries . Today, there are no remains of either the abbey church or the convent buildings. The designations skin Cret and Hautcrêt are common.
location
The Cistercian Abbey of Haut-Crêt was located in the Haute-Broye, in the municipality of Les Tavernes in the Oron district of the canton of Vaud (since January 1, 2012 part of the merged municipality of Oron ). The former name lives on in what is now the hamlet of Haut Crêt, 2 km south-southwest of the district capital Oron-la-Ville and 15 km east of Lausanne (as the crow flies). The location of the abbey was at 640 m above sea level. M. west of the upper reaches of the Broye , in the Molasse hill country of the higher Waadtländer Mittelland .
history
The area around Haut-Crêt belonged to the bishops of Lausanne in the 12th century. Bishop Guy de Maligny donated part of this property to the abbot of Cherlieu Monastery in France in 1134 so that he could found a Cistercian monastery. Soon after, the construction of the Haut-Crêt Abbey began. Even before the monks were actually instructed on March 14, 1143, the abbey received numerous gifts from wealthy noble families in the neighboring areas. That is why, shortly after it was founded, it already had considerable property, including the churches of Châtillens , Palézieux and Oron . The slopes of the Dézaley in Lavaux , where viticulture was practiced , also belonged to the abbey .
The monks of Haut-Crêt cleared the thickly forested area between the upper Broye and the Jorat , cleared the land and promoted its settlement. In a bull, Pope Alexander III. the Cistercian abbey on November 4, 1179 under his protection. The monastery was called Altacrista at that time , after the Latin words alta crista (high ridge). The name Abbatia de Alcrest and later Altocresth is passed down from 1228 .
An inn was built in front of the Haut-Crêt Abbey in 1342, around which the Les Tavernes settlement later developed. The importance of the Cistercian monastery increased continuously until the 15th century. However, with the looting by the Confederates in 1476 (during the Burgundian Wars ), the decline began. After the conquest of Vaud by Bern in 1536, the monastery was secularized. The abbey estates were combined with the Oron dominion, and the new Bernese lords set up a hospital in the convent buildings. After the Oron rule was converted into a Bernese bailiwick in 1557, the buildings were no longer used, which is why they soon fell into disrepair. The remaining stone material was gradually removed and used to build farmhouses.
Web links
- Alexandre Pahud: skin crêt. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .