Beaubec Monastery
| Beaubec Monastery | |
|---|---|
 View of Beaubec Abbey (print from 1696) |
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| location |
 France
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| Lies in the diocese | Archdiocese of Rouen |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ N , 1 ° 30 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
239 |
| founding year | 1127 |
| Cistercian since | 1148 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1790 |
| Mother monastery | Savigny Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
The Beaubec Monastery (Bellus-Beccus; Saint-Laurent de Beaubec) is a former Cistercian abbey in France .
location
The former abbey is located in the commune of Beaubec-la-Rosière in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region , around 8 km northwest of Forges-les-Eaux near the sources of the Epte , Andelle and Béthune .
history
Founded in 1127 by Hughues II de Gournay, the monastery belonged to the Congregation of Savigny . With this it came to the Cistercian Order in 1148 and submitted to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Within a century, this first daughter monastery of Savigny became the mother monastery of nine other monasteries. The monastery housed the relics of St. Helier , who was martyred on the island of Jersey in the 6th century. It was destroyed by fire in 1383, but rebuilt in 1450. In 1562 it was devastated again. Another reconstruction took place in the 18th century. During the French Revolution in 1790 the abbey was dissolved, sold and then demolished.
Buildings and plant
Besides the St. Ursula Chapel, consecrated in 1266 and restored in 1780, only remnants of the infirmary , agriculture (with a pigeon house from the 16th century) and the parlatorium have been preserved. In Saint-Arnoult ( Département Oise ) there is still a rural property known as the Prieuré, grouped around a large courtyard, which initially belonged to the Abbey of Saint-Germer-de-Fly , then probably to the Froidmont monastery and later to the Beaubec monastery, but Most of it burned down in 1976. The village of Criquiers takes the place of a grangie.
literature
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 329.