Berdoues Monastery
| Berdoues Cistercian Abbey | |
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| location |
France Region Okzitanien department of Gers |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 28 '50 " N , 0 ° 24' 34" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
118 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1137 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Morimond Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Gimont |
The Berdoues Monastery (Berdouès; Berdona) was a Cistercian abbey in the commune of Berdoues in the Gers department , Occitania region , in France . It was about four kilometers south of Mirande on the left bank of the Grande Baïse .
history
The abbey, founded in 1137 and populated by monks from the primary abbey of Morimond under the founding abbot Aubert, flourished quickly and acquired considerable property through foundations, on which numerous grangien were built, including those of Artigue, Saint-Elix, Puysségur, La Flourette, Saint -Médard, Angas, Saint-Michel, Taran, Fonfrède, Vitouret, Aujan as well as La Sacristie, L'Infirmerie, Le Pesqué, Jutge and Saint-Clamens. As the daughter-ups went from Berdoues on this side of the Pyrenees , the monastery Gimont and the monastery Eaunes , beyond the Pyrenees, the monastery Valbuena at the Duero , the nunnery Vallbona de les Monges and the Monastery Huerta from. In 1281 the abbey founded the Mirande bastide with the Count of Astarac . The foundation of the Bastide Esparsac also goes back to the abbey. During the French Revolution , the abbey was abolished and then almost completely demolished. Remnants of the cloister scattered around the monastery were acquired by the Parisian art dealer Paul Gouvert for resale to Hermann Göring during World War II and stored in the depot of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg after the war until they were returned in 2003.
Buildings and plant
Three bays of the cloister and various buildings that were renovated in the 17th and 18th centuries have been preserved. The strangers chapel from the end of the 12th century has become a parish church. The Mirande church houses the Berdoues choir stalls. The main altar of the abbey church has found its way into the Saint-Esprit chapel in Mirande.
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. 262.
- Raphaela Averkorn: The Cistercian Abbeys Berdoues and Gimont in their relationship to the lay environment. Remembrance of prayer, conversion and burial. In: Franz Neiske, Dietrich Poeck, Mechthild Sandmann (eds.): Vinculum Societatis. Joachim Wollasch on his 60th birthday. Regio-Verlag Glock and Lutz, Sigmaringendorf 1991, ISBN 3-8235-6090-5 , pp. 1-35.