Boschaud monastery
| Boschaud Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
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| location |
 Franceregion Nouvelle-Aquitaine Department Dordogne |
| Coordinates: | 45 ° 25 '21 " N , 0 ° 43' 55" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
383 |
| founding year | 1163 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Châtillon Monastery ? |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Boschaud monastery ( Boscum Cavum ) is a former Cistercian abbey in what is now the municipality of Villars in the Dordogne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in France .
etymology
The place name Boschaud is derived from the Latin boscum cavum meaning “cleared forest” ( boscum = “bush”, “small forest” and cavus = “empty”, “hollowed out”). The former monastery can still be found today in a clearing in the woods between Villars and Quinsac .
geography
Today's abbey ruin is located in the still relatively unspoilt forest around 15 km northwest of Brantôme en Périgord or 2 km west of Villars near the hamlet of Boschaud on a ridge around 175 m above sea level. d. It can be reached via a communal road, which branches off the D 98 (Villars-Quinsac) to the left shortly after the center of Villars and then follows a dry valley that extends north-west 1.5 kilometers upwards. After crossing a forest, a larger clearing opens with the monastery and the associated hamlet. The road then reaches the ridge line at a height of around 200 meters and there again joins the D 98, which then descends to Quinsac. The monastery was built on relocated river gravel from the Pliocene or Pleistocene , but the building blocks - predominantly white Rudist limestone from Angoumia ( Turonium ) - first had to be sawn out by hand in quarries further away and then transported.
history
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The monastery was founded in 1145 by Géraud de Salles on the site of an older hermitage and joined the Cistercian order in 1163 - according to unoccupied information as a subsidiary of the monastery of Châtillon in Lorraine . In any case, it belonged to the filiation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . Its economic situation is said to have never been brilliant. However, it owned the Grangien Riocaud and Saint-Jean-de-la-Lande and a priory in La Chapelle-Saint-Robert and mills. It was besieged and looted in the 14th century. It also suffered in the Hundred Years War . The subordination to the Coming accelerated its decline. It was sold in the French Revolution in 1791 and served as a barn, home and quarry. It was not until 1950 that it was classified as a monument historique . The monastery is maintained by the Club du Vieux Manoir.
Buildings and plant
Part of the church in the form of a Latin cross, which was built between 1154 and 1159, before joining the Cistercian order, has been preserved. The crossing has a dome , the vaults of the transept and the chapels have been almost completely renewed on the inside - but concreted over on the outside. The nave was also originally vaulted (probably unique in medieval Cistercian architecture) by domes resting on pendentives . The monk's building is almost completely preserved, but has lost its roof. The chapter house had a wooden flat ceiling. It opens to the cloister with a pointed arched portal flanked on both sides by twin windows. The parlatorium has a door to the cloister and one to the garden.
Cloister
Part of the ruin overgrown by scrub
Choir of the church
literature
- Club du vieux manoir (France): Boschaud, abbaye cistercienne (= Club du vieux manoir . Band 9 ). Nouvelles éditions latines, Paris 1978, ISBN 2-7233-0047-1 .
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 18.
- Jean Secret: Promenades en Périgord roman. Nouvelle édition révisée et mise à jour. Éditions Zodiaque, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-7369-0283-1 , p. 24.
