Clairmarais Monastery

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Clairmarais Cistercian Abbey
Remains of the cloister and dormitory
Remains of the cloister and dormitory
location FranceFrance France
Region Hauts-de-France
Pas-de-Calais
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 7 "  N , 2 ° 18 ′ 19"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 7 "  N , 2 ° 18 ′ 19"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		145
founding year 1140
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1791?
Mother monastery Clairvaux Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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The Clairmarais Monastery (Clarus Mariscus) is a former Cistercian abbey in the commune of Clairmarais in the Pas-de-Calais department , Hauts-de-France , in France , around 4 km northeast of Saint-Omer in the marshland of the Marais east of the Aa river .

Edmond Tirant, Cistercian Abbot of Clairmarais (oil painting c. 1770)

history

The monastery was in 1140 by the Count of Flanders Thierry, Count of Flanders and his wife Sibylle of Anjou donated and the Branch Clairvaux settled whose filiation it belonged. The facility was built according to the plans of Geoffroy d'Ainay. The church was built in the Gothic style and its construction lasted over three centuries. The monastery owned several grangs , including the Klostergrangie and the Grangien Neuville, Furnes, Beaumont, Enne, Leulinghem, Maninghem-au-Mont, Muncq-Nieurlet, Rihoult, Loo et Beauloo, Ostreville, Antin, Monchy-Cayeux, FiefsQuevraussart, Livossart, Laires, Bomy, Beaumetz-lès-Aire, Fevin, Prés de Dixmude. During the French Revolution , the monastery came to an end and was almost completely destroyed as a result.

preserved agricultural buildings of the abbey

Buildings and plant

The agricultural buildings have been preserved, including a barn over 100 meters long and the pigeon house from 1731. The entrance area and the foreign chapel (partly inscribed as a monument historique ) are partly preserved . Only small remains of the buildings of the enclosure have survived, namely a part of the cloister with the wall of the dormitory above . The church was completely removed in 1802.

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