Clairmont Monastery

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Clairmont Cistercian Abbey
Clairmont Monastery
Clairmont Monastery
location FranceFrance France
region Pays de la Loire,
Mayenne department
Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '53 "  N , 0 ° 56' 3"  W Coordinates: 48 ° 5 '53 "  N , 0 ° 56' 3"  W.
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		334
founding year 1152
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1791
Mother monastery Clairvaux Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Fontaine-Daniel monastery

The monastery Clairmont (Clermont; Clarus Mons) is a former Cistercian - Abbey in Mayenne the Region Pays de la Loire in France . The monastery was located in the municipality of Olivet around 14 km west of Laval in the Vicoin valley.

history

The monastery was founded in 1152 after a donation from Guy V of Laval and his mother Emma of England at the instigation of Bernhard von Clairvaux as the daughter of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . It owned, among other things, the Grangie of Gaudinière in Martigné. After a poor history, it was disbanded in 1791 during the French Revolution and turned into an agricultural property. In 1954, a company under private law acquired the then ruinous facility, which it subsequently restored.

Buildings and plant

Ship of the abbey church
Basement of the Konversenbau
The gatehouse

The church, the 60 m long Konversen building (probably the best preserved in France) and the entrance building from the founding time have been preserved. The other buildings date from around 1650 and were built by the architect Langlois. From the cloister only traces remain. The south wing of the enclosure is in ruins. In the church facade there is a Romanesque portal and a round arched long window. The nave of the church, closed in a rectangular shape in the east, with an originally open roof structure, is 65 m long, the transept 40 m. The aisles have come off. The three currently closed side chapels on the east transept wing are - unusually - decorated with frescoes. The nave has large side arcades, each with a window. The graves of the de Laval family, originally from the choir of the monastery church, are located in the old castle of Laval. There is also the gatehouse. The complex was classified as a Monument historique in 1957 and 1987 .

literature

  • H. Blanchot: Clairmont , Zodiaque, La-Pierre-qui-Vire, 1985, 30 pp.
  • Anselme Dimier , Jean Porcher: The Art of the Cistercians in France. Echter, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-429-01026-8 , p. 337.
  • Y. Labbé: L'abbaye de Clermont , Bull. Comm. hist. archéol. Mayenne, 1948-1952, t. LXII, pp. 19-51.
  • Jean-René Ladurée: Clairmont et sa fille, Fontaine-Daniel: deux fondations claravalliennes dans le Bas-Maine , Les cisterciens dans le Maine et dans l'Ouest au Moyen Âge , Ghislain Baury, Vincent Corriol, Emmanuel Johans and Laurent Maillet (eds .): Annales de Bretagne et des Pays de l'Ouest , Vol. 120, Sept. 2013, pp. 135–151.
  • Christophe Marrant: Clairmont - un demi-siècle de ténacité. In: Dossiers d'Archéologie. No. 234, 1998, ISSN  1141-7137 , pp. 42-43.
  • Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , pp. 348-351.
  • Jean-Loup Trassard, Patrice Roy: Notre-Dame de Clairmont. Abbaye cistercienne en Mayenne. Édition Siloë, Laval 1985.

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