Féniers Monastery
| Féniers Cistercian Abbey | |
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_Feniers_abbaye_ruines_(14).JPG) Ruins of the Féniers monastery |
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| location |
 Franceregion Auvergne Cantal |
| Coordinates: | 45 ° 19 '25 " N , 2 ° 46' 15" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
433 |
| founding year | 1173 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1790 |
| Mother monastery | Aiguebelle Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The monastery Féniers (Vallis honestae, Val-Honnête; Notre-Dame de Féniers) is a former Cistercian abbey in the Cantal in the region Auvergne in France . The monastery is located in the municipality of Condat around 33 km north of Murat .
history
The monastery was probably founded in 1173 by Béraud VII. De Mercœur and occupied by the Aiguebelle monastery (according to other sources, the foundation of the Bellaigue monastery started out). So it belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey of Morimond . Féniers founded the daughter of the monastery Le Bouschet-Vauluisant . At the beginning of the 16th century, the monastery fell in Kommende . It was rebuilt in 1686. It came to an end during the French Revolution in 1790. The facility was largely destroyed by two fires in 1857 and 1872.
Buildings and plant
Ruinous parts of the abbot's house, the southern wing of the cloister and the church with four transept chapels from the end of the 12th and beginning of the 13th century, originally closed by a rectangular choir , have been preserved. A chapel from 1830 houses a statue of the Virgin Mary from the 15th century. A dairy building from the 14th century has been preserved.
literature
- Adolphe de Chalvet de Rochemonteix: Histoire de l'abbaye de Féniers ou du Val-Honnête, en Auvergne. F. Thibaud, Clermond-Ferrand 1882.
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 36.
