Grandselve Monastery
| Grandselve Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Choir stalls |
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| location |
 FranceRegion Okzitanien Tarn-et-Garonne |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 51 '22 " N , 1 ° 8' 17" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
203 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1145 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Clairvaux Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Fontfroide Monastery (1146) |
The Grandselve Abbey ( Grandis silva ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the town of Bouillac in Tarn-et-Garonne in the region Occitania in France . It was northwest of Toulouse and about 14 km east of Beaumont-de-Lomagne .
history
The monastery, initially dependent on the Cadouin Abbey, was founded by Géraud de Salles as a Benedictine monastery in 1113/4 and joined the Cistercian order under Abbot Bertrand I in 1145 as a daughter monastery of the Clairvaux primary abbey and quickly became one of the wealthiest monasteries in the south Of France. The church, which was probably started at the end of the 12th century and consecrated in 1253, was over 100 m long and 20 m wide. The possessions are said to have amounted to over 20,000 hectares and were divided into 25 grangia . In 1281 the abbey founded the Collège de Saint-Bernard in Toulouse. His filiation included the monasteries Fontfroide , Calers (1147), Candeil and Santes Creus in Spain (both 1150). The decline of the monastery began in the 14th century. In the Hundred Years War it sided with France; therefore, the two houses it owned in Bordeaux were completely destroyed. The monks had to retreat to a house in the bastide of Grenade . In 1476 it fell into the coming years . In the Huguenot Wars , the abbey was not affected, but some grangia were devastated. In 1722 the monastery income was divided between the abbot's and the convent's cafeteria. In 1790 there were only 16 monks left in the monastery, which was forcibly dissolved in the French Revolution in March 1791 and sold in August 1791 and demolished from 1793.
Buildings and plant
From the monastery, a complex that corresponded to the Bernardine plan (plan bernhardin) (enclosure south - left - of the cross-shaped church with a straight east end), only the gate house has survived. Floor tiles of the monastery were discovered on site around 1970.
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. 280.