La Grâce-Dieu Monastery (Franche-Comté)
| Cistercian Abbey of La Grâce-Dieu (Franche-Comté) | |
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 Trappist Abbey of La Grâce-Dieu |
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| location | France region Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, Doubs department |
| Lies in the diocese | Archdiocese of Besançon |
| Coordinates: | 47 ° 14 '59 " N , 6 ° 20' 54" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
140 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1139 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1790 1844–1909 Trappists since 1927 Trappist women |
| Year of repopulation | 1927 |
| Year of re-dissolution | 2008 |
| Mother monastery | La Charité Monastery (Franche-Comté) |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
| Congregation | (Trappists) |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The monastery of La Grâce-Dieu (lat. Abbatia BM de Gratia Dei ) is a former Trappist - abbey , former Trappist -Abtei and former Cistercian abbey in the town of Chaux-lès-Passavant in Doubs region Bourgogne Franche-Comté in France . It is located around 30 km east of Besançon in the Audeux Valley . (Not to be confused with the monasteries of La Grâce-Dieu (Aunis) in the Charente-Maritime department and Grace Dieu Abbey in Wales!)
history
Cistercians
In 1139 the monastery was founded at the instigation of Richard de Montfaucon and settled with monks who came from the monastery La Charité (Franche-Comté) , a subsidiary of Bellevaux monastery from the filiation of the Morimond primary abbey . The monastery flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries. However, the climatic conditions were detrimental to agriculture. However, the monastery owned the farms of le Mont, Fallondans, Rentessert, Chaux, Aissey and Morchamps as well as the mills of l'Audeux and Orsans and, since the 18th century, the blast furnace of Greuse. In 1367 the monastery was looted and set on fire and was damaged in the Burgundian Wars in 1475 and devastated by the Swedes in the 17th century in the Ten Years' War. In 1790 the monks left the monastery, which was then sold by the state. A blast furnace was then installed in the choir of the church.
Trappists
In 1844 it was acquired by the Trappists from Val-Sainte-Marie , who renovated the monastery buildings and the church and demolished the furnace; they stayed until 1909. The convent founded in 1817 in the Bellevaux monastery moved to the Tamié monastery , where it still exists today.
Trappist women
The nuns moved (with the help of Archbishop Césaire Mathieu) from the Port Royal de Paris monastery to Besançon (rue Chapitre), who called themselves "Bernardines of the Holy Sacrament" ( Bernardines du Saint Sacrement ) and their monastery was named Notre-Dame de la Consolation (Maria Trost), were accepted into the Cistercian order of the Strict Observance ( Trappistinnen ) in 1921 and in 1927 they moved into the La Grâce-Dieu monastery, where they did their handicrafts (honey and jam production, tailoring for children's clothing) and hosted guests. In 2008 they moved to the Igny Monastery , which also took in the nuns of the Belval and Ubexy Abbeys and changed its name to Abbaye du Val d'Igny .
Buildings and plant
The transitional style church, restored in the 19th century and again in 1997, has two Romanesque windows. The cloister is north (left) of the church.
literature
- René Locatelli, François Lassus: L'abbaye cistercienne de Notre-Dame de la Grâce-Dieu. 1139–1989 (= Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon. Vol. 392 = Annales littéraires de l'Université de Besançon. Cahiers d'études comtoises. Vol. 392, 43). Les Belles-Lettres, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-251-60392-1 .
- Bernard Peugniez : Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 145.
- Marie-Dominique Seguin: De Port-Royal à la Grace-Dieu et au-delà ... , in: Liens cisterciens 22, 2012, pp. 3–10.