La Joie Monastery (Nemours)
| La Joie Cistercian Convent | |
|---|---|
| location |
 France Seine-et-Marne department |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 15 '37 " N , 2 ° 41' 39" E |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1231 |
| Cistercian since | 1236 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
The monastery La Joie (Abbaye Royale de Notre Dame de la Joie-lès-Nemours; Gaudium ) was a Cistercian abbey in the Loing valley in the municipality of Saint-Pierre-lès-Nemours .
history
The monastery was founded in 1231 by Philip II of Nemours and joined the Cistercian order in 1236. The unfavorable situation, a fire in 1747, the system of Loingkanals in the 18th century and led to the decline of the merger with other monasteries ( monastery of Mont-Notre-Dame , Kloster Braie , most recently the abbey Villiers-aux-Nonnains ) under the name Abbaye de Villiers-La Joye led. The buildings were sold in 1777, while the rest of the property remained with the Order until the French Revolution .
investment
The facility was destroyed after 1777. Only the monastery wall and a ruinous chapel from 1778 are preserved.
literature
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien , 2nd ed., Editions Gaud, Moisenay, p. 170, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 .
- Christine Garmy: Le déclin de l'abbaye de La Joye au XVIIIe siècle Paris Île-de-France t. 48.
- Stein: La fin de l'abbaye de la Joye , in: Annales du Gâtinais (1908), pp. 354–364.