Le Landais Monastery

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Le Landais Cistercian Abbey
Preserved buildings of the former abbey
Preserved buildings of the former abbey
location FranceFrance France
Region Center-Val de Loire
Indre
Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '19 "  N , 1 ° 29' 23"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 0 '19 "  N , 1 ° 29' 23"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek
35
founding year 1115 by Benedictines
Cistercian since 1129
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1791
Mother monastery L'Aumône monastery
Primary Abbey Citeaux monastery

Daughter monasteries

Barzelles Monastery

The Monastery Le Landais (Landesium, formerly Fonstable) is a former Cistercian abbey in the town Frédille in the Indre region Center-Val de Loire , in France , some 30 km north-west of Châteauroux .

history

The monastery was founded as a Benedictine monastery in 1115 . Probably in 1129 (the information varies) it joined the Cistercian order as a daughter monastery of the monastery L'Aumône from the filiation of the monastery Cîteaux . In 1137 it founded the Barzelles daughter monastery . Thanks to important donations from the Lord of Buzançais, Jean de Prie, the abbey church and most of the buildings were rebuilt in the first half of the 13th century. The monastery had seven mills, a forge and eleven grangia, as well as townhouses in Châteauroux, Villedieu, Buzançais and Levroux. The monastery was destroyed in the Huguenot Wars in 1569, but then rebuilt. The end of the monastery came with the French Revolution in 1791. It was subsequently sold as a national property and largely demolished around 1830. In 2004 the remains of the abbey were protected as a monument historique .

Buildings and plant

The facility corresponded to the Bernhardine plan. The cruciform, three-aisled, 56 m long and 18.50 m wide church from the 13th century with transept, rectangular choir , two side chapels on each side was in the south. The exam with the usual rooms followed to the north. The monastery had a remarkable hydraulic system. The two yokes of the choir have been preserved, but without vaults , the two southern side chapels with their vaults (one of them with wall paintings), a yoke of the sacristy and a yoke of the south aisle, as well as the conversing house converted for the Commendatarabbot .

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. 101.

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