Les Rosiers monastery

The monastery of Les Rosiers was first an abbey of the Cistercians from 1241 to 1791 , from 1389 a priory of the Cistercians in Séchault , Canton Attigny , Arrondissement Vouziers , Département Ardennes in France .

history

South of Monthois (between the villages of Challerange and Séchault, on the Alin brook), not far from the Cistercian monastery Chéry , Balduin von Autry donated the nunnery Notre-Dame des Rosiers (also: Roziers or Rozières , from French roseau "reed"), which first started with sisters the Benedictine Abbey of Avenay was settled and was demonstrably a Cistercian abbey from 1241. In 1244 the convent near Reims , where they owned a house, founded the Clairmarais monastery . In 1389 the abbey was replaced by a monastery, which was the priory of Clairvaux until it was dissolved by the French Revolution . The remaining Gothic building remains, including the 47 meter long nave, are used privately as "Castle Roziers" (residential building) and have been a listed building since 1956.

literature

• Henri Vincent: Notre-Dame des Rosiers. Ordre de Cîteaux, près Monthois (Ardennes) . In: Revue de Champagne et Brie 9, 1880, pp. 13-30.

Manual literature

• Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 2537.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 120.
• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Map collection , Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 53 D.

Web links

• Mention "Rosières, les" in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
• "Rosières, les" entry on the Certosa di Firenze website, with localization
• Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
• Domaine des Rosiers in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 49 ° 17 ′ 1.7 "  N , 4 ° 44 ′ 50.5"  E