Loos Monastery

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Loos Cistercian Abbey
location FranceFrance France
Region Hauts-de-France
Nord department
Lies in the diocese Tournai
Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '58 "  N , 2 ° 59' 54"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 36 '58 "  N , 2 ° 59' 54"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		298
founding year 1149
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1791
Mother monastery Clairvaux Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

no

The former abbey, now a prison

The Loos Monastery (Notre-Dame de Loos, Looz, Laudes BMV) is a former Cistercian abbey in the commune of Loos in the Nord department ( Hauts-de-France region in France ), around two kilometers west of Lille , on formerly swampy terrain in Valley of the Deûle .

history

The monastery was in 1149 by the Count of Flanders Thierry, Count of Flanders and his wife Sibylle of Anjou donated and the Branch Clairvaux settled whose filiation it belonged. Several nunneries were subordinate to the monastery and it owned several seigneuries and manors. The site was drained by the monastery, which quickly gained great wealth. In 1752 the abbey was built in its present form. The monastery came to an end during the French Revolution . From 1817 the buildings served as a prison.

In August 2011 the prison was closed. The building has now been devastated by cable theft and vandalism .

Buildings and plant

The existing large facility is a brick and stone building.

literature

  • Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , pp. 287-288.
  • Lucien de Rosny: Histoire de l'Abbaye de Notre-Dame de Loos. sn, Lille et al. 1837.

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