Obazine Monastery
| Obazine Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Church and monastery building from the north-west |
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| location |
 Franceregion Nouvelle-Aquitaine Correze |
| Coordinates: | 45 ° 10 '28 " N , 1 ° 40' 13" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
266 |
| founding year | 1134 by Benedictines |
| Cistercian since | 1147 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Citeaux monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Monastery La Valette |
The Obazine Abbey (also Aubazine or Obasina ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the town of Aubazines in Correze in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine in France .
location
The church and the place that developed later are located on a wooded plateau above the Coiroux gorges around 14 km (driving distance) east of Brive-la-Gaillarde at an altitude of approx. 293 m above sea level. d. M.
history
A Benedictine monastery founded in 1134 or 1142 joined the Cistercian order in 1147 as a subsidiary of Cîteaux . It grew rapidly and founded six daughter monasteries and numerous grangia by 1261 . With the Coyroux nunnery founded in 1142 and only about one and a half kilometers away , it formed a kind of double monastery, which is unusual among the Cistercians (cf. Boulancourt Monastery ). The famous Coucnaguet mill belonged to Obazine ; in addition, it owned several houses in Brive, a house in Rocamadour and a salt store in Cognac - all of these possessions provided reliable income in kind or in money. The Hundred Years War led to the impoverishment of the monastery; In addition, it had become much too big for the decreasing number of monks and so in 1757 six nave bays were demolished and the west facade of the church was redesigned. During the French Revolution , the monastery was closed in 1791. After the revolution, the monastery church became a parish church ; the monastery buildings were used as an orphanage. From 1986 to 2010 Obazine was the seat of a charismatic renewal movement ("le Verbe de Vie").
Buildings and plant
The former monastery church was completed by 1176; The inner and outer walls of the church show an exact stone work. The central nave is vaulted with a pointed barrel and arched with ribs, the aisle bays have groin vaults . The choir with a 5/8 end is illuminated by three arched windows; above it is a smaller window position with a triumphal arch scheme . The crossing , from which the two arms of the transept with three rectangular chapels each extend, is surmounted by a pendent dome over which there is an octagonal tower. The capitals are - as usual with the Cistercians - unadorned but extremely elegant; the load of the belt arches is diverted from the semi-columns and (apparently) absorbed by brackets . In the transept is the grave of the first abbot, St. Stephan, with a gable roof resting on double arches . In the church there is a tunnel cabinet for liturgical implements with Romanesque blind arcades from the second half of the 12th century.
Of the northern church cloistered buildings are sacristy and chapter house with two mighty monolith columns received and the monk hall. The refectory is parallel to the former cloister , which is off. A monumental staircase leads from the dormitory to the transept. From the Coyroux nunnery, about 1500 meters away, an irrigation channel led water to the Obazine monastery.
Church floor plan
octagonal crossing tower
North transept
Residential wing of the monastery
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literature
- Bernadette Barrière: L'Abbaye cistercienne d'Obazine en Bas-Limousin. Les origines, le patrimoine. Orfeuil, Tulle 1977.
- Bernadette Barrière: Aubazine en Bas-Limousin. Association histoire et archeologie en Pays d'Obazine, Limoges 1991.
- three contributions by Bernadette Barrière in Dossiers d'Archéologie. No. 234, 1998, ISSN 1141-7137 , p. 92 ff.
- Anselme Dimier , Jean Porcher: The Art of the Cistercians in France. Echter, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-429-01026-8 , p. 172 ff. (With two floor plans).
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 219.
