Ourscamp Monastery

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Ourscamp Cistercian Abbey
Abbot house and church facade
Abbot house and church facade
location FranceFrance France
Region Picardie
Oise
Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '4 "  N , 2 ° 58' 20"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 32 '4 "  N , 2 ° 58' 20"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		37
founding year 1129
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1792
Mother monastery Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Froidmont Monastery (1134)
Beaupré Monastery (Picardy) (1135)
Mortemer Monastery

The Ourscamp Monastery (Ursi Campus) is a former Cistercian abbey in the commune of Chiry-Ourscamp in the Oise department , Hauts-de-France region , in France . It is located around five kilometers south of Noyon near the Oise .

history

Choir ruin

At the request of the Bishop of Noyon, Simon of Vermandois , a convent from the Clairvaux Primary Abbey settled in Ourscamp in 1129 . A first church was consecrated as early as 1134. The construction of the second church, based on the model of Noyon Cathedral, began in 1154. It was 102 m long, 24 m wide and 16 m high up to the vaults. A century later, the original flat, closed choir was replaced by a choir with five courtyard chapels separated from the transept by three choir bays. At times the monastery had over 500 monks. In 1358 several monks were killed in an attack by Navarre adventurers. The Konversenflügel was replaced in 1677 by a new guest wing ("Lothringer Flügel"). In 1748 a new abbot's house ("Gesvres wing") was built. The church facade was adapted to the new wings in 1745. When the monastery was dissolved during the French Revolution , it was turned into a military hospital for the Northern Army. It was later converted into a castle. The nine-bay nave of the church was laid down in the spirit of the romanticism of ruins. In 1825 a spinning mill was set up. During the First World War , the monastery burned down in part in 1915, especially the Lorraine wing. In 1941 a religious community, the Serviteurs de Jésus et de Marie, moved in.

Buildings and plant

The choir, which has lost its vault and the chapels, with the Gothic triumphal arch and the east walls of the transept are still preserved from the church. The monumental infirmary from 1220, now used as a chapel, to the south-east of the church, with a single, rib-vaulted 46 m long and 16 m wide three-aisled hall with two rows of eight columns each, is also preserved, which is considered the most beautiful in France. The Paris town house has also been preserved from the monastery.

  • Choir section of the abbey

  • Infirmary

  • View of the infirmary used as a church service room

  • Preserved medieval vaulted cellar in the Paris town house of the abbey

literature

  • Anselme Dimier , Jean Porcher: The Art of the Cistercians in France. Zodiaque-Echter, Würzburg 1986, ISBN 3-429-01026-8 , p. 333, with a floor plan of the church.
  • Élie Ferrandon: Ourscamp - des ruines romantiques. In: Dossiers d'Archéologie. No. 234, 1998, ISSN  1141-7137 , pp. 98-99.
  • Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , pp. 379-381.

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