Palais-Notre-Dame monastery

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Palais-Notre-Dame Cistercian Abbey
location FranceFrance France,
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region,
Creuse department
Coordinates: 45 ° 59 '37 "  N , 1 ° 46' 11"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 59 '37 "  N , 1 ° 46' 11"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek
381
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1117 by Benedictines
Cistercian since 1162
Year of dissolution /
annulment
1791
Mother monastery Dalon Monastery
Primary Abbey Pontigny monastery

Daughter monasteries

no

The Palais-Notre-Dame monastery (Palatium Beatae Mariae) is a former Cistercian abbey in the commune of Thauron in the Creuse department , Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , in France . The monastery is located around 9 km north of Bourganeuf .

history

The monastery was founded by Géraud de Salles around 1155 on the banks of the Taurion and was occupied by monks from Dalon monastery , with whom it joined the Cistercian order in 1162 in the filiation of the Pontigny primary abbey. It was disbanded in the French Revolution in 1791. Today it is privately owned.

Buildings and plant

Only traces of the 12th century church with a flat end remain of the monastery.

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. 224.

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