Pontaut monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Pontaut | |
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.JPG) Chapter House in The Cloisters Museum , New York |
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| location |
 FranceRegion Nouvelle-Aquitaine Landes department |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 35 '14.7 " N , 0 ° 32' 4.1" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
324 |
| founding year | 1115 by Benedictines |
| Cistercian since | 1151 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Jouy Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Pontigny monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Pontaut Monastery ( Latin Pons altus) is a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality of Mant in the Landes department , Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , in France , in the Brie countryside . The monastery is located around 15 km northwest of Provins on the northern edge of the Forêt de Jouy.
history
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The monastery was in 1115 of the first 1162 joined the Cistercian order monastery Dalon founded and joined in 1151 as a subsidiary of Abbey Jouy in the filiation of the Branch Pontigny the Cistercian Order of. During the Wars of Religion , Pontaut was destroyed by the Huguenots in 1569 . During the French Revolution , the monastery came to an end in 1791. In 1935 the chapter house used as a pigsty collapsed . The system was then sold to a Parisian antiquarian who had the chapter house in Marly-le-Roi re-erected. There the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York bought it and placed it in The Cloisters again. Architectural parts of the cloister ended up in the Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo (Ohio) .
Buildings and plant
In Pontaut, the facade of the monastery church with a pointed arched portal, two high walled round arched windows and a small rose window as well as another brick building (possibly the hospital) are still standing . The buildings are used for agriculture.
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. 28-29.
