Pontifroy Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey Pontifroy | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Franceregion Grand Est Moselle department |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 7 '37 " N , 6 ° 10' 26" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
702 |
| founding year | 1323 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1740 |
| Mother monastery | Villers-Bettnach Abbey |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Pontifroy Monastery (Pontifroid; Pons frigidus) was a Cistercian abbey in the city of Metz in the Moselle department , Grand Est region , in France . The monastery was outside the city walls of Metz near the source of Pontifroy.
history
In 1323 the monastery was donated by Jean Louvi and his wife Pontia in the former imperial city of Metz, which was then still part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was the fourth and last subsidiary of the Villers-Bettnach Abbey from the filiation of the Morimond Primary Abbey . After the conquest by France in 1552, the monastery buildings were demolished in 1565 and the monastery was transferred to the church of St-Georges in Metz. In 1740 the monastery was closed. The goods went to the Cistercian Abbey of Petit-Clairvaux . The name Pontifroy has been preserved in a district of Metz.
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. 234.
- Ambrosius Schneider: Lexical overview of the male monasteries of the Cistercians in the German language and cultural area. In: Ambrosius Schneider, Adam Wienand, Wolfgang Bickel, Ernst Coester (eds.): The Cistercienser. History - Spirit - Art. 3rd, expanded edition. Wienand, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 , p. 685.