Royaumont Monastery
| Royaumont Cistercian Abbey | |
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 Canals and refectory |
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| location |
 Franceregion Île-de-France Val-d'Oise department |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 8 '51 " N , 2 ° 22' 55" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
599 |
| founding year | 1228 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Citeaux monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The abbey Royaumont located in Asnieres-sur-Oise in the department of Val-d'Oise , about 30 kilometers north of Paris . It is a Cistercian abbey that was established as a subsidiary of the Cîteaux monastery between 1228 and 1235 under the reign of King Louis IX. and founded a daughter monastery in Italy ( Monastery of Santa Maria di Real Valle ). It also initially served as a burial place for members of the royal family who died in childhood (including three children and two grandchildren of Louis IX), who did not find their final resting place in the main burial site of the dynasty, the Basilica of Saint-Denis .
It was disbanded in 1791 during the French Revolution and then partly served as a quarry for a factory. The sacristy , the cloister and the refectory were preserved.
The comic opera Sérafine by Friedrich von Flotow was premiered here on October 30, 1836, and his opera Le Comte de Saint-Mégrin (La Duchesse de Guise) on June 10, 1838 .
In 1864 the abbey was bought by the Sisters of the Holy Family of Bordeaux and filled with religious life.
During World War I , the abbey was a hospital for British military personnel from 1915 to 1919, operated by Scottish Women's Hospitals (SWH) and under the direction of the French Red Cross. Many of the wounded from the Battle of the Somme were treated there.
From 1947 the tradition of the Decades of Pontigny founded by Paul Desjardins was continued by his daughter Anne Heurgon-Desjardins (1899–1977) in Royaumont, before these events moved to the castle of Cerisy-la-Salle ( Department of Manche ) in 1952 . In Royaumont, a new cultural center has been set up in its place, as described below.
In the early 20th century the abbey was sold to the Goüin family , who in 1964 established the Royaumont Foundation, the first private French cultural foundation. Today the abbey, including the garden Jardin Remarquable , is a tourist attraction and at the same time, thanks to the foundation, a cultural center with five different projects, e.g. B. on literature and poetry, on the performing arts, on literary readings.
The abbey also served as a backdrop for Jean Delannoys film Les Amitiés particulières as well as waste products of the love of Werner Schroeter .
Original cuisine
Latrine house with west tower
West part of the cloister
Cloister with inner courtyard
The monastery in 1790
Ruins of the choir, destroyed in 1792
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