Sauvelade Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey Sauvelade | |
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 Sauvelade Monastery |
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| location |
 Franceregion Nouvelle-Aquitaine Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 23 '42 " N , 0 ° 42' 0" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
686 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1287 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Gimont Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Sauvelade Monastery (Notre-Dame de Sauvelade; Silva lata; Séube lade) was a Cistercian abbey in the commune of Sauvelade in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department , Nouvelle-Aquitaine region , in France . It was about 13 km southeast of Orthez in the historic Béarn landscape .
history
The monastery, founded in 1127 by Gaston IV. Le Croisé , the Viscount of Béarn, on the left bank of the Laà initially belonged to the Benedictine order . It joined the Cistercian Order in 1287 and submitted to the Gimont Monastery (Planselve). So it belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey of Morimond . The monastery developed rapidly and founded the Grangien Sauveladette near Orthez, Capbis in Ossau, Biron, Dognen, Burgaronne, Cabanis, Villalonga and Bleichac in Brulhois. The abbey suffered badly during the Wars of Religion and was almost completely destroyed in 1569. The Protestant troops rebuilt the church. In 1633 the rest of the monastery was also rebuilt. At the time of the French Revolution , in which the monastery was dissolved, only two monks lived in it. The buildings were then sold; the monastery church became a parish church.
Buildings and plant
The cruciform church with a short nave still preserves part of the masonry, the transept vault and the vault of a side apse from its origins. The crossing tower was raised at the end of the 19th century and crowned with a dome. In the western extension of the nave there is a building known as the “Château”, which was probably built at the beginning of the 18th century.
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. 30-31.