Ulmet Monastery

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Ulmet Cistercian Abbey
location FranceFrance France
Region Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur,
Bouches-du-Rhône department
Coordinates: 43 ° 27 '56 "  N , 4 ° 38' 5"  E Coordinates: 43 ° 27 '56 "  N , 4 ° 38' 5"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		431 (Sylveréal)
founding year 1173
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1323
Mother monastery Bonnevaux Monastery (Dauphiné)
Primary Abbey Citeaux monastery

The monastery Ulmet (Sancta Maria de Ulmeto) was established in 1173 Cistercian abbey in the French region of Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur . It was about 25 km from the city of Arles in the Camargue .

history

The monastery, which, like the Franquevaux monastery, operated the salt production, was established with the support of the Seigneurs des Baux as a subsidiary of the Bonnevaux monastery from the filiation of the Cîteaux monastery on a hill ("Montille de l'abbaye d'Ulmet") between the Étang d'Ulmet and the arm of the Rhone of the same name built on the site of an old chapel. Because of the unfavorable situation (lack of drinking water, silting up of the Rhône d'Ulmet), after 1200, a branch in Sylveréal (Sauveréal) in the Petite Camargue was established on a site donated by Alfonso I of Aragón , to which some of the monks moved while another part remained in Ulmet until after 1250. Attempts were made to join the monastery to the Abbey of Valmagne , but in 1323 it was subordinated to the Benedictine monastery Psalmody , which undertook to keep four monks in Sylveréal and two in Ulmet. Ulmet was finally abandoned in 1437 and Sylveréal was abandoned in the 16th century. The stones of the church were then used for the construction of a homestead and dykes. Today only the hill is visible. There are no remains of the complex in Sylveréal either, but the field names “la grande Abbaye” and “la petite Abbaye” are reminiscent 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. 409.

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