Val-des-Choues monastery

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Val-des-Choues monastery

The monastery Val-des-Choues (also: Val-des-Choux ) was a Roman Catholic male monastery of its own congregation from 1193 to 1762 , then until 1791 part of the Cistercian monastery of Sept-Fons , in Villiers-le-Duc , canton of Châtillon- sur-Seine , Côte-d'Or department in France. The preserved buildings have been classified as Monument historique since 1992 .

history

Odo III. von Burgundy founded the monastery Vallis Caulium (French: Val des Choues " Owl Valley " or Val. ) in 1193 in the forest of Châtillon-sur-Seine between Villiers-le-Duc and Essarois (not far from the already existing former Carthusian monastery Lugny in Recey-sur-Ource) des Choux "Valley of Cabbage"). The monastery followed a rule that contained elements of the Carthusians and the Cistercians and formed (as a grand priory) its own congregation with the around 30 daughter monasteries that it founded . In 1762 it was taken over by the Sept-Fons Monastery and thus Cistercian (most of the daughters had already been dissolved). Sept-Fons gave it the name Val Saint-Lieu . In 1791 the French Revolution closed the monastery and the buildings were dismantled. The remaining buildings, which today house a hunting center (with a pack of dogs), are under monument protection. An association for the preservation of the abbey has made the visit possible since 1990 and created a baroque garden.

Foundations (selection)

literature

  • Phillip C. Adamo: New monks in old habits. The formation of the Caulite monastic order, 1193-1267 . Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 2014.
  • Robert Folz: Le monastère du Val des Choux au premier siècle de son histoire . In: Bulletin philologique et historique 1959, pp. 91-115.
  • Dorothée Jalloutz: Cisterciens au Val-des-Choux et à Sept-Fons. Règlements généraux , ed. by Placide Vernet . L'Harmattan, Paris 2005.
  • Simeon Ross Macphail: History of the religious house of Pluscardyn convent of the vale of Saint Andrew in Morayshire. With introduction, containing the history and a description of the present state of the mother-house of the Order of Vallis Caulium (Val des Choux) in Burgundy . Edinburgh 1881.
  • Ordinal conventus Vallis Caulium. The rule of the monastic order of Val-des-Choux in Burgundy , ed. by Walter de Gray Birch (1842–1924). Longmans, London 1900.
  • François Poillotte: Le Val des Choux. Un prieuré chef d'ordre . Société archéologique et historique du Châtillonnais, Châtillon-sur-Seine 2014.

Manual literature

  • Gallia Christiana 4, column 742-745 ("Vallis-Caulium", with list of priorities until 1698).
  • Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium tomus 1, Vienna 1877, S. LIV, LXVII and LXXII.
  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 3257.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 69 and 317 (“Val-des-Choues”).
  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 33 B – D (“Val des Choux”).

Web links

Commons : Val-des-Choues Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbaye du Val des Choux (ancienne) in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
  2. ^ Paul Maillard: Palis et le prieuré de Clairlieu (Aube). J. Brunard, Troyes 1884.
  3. ↑ Information on the monastery, in French
  4. ^ Website of the Vauclair Brewery, French
  5. ↑ Monastery presentation on the diocese's homepage, in French, illustrated

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 15.9 "  N , 4 ° 42 ′ 25.4"  E