Valcroissant Monastery
| Valcroissant Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location | France Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Drôme region |
| Coordinates: | 44 ° 44 '46 " N , 5 ° 25' 55" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
483 |
| founding year | 1188 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Bonnevaux Monastery (Dauphiné) |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Valcroissant Monastery (Vallis Crescens) is a former Cistercian abbey in the commune of Die in the Drôme department , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in France . It is located around 5 km east of Die in a valley basin towered over by the Glandasse.
history
The monastery was founded in 1188 as the eighth and last daughter monastery of the Bonnevaux Abbey in Dauphiné and thus belonged to the filiation of the mother monastery Cîteaux . It never got any major importance. In 1400 it was merged with the Bonlieu-sur-Roubion monastery . In 1551 there were still five monks. The monastery owned the Pauliane estate in the parish of Luc-en-Diois. In the middle of the 15th century, the monastery fell in Kommende . In 1568 the monks were driven out by Protestants and the monastery was not reoccupied until it was abolished in the aftermath of the French Revolution in 1791, but was used for agriculture and fell into disrepair. After the revolution, the monastery was sold, but was largely preserved. Only the cloister is completely gone. The monastery, classified as a monument historique ( Base Mérimée PA00116931), is now an agricultural business (sheep breeding) with accommodation options.
Buildings and plant
The east-facing church with non-figurative ornamentation and now profaned in the form of a Latin cross has a three-aisled nave with three bays, a transept and a rectangular closed choir with an oculus and two rectangular side chapels on each side. The convent buildings are in the south; the convent is bigger than the church. As usual, the east wing contains the chapter house in addition to the armarium with a pointed arched passage to the former cloister and two coupled windows in deep arcades next to the passage, above the chapter house there are two more floors. In the south wing is the refectory, vaulted by a pointed barrel supported by three arches, with a large twelve-leaf rose window and two lancet windows facing south. The west wing has also been preserved.
literature
- Isabelle Jacquet: Valcroissant - humble abbaye du Diois. In: Dossiers d'Archéologie. No. 234, 1998, ISSN 1141-7137 , p. 130.
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , p. 442.
- Hans Fegers: Reclams Art Guide France Volume IV: Provence, Côte d'Azur, Dauphiné, Rhône Valley . Stuttgart 1967: Philipp Reclam jun., Without ISBN, p. 768 f.
