Vauluisant monastery
| Vauluisant Cistercian Abbey | |
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 The gatehouse |
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| location | France region of Burgundy Yonne department |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 15 '55 " N , 3 ° 32' 10" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
34 |
| founding year | 1127 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Preuilly Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Vauluisant Monastery (Vallis lucens), not to be confused with Le Bouschet-Vauluisant Monastery , is a former Cistercian abbey in the commune of Courgenay in the Yonne department , Burgundy region , in France . It is located around 25 km northeast of Sens in the valley of the Alain stream, a tributary of the Vanne , in the border area of the Pays d'Othe landscape .
history
The monastery was settled in 1127 by a founding convent from the Preuilly monastery and thus belonged to the filiation of Cîteaux monastery . It founded the Varennes daughter monastery in 1149 . Granges were established in Beauvais, TOUCHEBOEUF, Livannes, Cerilly, Loges, Bernières, Beaulieu, Beauregard and Armentières. The abbey, which worked iron and operated quarries, had townhouses in Troyes (the Hôtel de Vauluisant , now the Historical Museum) and in Provins . In 1636 the Cistercians of the strict observance ( Trappists ) came to the monastery. The monastery, plundered and devastated several times in its history, was dissolved during the French Revolution and demolished after 1792 and turned into a model property by the banker Léopold Javal in 1835. The gardens were also expanded. The Festival de Vauluisant has been held since 1982 . The complex is classified as a monument historique .
Buildings and plant
Nothing has survived of the three-aisled church, consecrated in 1144 and rebuilt in the 13th and 14th centuries, with six nave bays, a transept with three rectangular side chapels on both sides and a choir with a 7/12 end, which was probably demolished before 1840 as well as the convent buildings. The entrance gate from the 16th century with two side round towers with conical roofs, the guest house and the foreign chapel, the house of King Franz I , a tithe barn restored in the 16th century , the octagonal pigeon house and the mill have been preserved. The "Château" is the conversion of the Konversen wing; it contains a monumental staircase from the 18th century. In the church of Courgenay there are three altars from the monastery, in that of Villeneuve-l'Archevêque there is a burial of the Master of Chaource from 1528.
The abbey in 1692 is shown in a view from 1692 (Bibliothèque nationale de France, coll. Gaignières).
literature
- Association Résonances de Vauluisant: Abbaye de Vauluisant. Villeneuve l'Archevêque, undated
- Denis Cailleaux: Prospections électriques à l'Abbaye de Vauluisant (Yonne). In: Dossiers d'Archéologie. No. 340, 2010, ISSN 1141-7137 , pp. 10–15, with a floor plan of the church.
- Viscount Greffié de Bellecombe, L'Abbaye de Vauluisant en Champagne, or naquit Jacques de Savoie-Nemours. In: Société Savoisienne d'Histoire et d'Archéologie. Memoires and Documents. Vol. 59, 1920, ISSN 0046-7510 , p. 27 ff.
- Bernard Peugniez: Routier cistercien. Abbayes et sites. France, Belgique, Luxembourg, Suisse. Nouvelle édition augmentée. Éditions Gaud, Moisenay 2001, ISBN 2-84080-044-6 , pp. 75-76.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ printed u. a. in Dossiers d'Archéologie No. 340, p. 10