Monastery of the Recollects in Metz
The Monastery of the Recollects (French Cloître des Récollets ) is an old monastery building from the 14th century in the old town of Metz in the Moselle department .
history
The monastery was founded by the Cordeliers , the French name for the Franciscan order , who settled on the hill of Sainte-Croix in 1230. From 1602 until the French Revolution it belonged to the Franciscan reform branch of the Récollets ( ordo fratrum minorum recollectorum ). Part of the Armée du Rhin was quartered here in 1791, in the first year of its existence. The church of the monastery and the fourth gallery of the cloister were destroyed in 1804. After the revolution, the buildings housed the city's welfare office ( bureau de bienfaisance ). In the nineteenth century, the buildings housed an orphanage run by the Cooperative of the Daughters of Christian Love of St. Vincent de Paul .
today
The European Institute for Ecology, founded by Jean-Marie Pelt, has been housed in the monastery since 1972 and the city archives of Metz since 2002 .
architecture
The Gothic-style cloister is now three-winged and two-story. The arcades and ceilings on the ground floor are very simple. The cloister consists of 21 bays , which are spanned by a simple wooden ceiling. Like all cloisters, it served as a connecting passage between the monastery buildings built around it and is an integral part of them. The middle yoke is wider than the window yokes and allows access to the dotted garden, a simple broderie parterre that is not economically used , which was used for rest and prayer and in the middle of which there was a small ornamental fountain. A smaller monastery garden ( Jardin de simples ), which is still laid out with medicinal plants today, adjoins the south-west side. There is a contained spring in it, a wall delimits the garden to the street and improves the microclimate.
The gallery on the south-east side gives access to the chapter house , which is also simply designed with its wooden columns. The buildings adjoining the cloister were not given a new use until the 18th century. The only decorations in the cloister are grave monuments and inscriptions embedded in the walls. Due to the altitude, there was also an elevated tank on the site , which was later rededicated as archive rooms.
The ensemble has been protected as a Monument historique since March 23, 1972 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cloître des Récollets ( Memento of the original dated November 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website of the city of Metz
- ↑ La route des abbayes, Conseil régional de Lorraine, Éditions Serpenoises
- ^ Sign for a historical city tour of Metz
- ^ Couvent des Récollets (ancien) in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '10.2 " N , 6 ° 10' 48.7" E