La Chaise-Dieu
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| region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
| Department | Haute Loire | |
| Arrondissement | Brioude | |
| Canton | Plateau du Haut-Velay granitique | |
| Community association | Puy-en-Velay | |
| Coordinates | 45 ° 19 ′ N , 3 ° 42 ′ E | |
| height | 916-1,120 m | |
| surface | 13.58 km 2 | |
| Residents | 620 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 46 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 43160 | |
| INSEE code | 43048 | |
 View of the village with Saint-Robert abbey church |
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La Chaise-Dieu is a French municipality with 620 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Haute-Loire in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . The city is located in the arrondissement of Brioude and is the capital of the canton of Plateau du Haut-Velay granitique . The place is located west of Brioude in the Senouire Valley and is part of the Livradois-Forez Regional Nature Park .
history
Robert von Turlande founded a Benedictine monastery here in 1043 . This received the Latin name casa dei , from which the French word La Chaise-Dieu developed. As the mother monastery of the Congregation of La Chaise-Dieu, it had a great influence on the Church in France, especially in the 12th century. The daughter monasteries are referred to in French with the attribute casadéen , in English with the attribute casadean . In 2012, a Council of Europe cultural trail was dedicated to the "Casadean Sites" (German: the "casa dei sites") , which leads to sites in Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland and Spain.
Culture and sights
Buildings
The Gothic Abbey La Chaise-Dieu (Église abbatiale de Saint-Robert ) , dedicated to the founder of the abbey, was founded in the years 1344-1352 at the instigation of Pope Clement VI. erected, whose high tomb from the 17th century is in the monks' choir of the church. It is characterized above all by the frescoes from the 15th century, which show the medieval motif of the dance of death . The numerous tapestries date from the beginning of the 16th century and were made in Brussels and Arras . Also worth seeing are the 144-seat choir stalls and the rood screen from the 17th century with a crucifix from 1603.
Dance of Death by La Chaise-Dieu
The dance of death, which today only survives in fragments, was created between 1410 and 1425. The remains of the wall painting, originally about 26 meters long and 140 centimeters high, are located in the three western bays of the north aisle. On the back wall of the former choir screen, you can still see 24 of the 30 couples in the dance of death, which was never quite completed. The sequence of images began with the scene of the fall of Adam and Eve in paradise; a preacher followed who called for a virtuous life. This was followed by dancers with death in the form of a mummified corpse: Pope, emperor, cardinal, king, patriarch, general, archbishop, knight, bishop (?), Squire, abbot (?), Bailiff (?), Astrologer ( ?), Citizen, canon, merchant, Carthusian monk, sergeant, lay brother, usurer (?), Doctor, lover, lawyer, minstrel, pastor, farmer, mendicant, child, clerk and hermit. Below the scenes of the dance of death, a system of lines can still be seen in some places, where apparently the accompanying verses with the speeches of death and its victims were provided for each dance couple, but were never executed.
- Dance of Death by La Chaise-Dieu
Regular events
Every year in late summer there is a large music festival in La Chaise-Dieu , which takes place on György Cziffra d. Ä. going back.
traffic
The tourist railway line la ligne touristique du Livradois-Forez stops at La Chaise-Dieu station. These panorama trains only run in the summer season.
literature
- Yves Bonnefoy : Peintures murales de la France gothique. Hartmann, Paris 1954, p. 30 f. with fig. 84–91.
- Georg Troescher : Burgundian painting. Painters and paintings around 1400 in Burgundy, the Berry with the Auvergne and in Savoy with their sources and emanations. Mann, Berlin 1966, text volume pp. 201–211 and table volume, panels 90–95.
- Hans Georg Wehrens: The dance of death in the Alemannic language area. "I have to do it - and don't know what". Schnell & Steiner, Regensburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7954-2563-0 , p. 22 f.
Web links
- http://www.tourisme.fr/lachaisedieu/
- http://www.abbaye-chaise-dieu.com/
- History of the music festival
Individual evidence
- ↑ Euro Europe: The Casa Dean sites
- ↑ Reseau Europeen des sites casadéens: Itinéraire culturel du conseil de l'Europe