Montdevergues
| Montfavet | ||
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| local community | Avignon | |
| region | Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur | |
| Department | Vaucluse | |
| Arrondissement | Avignon | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 55 ' N , 4 ° 53' E | |
| Post Code | 84140 | |
Montdevergues is the field name with which a hill in the Montfavet district in the French city of Avignon in the Vaucluse department is designated. There is an important psychiatric clinic in this place.
geology
The hill lying in the alluvial plain of the Rhone and the Durance consists of limestone, which was formerly exploited in a quarry at the southern foot of the hill.
history
The field name Montdevergues goes back to the Occitan form of the Latin name mons virginum and was created because of a women's monastery that existed there for a long time in the Middle Ages. In 1060 the Countess Oda from Avignon founded a Benedictine convent on the hill, which at that time still had the older field name Mont Lavenic , with the permission of Bishop Rostaing I , which St. Bernard subordinated to the Cistercian Order and the Sénanque Abbey around 1150 .
Around two hundred years after it was founded, on the advice of Bishop Zoen, the convent moved the monastery behind the city walls of Avignon for better protection . The new Ste-Catherine monastery was dissolved in the 1790 Revolution.
psychiatry
From 1839 to 1844 the Montfavet Psychiatric Center in Avignon was built on the Montdevergues farm . The sculptor Camille Claudel, who died in 1943, was one of the prominent patients . The Montfavet Psychiatric Institution is committed to prevention, prison psychiatry, child and adolescent psychiatry and social reintegration in the Vaucluse department.