Morimond Monastery
| Morimond Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Remains of the abbey church |
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| location |
 Franceregion Grand Est Dép. Haute-Marne |
| Lies in the diocese | Langres |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 3 '26 " N , 5 ° 40' 22" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
5 |
| founding year | 1115 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1791 |
| Mother monastery | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
29 monasteries, list see article |
Morimond abbey (also Mori mouth ; lat. Abbatia Mori Mundus ) located in present-day Fresnoy-en-Bassigny in the department of Haute-Marne in the region Grand Est in France was one of the four primary abbeys of the Cistercian order .
founding
The abbey was founded in 1115 by Stephan Harding (1059–1134), the third abbot of the Cîteaux monastery , and was one of the four daughter monasteries in the Cistercian tradition, alongside La Ferté monastery in the south, Pontigny monastery in the west and Clairvaux monastery in the north Area of 100 km around Citeaux . The filiation of Morimond includes 261 monasteries (not including the settlements of the Knightly Orders of Calatrava , Alcantara , etc.). Of these, 29 are immediate daughter monasteries of Morimond.
history
Located in the diocese of Langres , Morimond was promoted by Odelric d'Aigremont and his wife Adeline de Choiseul (around 1075 after 1126 AD). The first abbot and one of the pillars of the Cistercians was the German Arnold († 1126) for nine years. 44 German monasteries and over 700 other monasteries were founded by the Cistercians between 1123 ( Kamp monastery ) and 1305 ( Stolpe monastery ), from Morimond and Clairvaux . Among these early foundations, the Maulbronn Monastery (1147 AD) in Baden-Württemberg stands out as the best-preserved medieval monastery north of the Alps and a World Heritage Site .
The three-aisled, cross - shaped monastery church with a closed choir , the sides of which are all occupied by chapels and connected by a corridor, was designed according to the building regulations of the Cistercians simply and strictly, without towers or artistic decorations. During the Wars of Religion , in 1572 and in 1636 in the Thirty Years War , Morimond was destroyed and abandoned in 1791. Only the church remained, but fell into ruin in the 19th century. A fragment of the north aisle of the medieval abbey still stands, and the 18th century entrance portal can be found next to pavilions, arcades and the library.
The name "Morimond", from "mori mundo", can be translated as: "Die the world". Anyone who entered this Cistercian abbey in Champagne at the beginning of the 12th century renounced earthly existence . One of the famous men from Morimond was Otto von Freising , the son of the Margrave of Austria Leopold III. and his wife Agnes, daughter of Emperor Heinrich IV. He studied in Paris and then entered the Cistercian monastery, of which he became abbot . Pope Benedict XII. (Term of office 1334–1342), the third of the Avignon popes, began his career as a monk in Morimond.
Branch monasteries
Immediate daughter monasteries in France
- Bellevaux monastery
- La Crete Monastery
- Beaupré monastery
- Theuley Monastery
- Clairefontaine Monastery
- Bithaine Monastery
- Villers-Bettnach Abbey
- Bonnefont Monastery
- Aiguebelle Monastery
- L'Escaladieu monastery
- Berdoues Monastery
- Franquevaux Monastery
- Silvacane Monastery
- Belleau Monastery
- Freistroff Monastery
Immediate daughter monasteries in Italy
Immediate daughter monasteries in the British Isles
Immediate daughter monasteries in Germany
Immediate daughter monasteries in Austria
Immediate daughter monasteries in Spain
Immediate daughter monasteries in Poland
Immediate daughter monasteries in the Levant
- Balamand Monastery (Lebanon)
- Salvatio Monastery (Israel)
literature
- Abbé Louis Dubois: History of Morimond Abbey and the most prominent knightly orders in Spain and Portugal . Aschendorff, Münster 1992 (reprint of the 1855 edition).
- Hubert Flammarion (* 1946), Benoît Rouzeau and Georges Viard: Morimond, quatrième fille de Cîteaux . Association des Amis de l'abbaye de Morimond, Langres 2010, 2nd edition 2017.
- Hubert Flammarion, Benoît-Michel Tock, Michèle Courtois, Isabelle Draelants and Jean-Baptiste Renault: Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Morimond au XIIe siècle . Brepols, Turnhout 2014.
- Mathieu Flammarion (* 1976): Morimond. Une aventure cistercienne . Association des Amis de l'abbaye de Morimond, Langres 2018. (Comic)
