Cistercian Abbey Pont-Colbert
The Cistercian abbey Pont-Colbert was 1892-1954 a French monastery of Cistercian in Versailles in the Yvelines department .
history
Paul Maréchal (1840–1924), who entered the abbey of Sainte-Marie de Fontfroide (Congregation of Sénanque ) under Abbot Jean Léonard in 1891 and assumed the religious name Bernard there , founded the Pont estate in Porchefontaine near Versailles in 1892 in Porchefontaine near Versailles, which he bought with his own fortune -Colbert the priory of Sainte-Marie du Pont-Colbert and populated it with monks of the special orientation "Cistercians of the Adoration of the Most Holy" ( Cisterciens adorateurs du très saint Sacrement ), who took over the worship of the Eucharist , the Maréchal from Pierre Julien Eymard , with the Cistercian Monasticism united. The monastery became independent from Fontfroide in 1896 and became an abbey in 1900.
Before the Third Republic, which was hostile to the monastery and its anti-clerical legislation, the convent moved to Yvoir in Belgium a year later and from there in 1903 to the Onsenoort Castle in Nieuwkuijk, Heusden (Netherlands), which was bought by Maréchal . Maréchal understood the Onsenoort castle as a temporary refuge ( Refuge Sainte-Marie d'Onzenoort ), which continued the monastery name Pont-Colbert for a limited time. The first Dutch novice, Franziskus Janssens , Abbot of Pont-Colbert in 1924 (after the death of Maréchal), was even supposed to become Abbot General of the order in 1927.
In 1921 Maréchal, to whom a court had confirmed his ownership rights to the Versailles Abbey of Pont-Colbert, returned to Porchefontaine with the French monks, while three Dutch monks stayed in Onsenoort, which from 1937 assumed the name Mariënkroon and pursued its own development. This enabled the original Pont-Colbert monastery to re-enter the Sénanque congregation (abandoned in 1907). From 1925 until his death in 1929, Bishop Joseph René Vilatte lived in Pont-Colbert (Versailles) .
In 1954, the convent had to move to the Auberive monastery in the Haute-Marne department and the last monks from there to the Cuxa Abbey in 1960 , which had accepted the monks of Fontfroide in 1919. However, the Cistercian presence in Cuxa ended in 1965 when the abbey was settled by Benedictines from Montserrat Monastery .
literature
- Gregor Müller: Pont-Colbert - Onsenoort. In: Cistercienser Chronik 42, 1930, pp. 71–76.
- Jean Vatus: L'abbaye cistercienne du Pont-Colbert à Versailles. A la mémoire de Paul Maréchal (1840–1924), en religion Dom Marie-Bernard. Cercle généalogique de Versailles et des Yvelines, Versailles 1994.
- Pascalis Vermeer, Gerardus Hopstaken: Abdij Mariënkroon van 1904 dead 1979. Self-published, Nieuwkuijk 1979.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 166.