Cistercian Abbey of Arques

The abbey became a castle at the end of the 19th century.

The Cistercian Abbey Arques was 1636-1791 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Arques-la-Bataille in Dieppe in the Seine-Maritime department in France .

history

Louis de Guiran, lord of Dampierre-Saint-Nicolas, founded in 1636 six kilometers southeast Dieppe the Cistercian monastery of Our Lady and Saint Joseph in Arques, was elected its first abbess his sister Louise de Guiran, nun of the convent of Saint-Aubin-de -Gournay (in Gournay-en-Bray ). Arques Monastery burned down in 1768 and was rebuilt. In 1791 it was dissolved by the French Revolution . The abbess's house (in a castle-like shape) has been preserved ("Château de l'Abbaye", privately owned).

literature

• Alphonse-Honoré Taillandier: Les Bernardines d'Arques . A. Lainé et J. Havard, Paris 1865. 32 pages (with partial list of the abbesses).

Manual literature

• Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 160.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 264.
• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 53 C.

Web links

• Mentioned in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
• Entry on the Certosa di Firenze website
• Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
• Brief description, in French, with picture

Coordinates: 49 ° 53 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 1 ° 7 ′ 40 ″  E