Cistercian Abbey of Beaupré

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The Cistercian Abbey of Beaupré was 1228-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Grimminge, Geraardsbergen (also: Grammont), Province of East Flanders , Roman Catholic Diocese of Ghent in Belgium . (The monastery is not to be confused with the Cistercian abbeys of Beaupré in Lorraine , Beaupré in Picardy and Beaupré-sur-la-Lys , North Department )

history

Nuns from the Cistercian abbey of La Cambre / Ter Kameren founded the monastery of Sainte Marie de Beaupré (“Holy Mary of the Beautiful Meadow”) in 1228 , which was dissolved by the French Revolution in 1796 and subsequently mostly broken up. Among the remains that were placed under monument protection in 1965 and survived several fires, the monastery portal and the abbess residence, the work of the Ghent architect Jean-Baptiste Simoens (1715–1779), stand out. The Antiphonale by Beaupré from 1290, kept in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore , is famous .

literature

  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 373.
  • Monasticon Belge . 7. Province de Flandre Orientale . Vol. 3. Liège, 1980 (E. Houtman: "Abdij van Beaupré").

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Coordinates: 50 ° 47 '36 "  N , 3 ° 56' 13.1"  E