Bellecombe Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey of Bellecombe was a French monastery of the Cistercian sisters from 1133 to 1792 , first on Mount Suc Ardu , and from 1210 in Bellecombe near Yssingeaux in the Haute-Loire department .
history
Donated by the noble Chalençon family at a very early point in time ("around 1130 to 1133" according to Peugniez), but in a very inhospitable location in the Meygal massif (in today's canton Emblavez-et-Meygal ) , the Cistercian women , under the supervision of the Mazan Monastery , became Priorat 1209 moved by Bishop Bertrand de Chalençon († 1213) to the final place Bellecombe (Latin: Bella Cumba "cozy hollow"), still the name of a hamlet between Yssingeaux and the village of Araules (at the foot of the mountain Suc de Bellecombe , the 1178 m high). Bellecombe settled the monastery Nonenque in 1146 and in 1226 the monastery La Séauve-Bénite, 20 kilometers from Bellecombe . Elevated to an abbey in 1246, Bellecombe was dissolved by the French Revolution in 1792 . Only one (now private) building from the 18th century (with a guard tower ) remains of the former monastery.
literature
- Charles Besson: Moniales cisterciennes en Gévaudan et en Velay, abbayes de Mercoire, Bellecombe et La Séauve-Bénite . In: Cahiers de la Haute-Loire 2003.
- Jean Theillière (* 1818): Notes historiques sur les monastères de La Séauve, Bellecombe, Clavas et Montfaucon de l'Ordre de Cîteaux . 4 vols. J.-M. Freydier, Saint-Etienne 1872–1880.
- Monastère de Bellecombe (1873) 160 pages.
- Pierre Cubizolles: Le diocèse du Puy-en-Velay des origines à nos jours. Editions Créer, Nonette 2005, pp. 125–128.
- H. Colly: L'abbaye de Notre-Dame de Bellecombe . In: La semaine religieuse du diocèse du Puy-en-Velay , 1891-1892, pp. 270, 302, 316, 349, 366, 431, 493, 509, 541, 557, 574.
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 329.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 52.
Web links
- Mention of Bellecombe in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
- "Bellecombe" entry on the Certosa di Firenze website, with localization
- Page Bellecombe in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
- Note on the monastery, in French, with picture
- Archive information on the monastery, French
- Newspaper article on the history of the monastery, French
- Brief information on the last abbess, Marie-Rose de Retz, in French
Coordinates: 45 ° 6 ′ 0.8 ″ N , 4 ° 9 ′ 32.5 ″ E