Bellerive Cistercian Abbey

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Illustration of the monastery from 1578

The Cistercian Abbey Bellerive was 1150-1530 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Collonge-Bellerive , a municipality in the canton of Geneva in Switzerland .

history

In the early days of the Cistercian Order , when male monasteries were founded in the 12th century, women’s monasteries were often founded next door for female family members who also felt called to be. This explains the founding of the Bellerive women's monastery on Lake Geneva not far from Bonmont Monastery , which was later reinforced by the Cistercian Abbey of Le Betton . From 1530 it was looted and destroyed by the Geneva Reformation . The monastery is shown in 1578 on the map of the Bernese national territory by Thomas Schöpf . In 1950, the Swiss archaeologist Louis Blondel (1885–1967) excavated the “Champ l'Abbaye” site in Collonge-Bellerive, which was completed in 2002.

literature

  • Cistercian buildings in Switzerland . New research results on archeology and art history, 1. Publications by the Institute for Monument Preservation at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, 10/1. 1990.
  • Benoît Chauvin: L'intégration des femmes à l'Ordre de Cîteaux au XIIe siècle, entre hauts de Meuse et rives du Léman. In: Bernadette Barrière, Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (ed.): Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui. Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001 (files from a colloquium from 1998), pp. 193–211.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 626.

Web links

Commons : Abbaye de Bellerive  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 46 ° 15 '1.5 "  N , 6 ° 11' 41.7"  E ; CH1903:  504088  /  122871