Bondeville Cistercian Abbey

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The Cistercian Abbey Bondeville was from the 12th century to 1790, a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville in Rouen in the Seine-Maritime department in France .

history

Founded in the first half of the 12th century by the local nobility seven kilometers north of Rouen on the River Cailly , the Bondeville nunnery (also: Saint-Denis de Bondeville ) was accepted as a priory in the Cistercian order in 1147 and settled by the Bival monastery . The monastery church, completed in 1170, was dedicated to Saint Dionysius of Paris ( Saint Denis ). Further donations and the benevolence of Empress Matilda led to a beneficial development with (mid-13th century) around 30 nuns and 10 conversations. The Archbishops of Rouen (including Eudes Rigaud ), to whom the monastery was subordinate, elevated it to an abbey in 1657 . The first abbess was Françoise Le Normand de Beaumont. In 1790 the French Revolution led to the dissolution of the monastery and the dismantling of the buildings. Only archaeological traces remain in Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville. The street names Rue de l'Abbaye , Rue des Bernardines , the district name Bois de l'Abbaye and the building name L'Abbaye (modern building of the Sanofi group ) are reminiscent of the former monastery.

literature

  • Alain Alexandre: Notre-Dame-de-Bondeville . A. Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2004. 127 pages (local history).
  • Alain Alexandre: You prieuré de Notre dame de Bondeville au laboratoire Choay. Généalogie d'un site de la Vallée du Cailly. Establishments Choay . Notre-Dame de Bondeville 1983.
  • Armelle Bonis and Monique Wabont (eds.): "Cisterciens et Cisterciennes en France du Nord-Ouest. Typologie des fondations, typologie des sites". In: Cîteaux et les femmes , ed. by Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Élizabeth Henneau. Créaphis, Paris 2001, pp. 151-175 (Rencontres à Royaumont, 15).
  • The register of Eudes of Rouen . Edited by Jeremiah F. O'Sullivan. Columbia University Press, New York 1964 (including several visit reports on Bondeville Monastery).

Manual literature

  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 419.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 265.
  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Map collection , Lukas Verlag Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , sheet 53 C.

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Coordinates: 49 ° 29 ′ 40 "  N , 1 ° 2 ′ 38.3"  E