Cistercian Abbey of Félipré

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The Cistercian Abbey of Félipré (also: Félix-Pré ) was a monastery of the Cistercian women in Givet , Ardennes department , in France from 1200 to 1796 . From 1462 to 1465, however, Cistercian monks were there .

history

At a time when the northern tip of what is now the Ardennes department belonged to the diocese of Liège , one of the lords of Rochefort founded the Cistercian nunnery Felix Pratum (Félipré) not far from the Meuse , which in 1206 settled in the monastery of Saint-Rémy founded in Rochefort . In 1462 Félipré was given to Cistercian monks, but three years later there was an exchange ordered by the administration of the order. The monks of Félipré were transplanted to Rochefort to save the declining monastery of Saint-Rémy, and the Cistercian women living there were resettled to Félipré, where they were until the abolition of the monastery in the course of the advance of the French Revolutionremained in 1796. It is known that the abbey church was still standing in 1823. Today there are no remains of the abbey. The last remaining gate was sold and demolished in 2012, the last grangie in 2015. One of the better-known inmates of the monastery was the nun Anne Bienne from Dinant, who died in 1617 in the smell of holiness ( professed 1564).

literature

  • Nicolas Le Long: Histoire ecclésiastique et civile du diocèse de Laon, et de tout le pays contenu entre l'Oise et la Meuse, l'Aisne et la Sambre . Seneuze, Châlons 1783, p. 292.
  • Alain Sartelet: Givet et sa région à travers les siècles . Éditions Terres Ardennaises, Charleville-Mezières 2015.
  • Tableau ecclésiastique du Diocèse (Ancien) de Liège . In: Journal historique et littéraire 6, 1839, p. 271.
  • Ardenne Wallonne 143, December 2015 (Several articles on Félix-Pré Abbey).
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 120.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 49.6 ″  N , 4 ° 51 ′ 56.7 ″  E