Florival Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey of Florival was 1218-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Archennes / Eerken , Grez-Doiceau , province of Walloon Brabant , in Belgium .
history
In 1218 the Cistercian convent Florival (Latin: Florida-Valle ) was founded in Archennes, northeast of Wavre , on the Dijle , after a previously local Benedictine convent struggled to survive. After looting, pillage and destruction in the 16th and 17th centuries, which forced the nuns to flee temporarily to Leuven , Brussels or Namur , the monastery was rebuilt in the 18th century, but closed in 1796 as the French Revolution advanced tore off. In Florival Castle from the 19th century there is now a Belgian civil defense school . A train station and a street also bear the name of the former monastery.
literature
- Théophile Ploegaert: Les moniales cisterciennes dans l'ancien Roman Pays. Vol. 3. Histoire de l'Abbaye de Florival, Vallis-Florida, à Archennes . Brussels 1925 (157 pages).
- Paul Bonenfant. In: Monasticon Belge . IV, 1. Liège 1964.
- Joop Kimmel: L'abbaye de Florival (Bloemendaal) à Archennes . In: Nétradyle. Cercle d'histoire et de généalogie de Beauvechain et Grez-Doiceau (2003) pp. 1-13.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 384.
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, sheet 53 and 53.1, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 (Florival incorrectly placed).
- Leopold Janauschek : Originum Cisterciensium Tomus Primus . Vienna 1877, p. 202.
- Chaumont-Gistoux, Grez-Doiceau and Wavre. Patrimoine architectural et territoires de Wallonie . Editions Mardaga, Wavre 2007. (illustrated).
Web links
- Mention of “Florival” in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
- Private information about Florival Castle, illustrated
- Side of Florival station
- Tourism page with brief information on Florival, French