Cistercian Abbey of La Cambre
The Cistercian Abbey of La Cambre (Dutch: Cambre ) was 1201-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Ixelles / Elsene , Brussels-Capital Region in Belgium .
history
In 1201 Heinrich I von Brabant and his wife Mathilde founded the nunnery La Cambre (Picard, for French chambre , "Marienkammer") at the source of the Maelbeek in today's Ixelles , which prospered well but suffered a lot over the centuries. The mystic Aleydis von Schaerbeek (* 1225) was a nun in La Cambre from 1232 until her death in 1249. St. Boniface of Lausanne died there in 1261. In the course of the advance of the French Revolution , the monastery was closed in 1796, but it escaped complete dismantling. The Gothic church from the 14th century, the cloister and fountain house from the 16th and 17th centuries, and the abbess wing from the 18th century have been preserved. The buildings house a Premonstratensian monastery (since 2013) and the La Cambre college of art, design and architecture. A brewery is currently selling the “Abbaye de / Abdij van La Cambre” beer and advertising the monastery founder with a picture. Marc Meganck (* 1975) turned the abbey into the setting of a crime novel: Les dessous de la Cambre (180 ° Editions, Brussels 2012).
literature
- Alexandre Notebaert: Abbaye de la Cambre, à Ixelles. In: Monasticon Belge . IV, 2. Liège 1964, pp. 441-468.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 383.
Web links
- Mention of "Cambre, la" in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
- Aleydis von Schaerbeek, in: Biographia Cisterciensis
- Website of the Premonstratensian Monastery of La Cambre
- Website of the La Cambre School of Art
- La Cambre Brewery website
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 7.7 " N , 4 ° 22 ′ 26.8" E