Cistercian Abbey of La Paix-Dieu

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The Cistercian abbey La Paix-Dieu was 1240-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Jehay, Amay , Province of Liège , in Belgium . It is not to be confused with the Trappist convent Cabanoule , which is also called Notre-Dame de la Paix-Dieu .

history

The community of nuns founded in 1239 in Oleye, Waremme , went to Jehay in 1240, northeast of Huy , west of Liège , and founded the Abbey of La Paix-Dieu ("God's Peace"), which was settled with nuns from the Abbey of Val-Benoît . 33 abbesses succeeded one another until the abbey was closed and partially dismantled in the course of the advance of the French Revolution in 1796. The remaining buildings date from the 18th century.

In 1993 the plant was taken over by the Walloon Region , which had archaeological excavations carried out and in 2007 set up a Center des métiers du patrimoine ("Center for Historical Crafts") of the Walloon Cultural Heritage Institute . The Maison du Tourisme Hesbaye et Meuse of the Hespengau region is also located on site . The beer "Paix Dieu" advertises with the memory of the abbey.

(The naming of the Abbey La Paix-Dieu as "abbey Amay" can lead to confusion, since it at the collegiate Saint Georges and Sainte Ode of Amay, a Kanonikerkloster was. If z. B. by René-François de Sluse as commendatory of Amay is spoken, of course, is not meant La Paix-Dieu.)

literature

  • Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau: Contribution à l'histoire des abbayes cisterciennes de la Pincipauté de Liège. La Paix-Dieu (XVIe - XVIIIe p.) . In: Annales du Cercle hutois des sciences he des beaux-arts 106, 1981, pp. 105-228.
  • Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau: Les Cisterciennes du Pays Mosan . Brussels / Rome 1990.
  • Monasticon Belge . II, 2nd Maredsous 1928.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 395–396.
  • Cistercian Sites in Europe. Charte Européenne des Abbayes et Sites Cisterciens 2012, p. 24.

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