Cistercian Abbey of La Woestyne

The Cistercian abbey La Woestyne (also: La Woestine) was from 1195 to about 1792 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Renescure , Pas-de-Calais , in France .

history

The canonical monastery , founded in 1195 in Renescure, east of Arques (Pas-de-Calais) , was settled in 1217 by Cistercian women from La Brayelle (and / or Blendecques ) and was named "Maria Desert" ( Notre-Dame de la Woestyne , also: Woestine , after Dutch woestijn = desert). It was under the direction of the nearby Clairmarais Monastery . La Woestyne was destroyed by the French Revolution. The few remains are now part of the Bonduelle company premises . The nun Hyacinthe Dewismes (1760–1828) from La Woestyne, who fled to the Himmelpforten (Ense) monastery , belonged to the circle of founders of the Saint Bernard sisters of Esquermes , whose mother house is now the La Cessoie monastery .

literature

• Marie de la Trinité Kervingant: Des moniales face à la Révolution française. Aux origines des Cisterciennes-Trappistines. Paris, Beauchesne, 1989, p. 51.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 241.

Web links

• Entry in the French National Library
• Note on the abbey, French
• Mention of “Woestine, la” in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis, without information
• Mention of La Woestyne in History of the Saint Bernard Sisters, French

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 44.1 ″  N , 2 ° 22 ′ 27.6 ″  E