Cistercian Abbey of Le Verger
The Cistercian Abbey of Le Verger was 1225-1792 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Oisy-le-Verger , Nord in France .
history
The Notre-Dame du Verger monastery (after: verger = orchard) was founded in 1225 in what is now Oisy-le-Verger between Douai and Cambrai on the banks of the Sensée and destroyed by the French Revolution . Only a pigeon tower is left of the system. The names of the place Oisy-le-Verger, the neighboring community Aubencheul-au-Bac ( aubencheul , derived from Latin abbatiuncula = little monastery), also a campsite ( Les Prés de l'Abbaye ), and a street ( rue de l'Abbaye ) and other locations are reminiscent of the abbey.
Le Verger belongs to a group of 13 Cistercian convents (Beaupré, Blendecques, Bonham, La Brayelle, Flines, Fontenelles, Marquette, Les Prés, Ravensberg, Le Verger, Le Vivier, La Woestyne, Fontenelle) that were built around 1200 within a short time and on privately donated in a narrow space and facing only five Cistercian monasteries (Cercamp, Clairmarais, Longvillers, Loos and Vaucelles).
literature
- Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.): Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui . Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001 (files from a colloquium from 1998, here: p. 100).
- Hugues Du Tems: Le clergé de France, ou tableau historique et chronologique des archevêques, évêques, abbés, abbesses et chefs des chapitres principaux du royaume, depuis la fondation des églises jusqu'à nos jours . Brunet, Paris 1775, pp. 110–111 (list of abbesses).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 246.
Web links
- Mention of "Verger, le" in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Article on the abbey, in French, with photos
- Mention of the abbey in the history of the municipality of Fressies
- Photos of remains of the abbey
Coordinates: 50 ° 15 ′ 39.3 " N , 3 ° 8 ′ 28" E