Cistercian Abbey of Lieu-Notre-Dame (Perrignier)

The Cistercian Abbey of Lieu-Notre-Dame (also: Lieu or Petit-Lieu or Notre-Dame-du-Lieu ) was a convent of the Cistercian women in Perrignier , a municipality in the Haute-Savoie department in France , from 1150 to 1538 .

history

In the early days of the Cistercian Order, when male monasteries were founded in the 12th century, women’s monasteries were often founded next door for female family members who also felt called to be. This explains the founding of the Lieu-Notre-Dame nunnery south of Lake Geneva in Chablais , not far from Aulps Monastery . In 1536 it was looted and destroyed by the Bern Reformation and dissolved in 1538. The church and some monastery buildings have been preserved in remains (privately owned).

literature

• Henri Tanner: L'abbaye du Lieu, monastère de moniales cisterciennes à Perrignier (Haute-Savoie). Contribution based on history . In: Mémoires et documents publiés par l'Académie Chablaisienne 56, 1965, pp. 5–103.
• Benoît Chauvin: L'intégration des femmes à l'Ordre de Cîteaux au XIIe siècle, entre hauts de Meuse et rives du Léman . In: 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), pp. 193–211.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 355.

Web links

• Mention of Lieu-Notre-Dame / Petit-Lieu (Perrignier) in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
• Entry Lieu-Notre-Dame, le on the Certosa di Firenze website, with localization
• Page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
• Brief history of the monastery, in French, with picture
• Archive entry, French, with picture

Coordinates: 46 ° 18 ′ 37.4 ″  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 0.1 ″  E