Netlieu Cistercian Abbey

The Cistercian Abbey Netlieu was from the 12th century to 1490, a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Mèze , a town in the department of Herault in France .

history

The Cistercian monastery Netlieu ("Shining Place") was founded before 1179 near the Cistercian Abbey of Valmagne northwest of today's city of Mèze in the then diocese of Agde , received donations from Blanka of Castile and King Louis IX. and existed until 1490. Then it was dissolved. The goods went to Valmagne. Today the motorway crosses the area. Only one fountain is evidence of the former monastery.

literature

• Constance Hoffman Berman: The Cistercian Evolution. The Invention of a Religious Order in Twelfth-Century Europe . University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 2010, p. 317, note 20.
• Daniel Rouquette: Note on the date de fondation et l'emplacement de l'abbaye de Netlieu. In: Mélanges à la mémoire du Père Anselme Dimier , ed. by Benoît Chauvin. Vol. 3. Pupillin, Arbois 1984, pp. 697-700.
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 184.
• Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 83A.

Web links

• Mention of Netlieu in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
• Netlieu entry on the Certosa di Firenze website
• Netlieu page in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier

Coordinates: 43 ° 25 ′ 35.7 ″  N , 3 ° 32 ′ 53.6 ″  E