Cistercian Abbey of Val-Benoît

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The Cistercian Abbey of Val-Benoît (also: Val Saint-Benoît ) was a monastery of the Cistercian women in Liège , Province of Liège , in Belgium from 1231 to 1796 .

history

The nuns, driven out of their Robermont monastery by fire , took over the Val-Benoît monastery ("Benedict Valley ") on the left bank of the Meuse , south of Liège (today in Rue Ernest Solvay ), which had been vacated by the Augustinians . In 1244 some of the nuns returned to Robermont for resettlement. 39 abbesses of Val-Benoît followed one another until the monastery was increasingly restricted from 1792 and finally dissolved in 1796.

A castle stood here in the 19th century. From 1924 to 2006 the location was university campus ( Université du Val Benoît ). As part of an ambitious urbanization project, the Val-Benoît district has recently been created (with a functional mix of apartments, services, training and culture), within which the old monastery buildings destroyed in the Second World War but rebuilt by the Le Forem employment agency ( Office wallon de la formation professionnelle et de l'emploi ). It is mainly the abbess house and an entrance portal.

literature

  • Joseph Cuvelier: Inventaire des archives de l'abbaye du Val-Benoît, Lez-Liége, de l'ordre de Cîteaux . Liège 1902 (with historical introduction, pp. 6–50).
  • Joseph Cuvelier: Cartulaire de l'abbaye du Val-Benoît . Imbreghts, Brussels 1906.
  • Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau: Les Cisterciennes du Pays Mosan . Brussels / Rome 1990.
  • Monasticon Belge . II, 2. Maredsous 1928, pp. 193-202.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 397.

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