Cistercian Abbey of Val-Notre-Dame
The Cistercian Abbey of Val-Notre-Dame was 1218-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Antheit, Wanze , Liège Province , in Belgium . It must not be confused with the Val Notre-Dame Trappist monastery in Canada.
history
The Cistercian women of Hocht Abbey founded the monastery, donated by the local nobility, in 1218 on the left bank of the Mehaigne in Antheit, north of Huy . The abbey church, which was destroyed today, was dedicated to the Assumption of Mary (French: Assomption ). In the course of the advance of the French Revolution , it was closed in 1796. The buildings from the 17th and 18th centuries were partially preserved and from 1905 served the French Assomptionists as a monastery and boarding school. Today the place is home to a renowned high school. The listed complex includes the abbess house (with monumental staircase), the entrance portal of the monastery, a pigeon tower and the manor. Peugniez calls it one of the most beautiful monasteries in Belgium.
literature
- Georges Hansotte (1922–1995): Inventaire analytique des chartes de l'abbaye du Val-Notre-Dame . Archives Générales du Royaume, Brussels 1964.
- Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau: Les Cisterciennes du Pays Mosan . Brussels / Rome 1990.
- Monasticon Belge . II, 2. Maredsous 1928, pp. 203-211.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 397.