Valsauve Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey Valsauve was from the 13th century to 1790, a monastery of Cistercian nuns , first in Verfeuil , from 1,375 in Bagnols-sur-Cèze in the Gard ( France ).
history
The Cistercian convent Valsauve (= valley of salvation) was founded before 1217 as a priory in the diocese of Uzès , moved to the city of Bagnols-sur-Cèze in 1375, where it was elevated to an abbey ( Abbaye Royale Notre-Dame de Valsauve ) and existed there until to be closed by the French Revolution in 1790. The boarding school of the nuns, then known as Bernardines de Valsauve or Dames de Valsauve , was taken over by the Dames de Saint Maur ( Congregatio sororum a Jesu Infante ) in the 19th century and housed a school until 1989 ( Today a culturally used exhibition space: Center d'art Rhodanien Saint-Maur , with a remarkable entrance portal). To the south of Verfeuil, the hamlet name Valsauve (currently private hunting park Domaine de Valsauve ) testifies to the former monastery. The monastery church (18 meters long), dated 1283, is there in remnants.
The monastery portal crowned by a figural niche is protected as a monument historique .
literature
- Abbé P. de Laville: Notice historique sur l'abbaye royale de Notre-Dame de Valsauve . In: Mémoires de l'Académie de Nîmes 8, 1884, pp. 139-318 (list of abbesses, p. 183).
- Dominique Frasson-Cochet: Catalogs régionaux des incunables des bibliothèques publiques de France . Auvergne. Droz, Geneva 2006, p. 350, note 7.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 183.
- Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe. Card collection . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, p. 73A.
Web links
- Ancien monastère des Bernardines de Valsaune, puis des Dames de Saint-Maur in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)
- Valsauve is mentioned in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Entry Valsauve on the Certosa di Firenze website
- Page Valsauve in the Cistercian project by the photographer Carsten Gier
- Information on the monastery in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, French
- More information on the monastery in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, French
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 44 ° 9 ′ 43.1 ″ N , 4 ° 37 ′ 15.6 ″ E