Cistercian abbey of Wauthier-Braine
The Cistercian abbey of Wauthier-Braine was a monastery of the Cistercian sisters in Braine-le-Château , province of Walloon Brabant , Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels in Belgium from 1224 to 1796 .
history
In 1224 the Laus Deo monastery was founded in Wauthier-Braine (Dutch: Woutersbrakel ) , which Claire de la Barre († 1247) from Beaupré monastery had as its first abbess. In 1439 the Cistercian Abbey of Nizelles was founded in the immediate vicinity . In 1796 the monastery fell victim to the French Revolution , so that there are no more remains on the site today. However, it found a certain continuation in the Cistercian Abbey of Colen , insofar as the last surviving nun from Wauthier-Braine, Maximilienne Guillaume, became the founder of Colen.
literature
- Gaston Braive: L'installation de l'abbesse de Wauthier-Braine, Agnès Roulet, en l'église abbatiale de Villers on May 21, 1714 , in: Villers. Revue trimestrielle de l'abbaye 26, 2003, pp. 11-22.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 388.