Cistercian Abbey of Willencourt

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The Cistercian Abbey Willencourt was 1199-1790 a monastery of Cistercian nuns , first in Willencourt, northwest Auxi-le-Château , Pas-de-Calais , from 1652 in Abbeville in France .

history

Willencourt Abbey was donated on the Authie River in 1199 and moved to the site of the present Willencourt Church in 1220. In 1652 it moved to the city of Abbeville ( Chaussée Marcadé ) (while retaining the name) and in 1747 took in the sisters of the Épagne monastery . After the destruction by the French Revolution , only part of the convent building and the abbess's house, both of which are listed buildings, are still standing today. They house a printing shop (Imprimerie Paillart).

Willencourt belongs to a group of 13 Cistercian convents (Beaupré, Blendecques, Bonham, La Brayelle, Flines, Fontenelles, Marquette, Les Prés, Ravensberg, Le Verger, Le Vivier, La Woestyne, Fontenelle), which around 1200 quickly and closely The space was privately donated and only faces five Cistercian monasteries (Cercamp, Clairmarais, Longvillers, Loos and Vaucelles).

literature

  • Gérard Bacquet: L'abbaye royale de Willencourt . G. Bacquet, Auxi-le-Château 2009 (174 pages).
  • Bernadette Barrière and Marie-Elisabeth Montulet-Henneau (eds.): Cîteaux et les femmes. Architectures et occupation de l'espace dans les monastères féminins. Modalités d'intégration et de contrôle des femmes dans l'Ordre. Les moniales cisterciennes aujourd'hui . Créaphis éditions, Grâne 2001 (files from a colloquium from 1998, here: p. 100).
  • François César Louandre: Histoire ancienne et modern d'Abbeville et de son arrondissement . A. Boulanger, Abbeville 1834, p. 565.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 247.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 6 ′ 41 ″  N , 1 ° 49 ′ 45 ″  E