La Vignette Cistercian Convent

The Cistercian monastery La Vignette (also: Wijngaard ) was 1519-1798 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Leuven , Flemish Brabant , in Belgium .

history

In 1519 Catherine van Oppendorp donated the Notre-Dame de La Vignette monastery (also: Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Wijngaert or In Vineis , "Maria Weingarten") in Mechelnstrasse in Leuven , which was settled by the Cistercian Abbey of Wauthier-Braine . The monastery was closed in 1798 by the French Revolution and mostly dismantled. Today a restaurant bears the name “La Vignette” (without any memory of the monastery).

literature

• Les quatorze livres sur l'histoire de la ville de Louvain du docteur et professeur en théologie Jean Molanus . Vol. 1. Hayez, Brussels 1861, p. 341 ff. (History of the foundation, Latin).
• Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 366.

Web links

• Mention of “Vignette, la” in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
• Official description of the monastery, Dutch, with picture
• Origin of the restaurant name La Vignette explained without mentioning the monastery, Dutch