Cîteaux Abbey
Daughter monasteries
La Ferté (primary Abbey ) Pontigny (primary Abbey ) Mori Moon (primary Abbey ) Clairvaux (primary Abbey ) 24 more, see article list
The monastery of Citeaux [ sito ] (also Cisteaux; Latin Cistercium ) is located in a valley of the Saone river at the town of Saint -Nicolas- les-Citeaux, in Burgundy about 25 km south of Dijon, the capital of the department of Côte- d ' Or
Significance of Citeaux especially as the origin and point of monastery of the Cistercian order, who had great influence with daughter monastic foundations ( filiation ) in Germany.
History
Dissatisfied with his view now lax way of life of the Benedictines founded the seventy- year-old Robert Molesme together with Duke Odo I of Burgundy and some twenty other monks in 1098 in the middle of a reedy wetland ( Old French cistels, reeds ') an ascetic community that returned to the strict Benedictine Rule ora, labora et studia. The real founder of the Cistercian Order Citeaux was named after Stephen Harding, who led the Abbey 1109-1133, with his Carta Caritatis.
The monastery soon took the place name Cistercium ( in French shortened to Citeaux ). Not quite clear, however, is where this name comes from and what it means. Three interpretations can be pulled up:
From Citeaux were starting 1113-1115, the four primary abbeys La Ferté, Pontigny, Mori Moon and Clairvaux, still later founded many other monasteries daughter.
Most German filiations were performed on the primary Abbey Mori Moon.
During the French Revolution the abbey Citeaux was expropriated and 1791 sold to speculators. It was wound up and looted in the following years and largely destroyed. The church which contained the tombs of the first Burgundian dukes, no longer exists.
Presence
1898, the abbey of monks from La Trappe and Sept- Fons was repopulated and affiliated to the Cistercian Order of the Strict Observance ( Trappists ). Today about 35 monks living there. From the historic buildings are a library from the 15th century, has been renovated in recent years, and received an administrative building of the 17th century. In the library, ornate replicas of pages produced in the abbey in the Middle Ages books are issued. Church, cloister and all other buildings are more recent. The spacious grounds with an extensive agriculture is surrounded by forests and fields. The monks have a variety of tasks, such as the management of the 400 acre homestead farm with about 120 cows, whose milk is used exclusively for the monastic cheese production. The cheese is sold in one of the abbey affiliated business directly to tourists.
The Abbey is open daily for visitors. You are offered by a number of buildings, such as the devotional and prayer room, the cloister, the library and a former commercial building at certain times of tours. In the latter space can among other things see an exhibition of the then progressive medieval irrigation system for the lands of the abbey.
Liturgy of the Hours
The monastic day is divided by the celebration of Mass and Liturgy of the Hours.
Trappistenäbte
For the Cistercian abbots of Citeaux (1098-1797), see list of abbots of Citeaux
Daughter monasteries
Direct daughter abbeys of Citeaux were in addition to the four primary abbeys
- In France: Monastery Preuilly
- Monastery of La Cour- Dieu
- Monastery Bonnevaux ( Dauphiné )
- Monastery Le Loroux
- Monastery L' Aumône
- Monastery of La Bussière
- Monastery Miroir
- Monastery Valloires
- Monastery Perseigne
- Monastery Obazine
- Abbey Royaumont
- Monastery L' Épau
- Monastery of La Clarté -Dieu
- Beaulieu Abbey
- Mary Magdalene Monastery ( Acre )
- Monastery Sestri Ponente
- Monastery of San Salvatore di Monte Amiata
- Monastery of San Salvatore di Monte Acuto
- Mary Magdalene Monastery ( Tripoli )
- Monastery Herrevad
- Monastery Oseira
- Monastery of Carracedo
- Monastery Sotos Albos
- Monastery Escarp
- Mary Magdalene Monastery ( Nicosia)