Notre-Dame de Signy Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Monastery Bonnefontaine Convent Val -St- Lambert

The monastery Signy (Latin Signiacum ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the French community Signy L'Abbaye, department Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne region. It lies about 65 kilometers northeast of Reims and around 28 kilometers west of Charleville- Mézières on the edge of the forest of Froidmont.

History

The monastery was founded in 1131 and received his Cistercian convent founded in 1135 from the monastery Igny. Thus, it belonged to the filiation of Clairvaux Abbey Primary. In the monastery suffered as a simple monk William of Saint -Thierry, who died in 1148 later biographer of Bernard of Clairvaux, a. The goods of the monastery developed rapidly and the monastery founded several Gran Gien, including Maimby, Draize, Bray, Rousselois, Chaudion, Chappe, Mésancelle, Lavergny and Écaillère. The monastery where he ran cereal and viticulture, and animal husbandry. It was also engaged in metallurgy and in slate quarrying. It established, inter alia, townhouses in Mézières, Reims, in Huy, near Liege, not far from the daughter of founding monastery Val -St- Lambert. The construction of the monastery church lasted from 1226 to 1514 1550. Was the monastery in Upcoming. It was besieged and sacked by the Calvinists in 1568 and several times during the Thirty Years' War, but then rebuilt. During the French Revolution it was dissolved and then largely canceled.

Buildings and plant

Get the Cross are the converse, a seven-meter high monolith, the older farm buildings from the 18th century and the guest wing. Of the nearly 4000 volumes counted library have been preserved around 300 in Charleville and the Bibliothèque Nationale. Get yourself also have various farm buildings in the area.