Saint-Germer-de-Fly Abbey

The Abbey of Saint -Germer -de-Fly is a medieval Benedictine abbey in the town of Saint -Germer -de-Fly in the arrondissement of Beauvais in the Oise department ( Picardy ) in France. Receive only the Roman Catholic Church with the former Abbey to the east adjoining the Sainte-Chapelle. The abbey church is classified as a monument historique.

History

The abbey was founded in the 7th century to the coming of high Franconian nobility hl. Germer returned, who died around 658. In the 9th and 10th centuries, the abbey was destroyed during the Norman invasions. Also in the Hundred Years' War suffered the Abbey. 1644 was the abbey over to the Congregation of Saint -Maur. During the French Revolution the abbey was sold as national property. The abbey buildings were canceled in 1790. The north transept was rebuilt in 1808. Abbey church and chapel be used as a parish church.

Abbey Church

The 65 m long abbey church from the 12th century in the form of a Latin cross, with a semicircular apse combines elements of the Romanesque and Gothic periods, especially in the chorus. The vault height is 20 m. The current West financial statements have been built in the 16th century. The bell tower dates from the year, 1754.

Lady chapel

The High Gothic, nave, through a narrow passage with the abbey church affiliated Chapelle de la Vierge ( Sainte -Chapelle ) was grown according to the model of the chapel of Saint- Germain -en- Laye and the Sainte -Chapelle in Paris in the East 1259-1267. You "lets the handwriting or at least the immediate influence of Pierre de Montreuil recognize ". The rose window of the west facade continues the rose of the north transept facade of Reims Cathedral.