Villers-Bettnach Abbey

Daughter monasteries

Pin Viktring ( 1142 ) Monastery Eußerthal ( 1148 ) Monastery Wörschweiler ( 1171 ) Monastery of Zagreb ( 1257 ) Monastery Pontifroy ( 1323)

The monastery of Villers- Bettnach ( Villerium; Weiler- Bettnach ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the town of Saint -Hubert in Moselle, Lorraine region, France. The facility is located approximately 22 kilometers northeast of Metz, in the valley of the canner.

History

In 1134 ( according to other data already in 1130 ), Heinrich von Spanheim, the abbot of the Abbey Primary Mori Moon, the monastery on a site which had asked the Duke Simon I of Lorraine available. From Villers- Bettnach the daughter -ups pin Viktring went in Carinthia ( 1142 ) - with the daughter of founding Kostanjevica monastery in Slovenia -, monastery Eußerthal in the Palatinate ( 1148 ), Monastery Wörschweiler ( in Wörschweiler, now part of Homburg, 1171 ), Monastery Zagreb ( 1257 or 1274, after Janauschek however daughter founding of the monastery Topusko, according to other data sister monastery of pen Viktring ) and monastery Pontifroy (Metz ) made in 1323, while occasionally alleged derivation of the monastery Cambron in Belgium of Villers- Bettnach appears doubtful. In 1552 the abbey was devastated. Villers- Bettnach had, inter alia, a grange with salt pan in Marsal (Moselle), and townhouses in Metz and Sierck- les- Bains. Between 1724 and 1729 a new church was built. The French Revolution led in 1790 to the dissolution of the monastery and the abbey became a farming estate. The remaining buildings were acquired by the city Boulay- Moselle ( Bolchen ) later, which set up a rest home. The facility is managed by the Association des Amis des Sites de St- Hubert.

Buildings and plant

The cloister was located on the north side of the church. Get a monumental entrance gate are ( the portail Coislin ) from the 17th century and various remains of the church of the 13th century a sechsjochigen vaulted hall church with transept and polygonal flaring choir and chapel of St. Catherine with triple windows on a building of the 12th century back. Even a farmer's chapel from the 17th century ( chapelle of the Humble ) has been preserved and is now a parish church. The exam was - as in Maulbronn - left of the church.