Abbeys, Monasteries and Priories in the Meuse

Eglise gothique
55300 Saint-Mihiel

The Abbey of Saint-Mihiel, a former Benedictine abbey founded in the 8th century in Saint-Mihiel (Great East), is famous for its 18th century library and its major cultural role until the Revolution.

Abbaye
55600 Montmédy

The Abbey of Orval in Montmédy, in the Great East, is an old facade of urban refuge of monks, classified historical monument. This vestige of the 19th century bears witness to a religious and prison past, now threatened with ruin.

Abbaye
55100 Verdun

Saint-Paul de Verdun Abbey, a 17th century pre-demonstrated abbey, is located in Verdun in the Grand Est region. Its convent buildings now house the courthouse and the Meuse's sub-prefecture.

55600 Marville

The former refuge of Orval Abbey, located in Marville (Great East), is a 16th and 18th century building, mixing chapel, vaulted basement and significant architectural transformations.

Eglise gothique
55120 Lachalade

The abbey of Lachalade, a former Cistercian abbey founded in the 12th century in Lachalade (Meuse, Grand Est), is today a parish church classified as a historical monument, marked by sober architecture and rich monastic history.

Abbaye
55200 Geville

The abbey of Rangéval, an 18th-century pre-demonstrated abbey in Geville (Meuse), illustrates classical religious architecture with its half-cloister and preserved home, classified as a historical monument in 1965.

Abbaye
55300 Lamorville

The abbey of Étanche, a pre-demonstrated 18th-century abbey located in Lamorville en Meuse, was rebuilt in 1770 after its destruction in 1632. Classified as a Historic Monument in 1984, it is now in a state of abandonment in the Great East.

Abbaye
55210 Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel

The abbey of Saint-Benoît-en-Woëvre, founded in 1128, is a former Cistercian abbey rebuilt in the 18th century at Vigneulles-lès-Hattonchâtel (Great East), now reduced to its façade after the destructions of 1918.