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Origin and history

The Abbey of Divielle, located in Goos in the Landes, is founded by Cistercians probably in the 12th century, even at the end of the 11th century. She was occupied successively by the Benedictines and then by the pre-shows, and in 1569 she suffered a fire by the Huguenots of Montgomery, destroying her archives. In the 17th century, a charter falsified by Bertrand de Compaigne attempted to date its foundation in the 7th century, but this document proved to be a false one. Rebuilt, the abbey enjoyed relative prosperity despite a population decline (5 religious in 1767).

Dissolved in 1791 and sold as national property, it became a farm before being returned to the bishopric of Aire-sur-Adour and Dax in 1869. The Trappists of Melleray settled there, developing a modern farm (cereals, vines, cheese) until they left in 1932. The buildings, abandoned in the 1950s, were partially dismantled to build a local bridge. Today, nothing remains but ruins: walls, door openings and vestiges of the cloister.

The original architecture, typically Cistercian, organized around the cloister spaces such as the capitular room (with 13th century ogival windows), the refectory, or the dormitory of the 17th century. Elements of the 12th century, like windows in the middle of the wall, are re-used. A local anecdote tells that the monks, in order to avoid being dependent on Prechacq-les-Bains, diverted the course of the Louts, changing the communal border.

In the 13th century, the abbey depended on the Case-Dieu abbey and had seigneuries (Prechacq, Goos), barns, priories (Seyress, Le Sen) and hospitals (Boos, Saint-Just-Ibarre). His estate covered about fifteen parishes, with feudal rights and dimes. The revolutionary dissolution marked the end of its religious role, before its brief Trappist renaissance in the 19th century.

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