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Watershed Abbey à Lamorville dans la Meuse

Patrimoine classé
Patrimoine religieux
Abbaye

Watershed Abbey

    D101
    55300 Lamorville
Ownership of a public institution
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Timeline

Moyen Âge central
Bas Moyen Âge
Renaissance
Temps modernes
Révolution/Empire
XIXe siècle
Époque contemporaine
1100
1200
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
vers 1144
Foundation of the Abbey
1632
Destruction by the Swedes
1743
Reconstruction of the Abbey
1770
Completion of the chapel
5 décembre 1984
Historical Monument
2017
Subscription for backup
Aujourd'hui
Aujourd'hui

Heritage classified

The chapel and the convent building in full (Box B 14): inscription by order of 5 December 1984

Key figures

Philippe (abbé de Belval) - Founder of the Abbey Created the monastery around 1144.
Albéron de Chiny - Bishop of Verdun First donor of the abbey.
Dom Dominique Callot - Abbot and scholar Study chemistry and heraldics.
Dom Edmont Maclot - Pious abbot and writer Author written religious.
Dom Jean François Joseph Boucart - Abbé collector Library and scattered medals.
Joseph Prélat - Last Abbé Exposed by the Revolution.

Origin and history

The pre-demonstrated abbey of Notre-Dame de l'Etanche, founded around 1144 by Philippe, Abbé de Belval, initially implanted near Deuxnouds-aux-Bois (Meuse) under the name Faverolles. This double monastery, supported by Alberon de Chiny (Bishop of Verdun) and the lords of Faverolles, also houses a convent of women today disappeared. The church was consecrated in 1147, and the first known charter dates from 1157. The abbey, modest but influential, owns the priory of Benedicte-Vaux, a place of Lorrain pilgrimage.

Destroyed in 1632 by the Swedes during the Thirty Years' War, the abbey was rebuilt in 1743, with a chapel completed in 1770. Three abbots mark his story: Dom Dominique Callot (specialist in chemistry and heraldics), Dom Edmont Maclot (known for his piety and writings), and Dom Jean François Joseph Boucart, which constitutes a library and cabinet of medals scattered after the Revolution. The last abbot, Joseph Prélat (appointed in 1786), was expelled in 1790.

Classified as a Historical Monument in 1984 for its chapel and its convent buildings, the abbey is now abandoned. In 2017, the Fondation du Patrimoine launched an subscription for its safeguard, aimed at putting it out of water. Daughter of the abbey of Tart, it illustrates the pre-demonstrated religious architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Lorraine, despite its present state of degradation.

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