Valsery Abbey
[[File:Valsery vue de face.jpg|thumb|right|File:Valsery Abbey facard.Notre-Dame de Valsery Abbey is a former abbey located in Cœuvres-et-Valsery,[1] France. It was founded in 1124 by Premonstratensian Canons, near the Retz Forest which they undoubtedly helped to clear.
Valsery Abbey has been a historic monument site since 1986 and has been abandoned for decades as a result of the First World War.
The site still has high only the walls of the dormitories of the canons as well as the chapter house, centerpiece of the place with its illuminations, polychrome and floor tiling. The rest of the site is buried under 2 meters of earth covering the remains of an abbey church and a cloister. The first surveys carried out in the late 1990s made it possible to locate the precise locations of these buildings.
Location
The abbey is located in the commune of Cœuvres-et-Valsery, in the department of Aisne on the edge of the forest of Retz.
History
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The abbey owned an urban monastic hotel, located in Soissons, of which only the cellars remain today. The monument is classified as a historical monument in 1986.[2] Since 1996, the Restoration Association of Valsery Abbey has been established on the site of which it is the owner. Since April 2013, volunteers have been meeting two Saturdays a month to rehabilitate the site and organize visits.
The Association of Restoration of the Abbey of Valsery is also linked to the association Rempart, which allows to set up volunteer sites.
References
- ^ Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame de Valsery » [archive, notice no PA00115602, base Mérimée, ministère français de la Culture ].
- ^ Ancienne abbaye Notre-Dame de Valsery » [archive, notice no PA00115602, base Mérimée, ministère français de la Culture ].