Abbaye Notre-Dame de Pontifroid

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The Abbey of Pontifroid, or Pontiffroy, is a former Cistercian abbey of women located in Metz, in the district of Pontiffroy. It was founded in the 14th century and dissolved in the 18th century.

Female foundation: The abbey was founded in 1323 or 1330 by the monks of Villers-Bettnach, to welcome a female community. It will always remain very modest in size. In 1330, the abbey was moved by virtue of a roundabout (municipal ordinance) of 1330, "because it joined one of the city's main gates".

The masculine monastery: At an indeterminate time, around the 15th century, the abbey had to change community and welcome men. Indeed, it is listed by Leopold Janauschek in its Originum Cisterciensium. Only the male abbeys were. The abbey was mentioned in 1443, when on 1 September the twenty-seventh abbey of Justemont was solemnly blessed by Conrad II Bayer de Boppard, bishop of Metz. After the siege of Metz in 1552, the abbey was moved to Rue Chambière, in the house called "de Justemont". The abbey, in addition to being of very modest size, is extremely poor, even miserable. She couldn't...