- Lucelle Abbey
Lucelle Abbey or Lützel Abbey ( _fr. Abbaye de Lucelle; _de. Kloster Lützel) was a
Cistercian monastery in the present village of Lucelle, in theHaut-Rhin department inAlsace ,France , but located right on the Swiss border.The name of the original foundation was "Lucis cella", the "cell of light".
Lucelle was founded in 1124 as a daughter house of
Bellevaux Abbey , which in its turn was a daughter house ofMorimond Abbey . It was dissolved in 1792 during theFrench Revolution .Daughter houses
The following were daughter houses settled from Lucelle:
*Neubourg Abbey (1130/1131)
*Kaisheim Abbey (1133)
*Lieu-Croissant Abbey (1134)
*Salem Abbey (1134/1137 or 1138)
*Frienisberg Abbey (1131/1138)
* Pairis Abbey (1139)
* St. Urban's Abbey (1195)Lützel Abbey seems also to have founded a small
Cistercian nunnery ,Kleinlützel Priory inSwitzerland , in about 1136-1138, although there is no direct evidence that they did so or that the women's community at Kleinlützel was Cistercian. In 1264 the foundation was given to theAugustinian Canons of Basle. Lützel Abbey regained possession of the premises at the beginning of the 16th century.External links
* [http://www.tourisme-lucelle.com/histoire_lucelle.html History of Lucelle/Lützel]
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