Royal Abbey of Notre-Dame de Lieu-Dieu, Jard-sur-Mer, France

The Royal Abbey of Notre-Dame de Lieu-Dieu, founded in 1197 by Richard the Lionheart for Premonstratensian canons, suffered three devastations in 1372, 1484, and 1568. After various trials, it was annexed to a Parisian Premonstratensian college in 1720. The abbey was turned into an agricultural enterprise in 1733 and sold as a national asset in 1791. In 2012, it was acquired and restored by Mr. and Mrs. Alain du Peloux, opening to visitors in 2013.

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Flo SABI (2 years ago)
We passed by but at this season it was closed!

TRONEL Dominique (2 years ago)
A somewhat brief presentation as part of heritage days, but interesting. Renovation feels like pouring water into sand, it's endless.

Vincent wsk (2 years ago)
Visit during heritage days with the owner. Magnificent property with a real history dating back to Richard the Lionheart.

Michel GARRAULT (2 years ago)
Quick visit in about 30 minutes. Few accessible rooms and the comments are not up to this historic place. Disappointing.

E P-H (2 years ago)
Too bad, the abbey is closed! But even from the outside it seems like a wonderful place of history...07/19 for the reopening of visits!

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The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.

The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.

The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.

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