Abbey of Maroilles cheese

the abbey of Maroilles cheese was founded towards 650 by the count Chonebert (or Radobert?), and its first abbot was a monk of Laonnois, (saint) Humbert. To the 9th century was applied the Règle of saint Benoît that Maroilles will preserve until the Révolution. Restored in 1025 by Gerard de Cambrai after the invasions Normans, the abbey suffered again with wars in Hainaut. Important rebuildings were undertaken between, when the abbey knew its apogee.

The richness and the power of the abbey, one of three more important of Hainaut in its part now French, poked the jealousy of the villagers. The July 29th 1789 the inhabitants of Taisnières, in lawsuit for a long time with the abbey, reflect it with bag. This episode is known under the name of “din of Maroilles cheese”. The abbey was used as stone quarry between 1791 and 1794 and the abbey one, the district of the abbot, the cloister and the other buildings disappeared; only remain today the mill, the barn dimière, the home of the hosts, the housing of the gatekeeper and the elements of gate employed again in a triumphal arch.

The barn dimière was rehabilitated to make a house of the environment of it and tourism, centers interpretation and of information on the natural heritage and cultural of the Avesnois and place of exposure and explanation of the local richnesses.

External bonds

the abbey on the site of '' Patrimoine of France ''
History of the abbey (site of the commune of Maroilles cheese)

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