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name | Orval / Guldendal |
latin name | Aurea vallis / S. Petri |
founded in | approx. 1070 OSB |
cistercian since | 1132 |
inhabited by | monks |
primary abbey | Clairvaux |
first mother abbey | Troisfontaines |
daughter abbeys | Düsselthal (1701) |
dissolved in | 1793 |
reinhabited in | 1927 |
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inhabited by | monks |
affiliated to | Ordo Cisterciensis strict. observ. |
refounded by | Sept-Fons / (La Trappe) |
actual father immediate | Westmalle (since 1946) |
actual daugther abbeys | |
monks | |
actual daugther abbeys | Clairefontaine |
nuns | Brialmont |
to visit | |
address | Abbaye Notre-Dame d'Orval |
6823 Villers-devant-Orval | |
Belgium | |
phone | [+32] (61) 31 10 60 |
fax | [+32] (61) 31 55 95 |
internet | |