Salival

Title

Salival

Also Known As

Sailinvais, Sailinval, Sailinvals, Sailinvalz, Sailinvas, Sailinvauls, Sailinvault, Sailinvaulz, Sailinwas, Salina Vallis, Salinvalz, Salis Vallis, Saliva Vallis, Salivalz, Salli Vallis, Sallinvalz, Sallivalz, Salva Vallis, Salvia Vallis, Salyvalz

Dates

Founded in 1157; dissolved 1791

Dedication

Fiacre; Mary

Affiliation

Justemont

Medieval Diocese

Metz

Circary

Lorraine

History

Salival was founded 1140-1157 by Mathilde de Salm, countess of Hombourg, around an existing chapel dedicated to St Fiacre. The abbey church was consecrated in 1316. Salival was prosperous thanks to its saltworks. The abbey was partly destroyed in warfare in 1590.

The abbey of Salival was suppressed in 1791. The abbey church and cloister were demolished in the 1820s, but the abbot's residence survived. Today, Salival is a farm in private hands.

Status

Abbey

Archival Sources

Nancy, Archives départementales de Meurthe-et-Moselle

B 481

H 1224 - H 1262 (12th-18th c.)
 * incl. H 1225-1227. (18th c.; cartulary, 3 vols.)

Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France

Coll. Lorraine, vol. 288 (15th c.)

Bibliography

Al, Peter. “Salival.” In Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche, edited by Waltar Kaspar, Third Edition., 1487. Freiburg, 1999.

Decomps, Claire. “L’abbaye de Salival.” Les cahiers Lorrains 3/4 (2006): 22–35. https://salival2.github.io/Salival.pdf.

Gerits, Trudo. “Vente de livres par l’abbaye de Salival en 1237.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 41 (1965): 165–66.

Graßl, Basilius Franz. “L’abbaye de Salival en Lorraine.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 12 (1936): 181–82.

Pierson, G. “L’abbaye de Salival.” Mémoires de la Société d’archéologie Lorraine, Second Series, 10 (1868): 170–92. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k336886/f177.item.

Schmit, Joseph-Alexandre. “Une relique bibliographique de l’abbaye de Salival conservée à la bibliothèque impériale.” Journal de la Société d’archéologie et du Comité du Musée lorrain 17 (1868): 82–87. https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k33749k/f67.item.

Wiener, Lucien. “Note sur les sculptures attribuées à l’abbaye de Salival.” Journal de la Société d’archéologie lorraine, May 1895. http://perdrizet-doc.hiscant.univ-lorraine.fr/doc/APP_01-TAP-21.pdf.

Image Credit

View of the former abbey of Salival, 2007. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Lorraine

Citation

“Salival,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/241.

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