Saint-Gorgon

Title

Saint-Gorgon

Also Known As

Le Korisacker, Saint-Nabor

Dates

Founded 1178; dissolved 16th c.

Dedication

Gorgonius

Affiliation

Medieval Diocese

Circary

History

A priory was founded at this site in 1178; its first brothers came from Étival. The priory of Saint-Gorgon was destroyed during the Thirty Years' War.

By the 18th century, the site had become a farm. The last ruins of the priory were destroyed in a fire in the 1990s.

Status

Priory

Image Credit

The ruins of the priory of Saint-Gorgon, 2010. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Citation

“Saint-Gorgon,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/73.

Geolocation

Item Relations

This Item DependentOn Item: Étival (Saint-Pierre)