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A few dates in the history of Chartreuse Notre-Dame de Pomier


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1170 Foundation of Chartreuse Notre-Dame de Pomier thanks to a donation from William I, Count of Geneva and Vaud. Some historians believe that a priory, no doubt the main room of the cellars, could have existed before this date.
Inside the surrounding walls, Chartreuse de Pomier contained the Church of Our Lady of Pomier, three chapels, twelve Chartreux cells surrounding the large cloisters where the Chartreux were buried as were several Counts of Geneva and Vaud.

Ninety-one Priors succeeded to run Chartreuse. Over the years, Chartreuse recieved many illustrious visitors inlcuding Emperor Sigismond and Charles IV, who placed the monastery under the protection of the Holy Roman Germanic Empire by religious decree in 1366.
1793 During the Revolution, Chartreuse was pillaged; books and manuscripts from the very extensive library were burned in front of the small cloisters. For over 100 years, Chartreuse was practically abandoned and its many buildings and outbuildings demolished.
The bells of Our Lady of Pomier Church were taken to Carouge where one of them still rings today every hour in Sainte-Croix Church, on the market square.
1894 Chartreuse was then bought from Baron de Drée by Jérémie Girod de Beaumont. He saved the main building from ruin and established the hotel and restaurant with around forty bedrooms. Called the "Hotel Pension de l'Abbaye de Pomier", the establishment ceased operations in 1991.
2001 Inauguration by Claude Girod, great-grandchild of Jérémie, of the medieval cellars and capitular rooms on the ground floor, renovated and converted into meeting rooms. He decided to abandon the given name of Abbaye de Pomier, instead returning to the building's original name: Chartreuse Notre-Dame de Pomier.
N.B.: The word pomier comes from the Latin pro murus meaning outside the walls. The word pommier means an apple tree.
 
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