L'ancien couvent des Ursulines devenu brasserie des Ursulines
In 1633, six nuns from Bourg-en-Bresse, of the teaching order of the Ursulines, founded this convent. They occupied vast buildings which currently house an artisanal beer factory.
It was with some hostility that the municipal body of Crémieu welcomed six nuns who came from Bourg-en-Bresse on August 18, 1633, at the instigation of Baron Bertrand de Breul, to found yet another convent.
Thanks to donations, the Ursulines built a large convent building between 1664 and 1668, followed by a church between 1732 and 1738. The Ursulines added a fourth vow to the Rule of Saint Augustine: the education of young girls. While fundamental subjects were not neglected, propriety remained central to their pedagogy. The annals record 3,180 students enrolled between 1633 and 1792.
But the Revolution forced the Ursulines to leave Crémieu in 1792. The convent successively became a prison in 1794, a college in 1805 and during the 19th and 20th centuries, various industries were established there: shoe factory, weaving mills, flower factory and even bleach!
A second Ursuline convent was established in the former Hôtel Dubourg from 1806, extending the educational presence of the order in Crémieu, but without regaining the importance of the first.
Today, the former Ursuline church, restored in the early 2000s, houses a brewery
artisanal, which highlights the history of the place while giving it a new cultural purpose and
friendly.
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Open all year round on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and weekends from 17pm.
Technical guided tour of the Brewery.
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Les Ursulines – Beer Factory
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