Cartuja de Santa María de Miraflores

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Chart of the Charterhouse

The Cartuja Santa María de Miraflores is a monastery of the contemplative Carthusian order about three kilometers east of the city of Burgos in Spain in the Parque de Fuentes Blancas near the Río Arlanzón . The facility has been listed as Bien de Interés Cultural under number RI-51-0000238 since 1923 .

history

Exterior view of the Charterhouse
Portal with the donor's coat of arms
Tomb of Johann II and Isabella

The origins of the Charterhouse go back to 1442, when King John II of Castile gave the Carthusian Order a hunting pavilion built under his father to build a monastery. After the building fell victim to the flames in 1452, the existing complex was rebuilt after 1453 by Johannes von Köln and, after his death, completed by his son Simon von Köln by 1484. John II and his wife Isabella of Portugal were buried in the Charterhouse.

Plant and buildings

The monastery is a late Gothic complex . The single-nave church with a polygonal apse has a star vault. The west facade is decorated with the coats of arms of the donors. The side chapels were built between 1532 and 1539.

Furnishing

In addition to the richly gilded main altar from around 1496, the graves of John II and Isabella, the Charterhouse also houses the grave of their son, the Infante and anti-king Alfonso of Castile . There is also a Passion triptych in it, which is attributed to the school of Rogier van der Weyden . A plaque with the Annunciation is remarkable . The Miraflores altar by Rogier van der Weyden has found its way into the Gemäldegalerie Berlin .

According to their vocation to the lonely life that allow exam regulations of the Carthusians no access to the public. The Charterhouse cannot be visited.

literature

  • Nicolás Menéndez González: Studies on the empirical construction of Juan de Colonia († 1476/78). Knowledge of form and manufacture in the proto-stage of an era of the architectural treatise . 96. Publication of the Department of Architectural History of the Art History Institute of the University of Cologne, 2 vols. Cologne 2018.

Web links

Commons : Cartuja de Miraflores (Burgos)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Carthusian Order , accessed on April 29, 2018

Coordinates: 42 ° 20 ′ 15 ″  N , 3 ° 39 ′ 25 ″  W.