Acqualonga Monastery
| Acqualonga Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location |
 ItalyRegion Lombardy Province of Pavia |
| Coordinates: | 45 ° 3 '12 " N , 8 ° 44' 7" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
542 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1204 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1530 / 1798 |
| Mother monastery | Rivalta Scrivia Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | La Ferté Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Acqualonga Monastery (S. Maria di Acqualunga) is a former Cistercian abbey in Lombardy , Italy . It was five kilometers from the municipality of Frascarolo in the province of Pavia , northwest of the confluence of the Po and Tanaro rivers , near the border with the Piedmont region .
history
The monastery, named after a nearby canal of the Po, is said to have been founded in 1204. The mother monastery was the Rivalta Scrivia monastery from the filiation of the La Ferté primary abbey , which had been wealthy there since 1180. The general chapters of 1219 and 1225 considered repealing. In the period that followed, the monks drained the surrounding, swampy land. In 1227 the abbey was granted a privilege by Emperor Frederick II. After the monastery fell into the future and passed to Francesco Todeschini Piccolomini, later Pope Pius III. , arrived, the monastery goods were transferred to the newly established diocese of Vigevano in 1530 . With this the abbey came to an end, however, until the legal repeal in 1798, three Cistercian monks remained in the church as custodians.
Plant and buildings
The brick church with no transepts, a three-aisled Gothic stepped hall from the 14th century with a flat choir closure, which dates back to the Romanesque, is small. Nothing of the monastery buildings in the south of the church has survived. However, the foreign building is still used as a rectory.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cisterciensi d'Italia. oO. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 100-101;
- Heinz Schomann: Reclam's Art Guide Italy Volume I. 1. Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1981, p. 191, ISBN 3-15-010305-3 .