Bakonybél Monastery
The St. Mauritius Monastery (Hungarian Szent Mauríciusz Monostor ) is a Benedictine monastery in Hungary . It was founded in the 11th century.
investment
The monastery is located in the village of Bakonybél in the Bakony Forest. The baroque monastery church has a large altar painting by Ignác Polinger. There is also a park and garden area of around 5 hectares with a historic English garden, an arboretum with fruit trees and a herb garden. Natural products from our own production can be purchased in the monastery shop. In the vicinity of the village and the monastery is the St. Gunther Chapel at a spring with a Way of the Cross, where the medieval monastery is said to have been.
history
The monastery of St. Mauritius was supposedly founded by King Stephen I around 1018/37. Saints Gerhard (Gellért) and Gunther are said to have been the first abbots, which is historically very uncertain. It has been mentioned in documents since 1083. The monastery received donations from Hungarian kings and other people. Like other Hungarian monasteries, it also had the right to certify documents for secular exhibitors. Bakonybél Monastery owned land in the vicinity and as far as Transylvania, in Buda it owned two houses in the 15th century. During the Turkish invasion, the monastery was converted into a fortress in 1534/39, but was soon destroyed.
At the end of the 17th century, the Pannonhalma Abbey began to re-establish it. The monastery buildings were completed in 1724, the church between 1750 and 1754. An arboretum was laid out in the 19th century. In 1950 the monastery was closed like others in Hungary.
Since 1998 a monastic life has started again in Bakonyhél. Today four monks and seven oblates live there.
literature
- Izsák Baán: Bakonybél Abbey in Hungary. In: Heritage and Mission. Benedictine journal . Issue 4/14. 2014. pp. 449–452.
- Gáspár Csóka; Gyula Kristó ; Pál angel; Ferenc Makk: Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9-14th század) . Akadémiai Kiadó , 1994, ISBN 963-05-6722-9 , Bakonybél, p. 77 (Hungarian).
Web links
- Szent Mauríciusz Monostor website (Hungarian)
- History of the monastery and the place Bakobybél (Hungarian)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 47 ° 15 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 17 ° 43 ′ 40.1 ″ E