Belin Studenac Monastery
| Belin Studenac Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
| location | Serbia Vojvodina |
| Coordinates: | 45 ° 15 ′ 0 ″ N , 19 ° 53 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
618 |
| founding year | 1234 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1482 |
| Mother monastery | Trois-Fontaines Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Belin Studenac Monastery (Bélakút, Belafons or Belae fons) was a Cistercian abbey in present-day Serbia . It was in the autonomous province of Vojvodina in the southern district of Petrovaradin in Novi Sad .
history
The monastery was founded in 1234 by the later Hungarian King Béla IV on confiscated possessions of Peter, the murderer of his mother Gertrud von Andechs , and occupied by monks from France. Béla issued the deed of foundation as king in 1237. It was a subsidiary of the Trois-Fontaines Abbey in France, which in turn was the oldest subsidiary of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The monastery received patronage over several churches in the area of Buda and various wine tithes. This made it one of the most profitable monasteries in Hungary at that time. The fortress, built in 1247 to protect against the Tatars, fell after the Turkish siege in 1526. The monastery had come to the Archbishop of Kalocsa between 1482 and 1494 . The year 1688 is given as the date of destruction of the monastery.
Buildings and plant
The monastery was built on the remains of the Roman fortress of Cusum . Remains of the monastery complex in the area of the Petrovaradin fortress have not been preserved.
literature
- Ferenc Levente Hervay: The history of the Cistercians in Hungary , in: Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government (ed.), 800 years of the Cistercians in the Pannonian region, Klostermarienberg 1996, without ISBN, pp. 27–42, in particular pp. 30, 34.