Bezdin Monastery
The monastery Bezdin ( Serbian Манастир Бездин Manastir Bezdin ) is a Serbian Orthodox monastery from the 16th century near the villages German Sankt Peter , Secusigiu and Munar , in Arad County , Romania . It was inaugurated on August 28, 1539 for the Assumption of Mary . The monastery is located 36 kilometers west of the county capital Arad , on the left Maroschufer , in close proximity to the Mureş Floodplain Natural Park , in the historical region Banat .
History of the monastery
On the left bank of the Marosch, opposite Pecica , in the area of the current Bezdin monastery, Ischou monastery , probably a Benedictine abbey , was mentioned in a document in 1233 . The monastery was destroyed during the Mongol storm in 1241. In 1479, King Matthias Corvinus awarded the brothers Stefan and Marcus Jaksits the goods of the Ischou and Hodosch monasteries on the left bank of the Marosch in recognition of their heroism, which they had shown in the Turkish war . The Bezdin Monastery was built in 1539 on the ruins of the Ischou Monastery and expanded in several construction stages.
The most important part of the monastery is the monastery church from the 16th century, which is surrounded on three sides by the monastery building. The baroque style was given to the church through later renovations in 1728. The monastery church of the Serbian Orthodox denomination, consecrated in honor of the Virgin Mary , is said to have been a famous place of pilgrimage as early as the first half of the 16th century .
In 1737 German settlers from the Palatinate and the Black Forest were supposed to be settled on expropriated monastery property, against which the monastery lodged a complaint. As a result, the Empress Maria Theresia reversed the expropriation of the monastery property from 1735 and gave the monastery the terrain for "Eternal Times". In addition, the Banat regional administration ordered the Temesvar administration office to protect the grounds of the monastery from private invasions. The Bezdin monastery itself had Hottersteine erected with Latin and Cyrillic inscriptions to secure the monastery domain, which were still there until the Second World War.
After the First World War , the Social Democrats wanted to divide the land owned by the Bezdiner monastery among the dispossessed population of the community. The plan was averted by the abbot with the support of the Serbian occupation, which held this part of the Banat until the Treaty of Trianon in 1920.
After the Second World War , when the ecclesiastical properties were expropriated as a result of the Agrarian Reform Act, all the dispossessed residents of the communities Deutschsanktpeter, Munar and Secusigiu received land from the monastery property.
The monastery underwent extensive renovations from 1980 to 1987 and is now one of the few remaining Serbian Orthodox monasteries on the territory of Romania.
Web links
- Sfânta Mănăstire Bezdin on proarad.ro (Romanian)
- Mănăstirea Bezdin, bijuteria din Lunca Mureşului on adevarul.ro (Romanian)
- Serbian Orthodox liturgy in the Bezdin monastery church on youtube.com
- Ljubomir Stepanov, Stevan Bugarski: Mănăstirea Bezdin on banaterra.eu (PDF; 166 kB, Romanian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ proarad.ro ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Sfânta Mănăstire Bezdin
- ↑ a b c d Ewald Hensl: The Bezdiner monastery and the disputes with German St. Peter. ( Memento of the original from 23 August 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on deutschsanktpeter.de
Coordinates: 46 ° 8 ′ 23.5 ″ N , 21 ° 1 ′ 37.3 ″ E