Cerreto Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Cerreto | |
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 former abbey church |
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| location |
 ItalyRegion Lombardy Province Lodi |
| Coordinates: | 45 ° 18 '41 " N , 9 ° 35' 43" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
105 |
| founding year | 1084 by Benedictines |
| Cistercian since | 1135 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1798 |
| Mother monastery | Chiaravalle Milanese Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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Monastery Cerreto (Ceretum) is a former Cistercian - Abbey in Lombardy , Italy and the 105th medieval abbey and the Order. It is located between Lodi and Crema in the Province of Lodi , on the orographic left bank of the Adda River , in the municipality of Abbadia Cerreto .
history
The monastery was founded as a Benedictine monastery by Count Benno von Cassino in 1084 , but because of their partisanship for the antipope Anaklet II, Bishop Guido von Lodi handed it over to the Cistercians in 1135 and three years later made it subordinate to the Chiaravalle Milanese monastery as a daughter monastery by Pope Innocent II . The first abbot was the founding abbot of Chiaravalle Milanese, Bruno. So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The monastery received rich donations from the Milanese patrician Alberto de Oldradis, among others. Cerreto were subordinate to the Cavatigozzi Monastery (Santa Maria Maddalena alla Cava) and the Santo Stefano al Corno Monastery as daughter monasteries . In 1439 Cerreto fell in the coming . It joined the Italian Cistercian Congregation in 1497. Baroque changes were made in the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1798 the abbey was closed and part of the building was demolished. Since then the church, which was restored in 1893 and 1944 to 1950, has been a parish church.
Plant and buildings
The cruciform and brick-built abbey church , which was restored in 1541, has been preserved . It was built in the Bernardine plan with a rectangular choir and three straight side chapels on both east sides of the transept, started around 1150 and completed around 1200 according to a different plan (cross vaults instead of the originally planned belt barrels, which were only made in the choir and in the side chapels) been. The three-aisled nave consists of four double bays with rib vaults in a bound system. The side aisles are divided by arches over massive pillars with half-column templates and cube capitals. As is often the case with Cistercian churches , the services only begin at a height of 2.5 meters. The facade is divided into five sections by pilaster strips. The vestibule, which was largely restored in 1944, dates to around 1250, the octagonal Gothic crossing tower to around 1350. A late baroque bell tower was built over the southern transept chapel. The cloister to the south of the church is down to the vault on the south wall of the church. The monastery buildings that still exist are no older than from the first half of the 16th century, but the core of the Konversen building should still be medieval.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. Casamari, 1964, pp. 23-24.
- Heinz Schomann: Reclam's art guide Italy I, 1. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-15-010305-3 , pp. 11-12.
