Chiaravalle d'Ancona Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Chiaravalle d'Ancona | |
|---|---|
 Chiaravalle Abbey in Castagnola |
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| location |
 ItalyRegion Marche Province of Ancona |
| Lies in the diocese | Senigallia |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 36 '0 " N , 13 ° 19' 36" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
226 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1147 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1796 |
| Year of repopulation | 20th century |
| Year of re-dissolution | 21st century |
| Mother monastery | Lucedio Monastery (controversial) |
| Primary Abbey | La Ferté Monastery |
| Congregation | Congregation of St. Bernard in Italy |
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Daughter monasteries |
Monastery of San Benedetto di Monte Favale (1255) |
The Chiaravalle d'Ancona monastery (also: S. Maria di Castagnola ; lat.BMV Claraevallis in Piceno ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Marche , Italy , around 16 km west of Ancona in the province of the same name , in the municipality of Chiaravalle .
history
Whether the monastery, like Chiaravalle Milanese and Chiaravalle della Colomba, goes back to the Clairvaux primary abbey or is a subsidiary of the Lucedio monastery from the filiation of the La Ferté primary abbey is disputed. In 1147 a founding convent moved into a small Romanesque church on the lower reaches of the Esino River , around 3 km from its mouth in the Adriatic Sea . The monks first drained the estuary of the Esino and cultivated it. The abbey church was built probably in the 12th century, following in some elements that of the Casamari monastery . In 1256 the monastery became the mother monastery of San Benedetto di Monte Favale and in 1257 of San Severo in Ravenna . In 1408 the monastery fell in the coming period . The monks withdrew to Clairvaux at the beginning of the 16th century, after the mother monastery Lucedio had also fallen into Kommende in 1457. They did not return until 1564. In the meantime, some Franciscans had looked after the monastery. A tobacco factory was set up in the Coming Datar. The coming came to an end in 1771. In the period that followed, the church in the right transept was equipped with a large polychrome marble chapel dedicated to St. Bernard. The abbey now became the seat of the President of the Roman Province of the Italian Cistercian Congregation. In 1796, most of the monastery property was confiscated and the monastery was closed, but some monks remained who continue to provide pastoral care on site. Today the Cistercian monastery exists again as an abbey.
Plant and buildings
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The broad, three-aisled church essentially follows the Bernardine plan. It has a three-aisled nave with five bays in richly structured brick architecture and a narrower yoke that closes the transept with twelve cross-shaped pillars, a transept with three square side apses in the east and a rectangular main choir. The old Romanesque church was incorporated into the transept. The facade with its rose window with spokes joined around a quatrefoil is only medieval in the middle, the portico was renewed in 1688 and the triangular gable is also described as not original. The roof turret was also renewed in 1688. The mediaeval monastery and the cloister have been replaced by new renaissance structures.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Le abazie cisterciensi d'Italia , o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 47-49
- Georg Kauffmann: Reclam's Art Guide Italy IV , 2nd edition, Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1971, pp. 180–181, ISBN 3-15-010206-5 , with a floor plan of the church