Cikádor Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Cikádor | |
|---|---|
 Exposed foundations of the monastery church next to the modern church |
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| location |
 Hungary Tolna county |
| Coordinates: | 46 ° 11 '16 " N , 18 ° 43' 33" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
174 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1142 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1478 |
| Mother monastery | Heiligenkreuz Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Cikádor ( Szék ) Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey in Bátaszék in Tolna County in Hungary .
history
The monastery was founded as the first Hungarian Cistercian monastery in 1142 by King Géza II, probably at the instigation of his mother Helena, as a subsidiary of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in the Vienna Woods . It thus belonged to the filiation of Morimond Monastery . The monastery was burned down in the Mongol storm in 1242, but subsequently recovered.
In the 15th century it was temporarily transferred to the Benedictine order . Then it fell into the coming . Monastic life ceased around 1478 and the monastery was merged with the Benedictine Abbey of Báta, from which the name Bátaszék arose. In 1529 the place was conquered by the Turks, who turned the church into a mosque. The reconquest took place in 1687.
From 1718 the church was used again for worship, in the meantime Serbs and Germans had settled in the village. In 1758 there was a baroque expansion. The church was partially demolished in the 19th century due to its dilapidation. The rest of the monastery complex was demolished in 1903 when the new church was built. Excavations began in 1994 and the nave was uncovered in 1996. The ruin garden was inaugurated in 2001.
Buildings and plant
The church was a three-aisled, four-bay, cross-shaped complex with a transept, a rectangular closed choir and two side chapels on each side of the transept.
Abbots of the monastery
List of abbots according to Hans Jakob Ollig:
- Acerinus
- John
- Ortolfus
- Konrad
- Gottfried
- Heinrich or Hermann (1272–1274)
- Stephan (1290–1301)
- Nicholas (1332)
- Martin Vising († March 19, 1340)
- Thomas (April 1347 to March 4, 1353)
- Berthold (before 1365)
- Andreas Sáska (December 17, 1365 to March 26, 1373)
- Friedrich Déli (counter-abbot to Andreas Sáska)
- Weichard (October 16, 1374 to April 28, 1376)
- Hermann (June 9, 1378 to October 6, 1383)
- Michael (August 1, 1384 to July 13, 1400)
- Thomas Johannes (August 30, 1402)
- Mathias (1406)
- Matthew (September 4, 1416)
- Emmerich (Benedictine) (March 2, 1421 to June 9, 1454)
- Klemens Berzseny Porkoláp (September 6, 1457)
literature
- Meinrad Tomann: Cikádor, the first Cistercian abbey in Hungary , in: Analecta Cisterciensia 1982.
- Ilona Valter: The excavations in the former Cistercian abbey Cikádor , in: Analecta Cisterciensia 1996.