Escarp Monastery
| Escarp Cistercian Abbey | |
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 The ruined Escarp Monastery (around 1889) |
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| location |
 Spain Lleida Province |
| Coordinates: | 41 ° 25 ′ 51 ″ N , 0 ° 21 ′ 19 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
563 |
| founding year | 1213 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1835 |
| Mother monastery | Citeaux monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The Escarp Monastery (Santa Maria d'Escarp; Escarpe, Scarpium) is a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality of La Granja de Escarpe around 35 km southwest of Lleida (Lérida) in the Lleida province in Catalonia in Spain . The facility is located around 6 km southwest of Seròs on the orographic right bank of the Segre just above the confluence of the Rio Cinca around 12 km before the mouth of the Segre into the Ebro .
history
The monastery was founded in 1213 on the basis of a donation by a Saracen grangie by Peter II of Aragon to the abbot Arnold Amalrich of Cîteaux as a subsidiary of the Cîteaux monastery and belonged to its filiation . The monastery flourished quickly and was involved in the takeover of Lavaix Monastery by the Cistercian order. At the beginning of the 15th century, Escarp fell into the future . Later it belonged to the Cistercian Congregation of the Crown of Aragon. The monastery had owned the Grangie von Maella as a priory since 1227 (a former Benedictine monastery, which in 1796 became the Trapa monastery of Santa Susana ). Since 1591 it has belonged to the Poblet Monastery , with which it came to an end in the abolition of the monastery under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal , after it had already suffered in the conflicts of 1809 and 1820. After the dissolution, the facility fell into disrepair.
Buildings and plant
The three-aisled church was rebuilt in the late 18th century. Parts of the monastery complex have been preserved.
literature
- Ernesto Zaragoza Pascual: Catàleg dels monestirs catalans, L'Abadia de Montserrat , 1997, pp. 94–95, ISBN 84-7826-887-1 (with list of abbots from the time of the Coming and bibliography).
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 786–787.