Ferraria Monastery

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Cistercian Abbey of Ferraria
Panoramica ferrara 1.JPG
location ItalyItaly Italy Campania
Region Caserta Province
Coordinates: 41 ° 21 '6.7 "  N , 14 ° 10' 5.1"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 21 '6.7 "  N , 14 ° 10' 5.1"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		454
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1179
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		before 1807
Mother monastery Fossanova Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Monastery of Santa Maria dell'Arco (1212)
Monastery of Santo Spirito della Valle (1215)
Monastery of Santa Maria Incoronata (1232)
Monastery of Santi Vito e Salvo (1257)

The Ferraria Monastery , also Ferrara Abbey (Santa Maria di Ferraria) is a former Cistercian abbey in Campania , Italy . It is located around 2 km north of Pietravairano in Vairano Patenora in the province of Caserta , around 1 km south of the Volturno river .

history

In 1171, Count Richard von Sangro donated some land in the area of ​​Pietravairano in the diocese of Teano to establish a Cistercian monastery. The monk Johannes de Ferrariis from the Fossanova monastery was entrusted with the construction of the monastery . Ferraria belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey Clairvaux . The founding convent from Fossanova with an abbot Peter is said to have moved into the monastery in 1179, as the Cistercian Ferdinando Ughelli claims in the sixth volume of his Italia sacra , the Chronica ignoti monachi Cisterciensis s. Mariae de Ferraria, on the other hand, reports that in November 1184 the convent was re-established under the direction of an abbot Wilhelm. In the following years the monastery received many donations from Popes Lucius III. , Clement III. and Celestine III. , the kings Wilhelm II. , Tankred of Lecce , Henry VI. , Empress Konstanze and Frederick II , who camped at the monastery for three days in September 1229. As a result, the monastery flourished. From him came the blessed Albimano , the first abbot of Arabona Monastery , and his successor Santillo . In its heyday, Ferraria became the mother monastery of the four abbeys Monastery of Santa Maria dell'Arco near Noto in Sicily (1212), Monastery of Santo Spirito della Valle in the diocese of Taranto (1215), Monastery of Santa Maria Incoronata near Foggia (1232) and Monastery of Santi Vito e Salvo in the Diocese of Chieti (shortly after 1255). In 1449 Ferraria Monastery fell into Kommende , whereupon its decline began. In 1632 it joined the Roman Cistercian Congregation, which in 1660 merged with the Tuscan Congregation. In 1765 it broke away from this congregation and joined the Calabrian-Lucan congregation. For the following period, the monastery can no longer be documented so that it cannot be clarified which of the subsequent abolition of the monastery (at the latest that of Joseph Bonaparte in 1807) it fell victim to.

Plant and buildings

The monastery had a large church with many altars, a bell tower and a cloister, and a large cistern. A chapel of the Holy Stairs (della Scala Santa) is still intact and preserves a fresco of the funeral ceremonies for Malgerio Sorello, Lord of Torcino and falconer of Frederick II. Ruins of the rest of the complex have been preserved, especially the apse of the monastery church.

literature

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cisterciensi d'Italia. oO. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, p. 80.
  • Paul Fridolin Kehr : Italia Pontificia VIII: Regnum Normannorum - Campania . Berlin 1935, pp. 261-262.
  • Mario Nassa: De Conventu Nobilis Ferrarie Cenobii. Associazione storica del Medio Volturno, Quaderno n.24, Edizioni ASMV, Piedimonte Matese, 1998

Remarks

  1. ↑ Italia sacra sive de episcopis Italiae et insularum adiacentium, rebusque ab iis praeclare gestis, deducta serie ad nostram usque aetatem , 9 vols. Rome 1644–1662: Volume VI, 698f .; ed. secunda aucta et emendata, cura et studio Nicolai Coleti, 10 vols. Venice 1717–1722: Volume VI, pp. 554f. Verifiable sources for the existence of Abbot Peter are not available.
  2. ↑ Augusto Gaudenzi: Ignoti monachi Cistercensis S. Mariae de Ferraria chronica et Ryccardi de Sancto Germano chronica priora (Società Napoletana di Storia Patria. Monumenti storici, ser. Prima: Cronache), Naples 1888, p. 31
  3. ^ Italia Pontificia VIII, p. 261
  4. ↑ Italia Pontificia VIII, pp. 261-262
  5. ^ Horst Enzensberger : Contributions to the chancellery and documentary system of the Norman rulers of Lower Italy and Sicily , Kallmünz 1971, p. 135f. No. 166; Willelmi II regis Siciliae diplomata D. W.II. † 156
  6. ^ Böhmer-Baaken : RI IV, 3 after D705
  7. ↑ MGH DD H VI p. 267
  8. ↑  RI V n. 1763g

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