Follina Monastery

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Follina Cistercian Abbey
Facade of the abbey church
Facade of the abbey church
location ItalyItaly Italy
Region Veneto
Province Treviso
Coordinates: 45 ° 57 '14 "  N , 12 ° 7' 4"  E Coordinates: 45 ° 57 '14 "  N , 12 ° 7' 4"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		215
Patronage St. Mary
founding year 1146
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1573
Year of repopulation Camaldolese : 1573 - 1769 ; Servites : 1915- today
Mother monastery Chiaravalle Milanese Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Ospedale del Piave monastery

Follina Monastery (Santa Maria Sanavalle di Follina) is a former Cistercian abbey in Veneto , Italy . It is located in the municipality of Follina on the Soligo tributary of the Piave, 18 km west of Vittorio Veneto on the road to Valdobbiadene in the province of Treviso .

history

Probably a Benedictine or humiliate monastery already existed on the spot . Probably around 1146 the founding convent of the Chiaravalle Milanese monastery under Abbot Stephan took possession of this monastery. Thus Follina belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . 1229 was the monastery Ospedale del Piave the abbey assumed Follina. This rich property was given by a donation from Countess Sofia von Camino. The Cistercians then began building a new abbey church, which was completed in 1335, and the cloister, which was completed in 1268. The Republic of Venice is said to have requested the abolition of Follina Abbey in 1448. However, this was awarded in the coming years. The later Pope Paul II and Karl Borromeo (from 1560 to 1573) were among the abbots of the Commendatas . At the time of the coming, the monastery buildings fell into disrepair and the monastery sank into a priory . In 1573 the Commendatar Abbot Cardinal Tolomeo Gallio summoned Camaldolese to Follina, who stayed until 1769 (or 1771). The monastery was then profaned. In 1915 Servites came to the monastery. In October 1918 the church was damaged by shell fire. In 1921 the church received the title of minor basilica . In the following decade attempts were made to restore the abbey to its original state. The chapter house was renovated in 1928 using preserved parts. The cloister was carefully restored after 1950.

Plant and buildings

The cloister

The church is a three-aisled, curved, round pillar basilica with an open roof; Walled arcades in the south nave wall have been preserved from the previous building. The nave has five wide, ogival arcades, with a kind of transept formed in the side aisles, which does not appear in the central nave. In the east, three almost square and rib vaulted choir chapels adjoin the naves , with the main choir (with a Gothic carved altar) advancing further to the east. The painting of the wall surfaces is atypical for a Cistercian church. Contrary to the building rules of the Cistercians, a multi-storey bell tower is built above the south choir. The façade , which is heavily elevated in the central nave and structured by two pilaster strips, has two rosettes and four lancet windows , two large ones near the main portal and two smaller ones in the area of ​​the side aisles. There is a round arch frieze under the roof. The late Romanesque cloister with its rich column and capital shapes "is considered one of the most beautiful in Italy" (Dellwing).

literature

  • F. Burbello: Abbazia cistercense Santa Maria Sanavalle di Follina . Canova, Dosson di Casier 1997, ISBN 978-88-87061-07-9
  • Giocondo Maria Todescato: Abbazia di Santa Maria di Follina. Edizione Servi di Maria, Follina (TV), 2007

In compendia:

  • Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cistercensi d'Italia. o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, p. 4344
  • Umberto Cordier: Guida ai luoghi misteriosi d'Italia. Piemme Pocket, 2002, p. OA (ital.)
  • Herbert Dellwing : Art monuments in Italy: Venetia, a picture manual. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich and Berlin 1976, pp. 365–366, ISBN 3-422-00347-9 , with illustration and floor plan of the church
  • Erich Egg, Erich Hubala, Peter Tigler, Wladimir Timofiewitsch, Manfred Wundram: Reclam's Art Guide Italy II, 2 . Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart, 2nd edition 1965, pp. 191–193, ISBN 3-15-010007-0

Web links

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