Isova Monastery
| Isova Cistercian Monastery (Marienkloster) | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Greece Peloponnese Prefecture of Elis |
| Coordinates: | 37 ° 34 '29 " N , 21 ° 46' 48" E |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | possibly before 1212 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
unknown |
| Mother monastery | possibly Hautecombe Monastery or Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Marian Monastery of Isova (Our Lady of Isova, Notre Dame de Isova) was a certainly Franconian monastery in the Prefecture of Elis on the heights of south of the Alfios river near Trypiti in the Peloponnese in Greece, probably belonging to the Cistercian order .
history
The monastery was possibly founded in 1212 at the request of Gottfried I von Villehardouin in the Principality of Achaia (see Zaraka Monastery ). In any case, Achaia twice asked for a Cistercian convent to be sent, one of which led to the establishment of the Zaraka monastery. Isova could be traced back to the other request. It is mentioned several times in the Chronicle of Morea and was probably destroyed by fire in 1263 at the Battle of Prinitsa.
Plant and buildings
The single-nave, rectangular church is next to the Zaraka monastery and the buildings in Andravida , another example of Franco- Gothic architecture in the Byzantine area. It is an undivided hall and measures 41.30 by 15.20 m. In the east it had a pentagonal apse of 9.60 m length. The west side with three pointed arched windows and the north side of the church with six pointed arched windows are almost undamaged, the south wall is badly damaged and the apse no longer exists. The church was probably crowned by a pointed wooden roof. The entrance is said to have been in the southeast. The two-story monastery buildings were to the north (left) of the church. Figurines have been preserved on the corner of the western front. A few meters south of the monastery church, probably by Latin monks from southern Italy, but probably not by Cistercians, another three-aisled church (Saint Nicholas), almost 11 m long and 10 m wide, was built after 1263.
literature
- Beata Kitsiki Panagopoulos: Cistercian and mendicant monasteries in medieval Greece , Chicago 1979, ISBN 0-226-64544-4 , pp. 42 - 56, with floor plan and illus .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beata Kitsiki Panagopoulos: Cistercian and mendicant monasteries in medieval Greece , Chicago 1979, p. 7 f