Matallana Monastery

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Matallana Monastery
Remains of the monastery church
Remains of the monastery church
location SpainSpain Spain
Coordinates: 41 ° 54 '4 "  N , 4 ° 51' 55"  W Coordinates: 41 ° 54 '4 "  N , 4 ° 51' 55"  W.
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		435
founding year 11th century
Cistercian since 1173
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		around 1835
Mother monastery La Crete Monastery
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery

The Matallana Monastery ( Monasterio de Santa María de Matallana ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the province of Valladolid in the Autonomous Community of Castile and León in Spain .

location

The ruins of the monastery are in the north of the municipality of Villalba de los Alcores , around 20 km east of the small town of Medina de Rioseco , at an altitude of around 785 m above sea level. d. M.

history

The monastery, which may have been founded in the 11th century, was donated by Don Tello Pérez Meneses and his wife Gotroda in 1173 and occupied by the monastery of La Crête , the second daughter of the primary abbey of Morimond . The construction of the new church, built in the 13th century, was initiated by Queen Beatrix of Spain (1205–1235), the wife of King Ferdinand III. , promoted. The monastery came to an end during the dissolution of the monastery by the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal around 1835 and was then abandoned (see also Disamortization in Spain ).

Buildings and plant

Remains of the three-aisled church with transept and the cloister ( claustro ) on the south side have been preserved up to a height of approx. 2 m. The donors' graves were located in the monastery church (today in the Archaeological Museum of Catalonia ).

Todays use

Today the complex and a neighboring finca house a natural history information center for the province of Valladolid. A pigeon house ( palomar ) and a newly established cheese dairy can also be seen.

literature

  • María Damián Yáñez Neira: El monasterio de Santa María de Matallana y sus abades (1174-1974), Archivos Leoneses: revista de estudios y documentación de los Reinos Hispano-Occidentales, ISSN  0004-0630 , no. 57-58, 1, 1975 , Pp. 311-406
  • Various authors: El monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Matallana , Valladolid 2006
  • Vicente Herbosa: El Románico en Valladolid, León , Ediciones Lancia, 2003, ISBN 84-8177-079-5 , p. 10 m. Illustration.
  • Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 830.

Web links

Commons : Matallana Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matallana Monastery - Map with altitude information
  2. ↑ Becking, Die Filiationen der Zisterzienserabtei Morimond, in Pfister (ed.), Monastery guide of all Cistercian monasteries in German-speaking countries, Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2nd edition 1998, p. 36, ISBN 2-87718596-6
  3. ↑ Matallana Monastery, Centro de Interpretación de la Naturaleza de Matallana - photos + information