Piedra Monastery
| Piedra Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Church ruin |
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| location |
 Spain Zaragoza Province |
| Coordinates: | 41 ° 11 '36 " N , 1 ° 46' 57" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
509 |
| founding year | 1194 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1835 |
| Mother monastery | Poblet Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Piedra Monastery (Nuestra Señora de Piedra; Petra) is a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality of Nuévalos , Province of Saragossa , in Aragon in Spain , around 28 km southwest of Calatayud . The monastery is located on the right bank of the Rio Piedra , which forms several waterfalls here.
history
The monastery goes back to a foundation of King Alfonso II of Aragon in 1164. The construction of the monastery as a subsidiary of the Poblet Monastery from the affiliation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey in the old Arab castle of Piedra Vieja did not take place until 1194. The monastery, which was already in the turmoil of the years 1820 to 1823, existed until the monastery was dissolved ( disamortization ) under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal in 1835. In the following years it was pillaged and looted, until it was largely rebuilt after it was sold to private owners in 1840. The main building is now a hotel . A landscape and bird park is located around the monastery.
Buildings and plant
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The walled complex is entered through a tower (Torre del homenaje). The complex follows the Bernardine plan with the church in the north and the enclosure to the south. The ruinous three-aisled church in the form of a Latin cross with a five-bay nave and two narrow side aisles has two two-bay transepts with two rectangular chapels each; a baroque chapel adjoins the north transept. The main choir has a 5/8 ending . The vaults of the east parts, the south transept and the south aisle have been preserved. The walling of the monk area is also still standing. Incidentally, the church was destroyed in the first half of the 19th century, but the west facade with a rose window is upright. The medieval, almost square groin-vaulted cloister with biforic windows of the chapter house, the nine-bay square chapter house from the 13th century, the single-nave refectory and the kitchen have been preserved. The facility has a partial cellar. The Konversentrakt in the west (today the Wine Museum) is separated from the enclosure by an arched corridor. The monastery was declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico ( Bien de Interés Cultural ) in 1983 .
literature
- Joan Fuguet Sans, Carme Plaza Arqué: El Cister: El patrimoni dels monestirs catalans a la Corona d'Aragó. Rafael Delmau, Barcelona 1998, ISBN 84-232-0597-5 , pp. 53-57, with floor plan
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 775–777.
