Pilis Monastery

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Cistercian Abbey of Pilis
Aerial view of the remains of the foundation
Aerial view of the remains of the foundation
location HungaryHungary Hungary
Pest county
Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '35 "  N , 18 ° 53' 28"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 41 '35 "  N , 18 ° 53' 28"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		466
founding year 1184
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1526
Mother monastery Acey Monastery
Primary Abbey Clairvaux Monastery

Daughter monasteries

Pásztó Monastery (1191)
Bélapátfalva Monastery (1232)
Ábrahám Monastery (1263)

The Pilis Monastery (Pilisium) is a former Cistercian abbey northwest of Budapest near the village of Pilisszentkereszt, which is located in the forests of Pilis , Pest County in Hungary .

history

The monastery was founded in 1184 by the Hungarian King Bela III. Donated on the site of an older Benedictine monastery , the buildings of which were taken over, and settled by Acey Monastery in Burgundy from the affiliation of Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The existing village was relocated. The monastery, which flourished in the 13th century, had customs revenue in today's Bratislava (Pressburg) and Győr (Raab). It also operated ore smelting. The church was consecrated around 1233. Queen Gertrud, murdered in 1213, was buried in Pilis . The monastery was devastated in the Tatar invasion of 1241/1242. In 1356 an abbot was sent from Heiligenkreuz Abbey . After the Hungarian defeat by the Turks, the monastery was sacked in 1526 and came to an end. The stones were used to expand the Esztergom fortress . The monastery served as a quarry until the 20th century. In 1712 the estate was restored, but not the monastery. At the same time, the village of Pilisszentkereszt was built next to the monastery. After 1814 the legal association with the Zirc monastery took place . The first excavations began in 1913, but the foundation walls of the monastery were only exposed from 1967.

Buildings and plant

The three-aisled church of the medieval complex lay in the north, was easted and almost 57 m long. It had two side chapels on each of the cross arms. The cloister was connected to the south, around which the convent buildings lay. To the north were four courtyards and the gatehouse.

literature

  • László Gerevich: Excavations in the Hungarian Cistercian Abbey of Pilis , in: Analecta Cisterciensia (AC) 1983.

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