Râşca Monastery
The Râşca Monastery (Mănăstirea Râşca) is a Romanian Orthodox monastery in the Râşca municipality in Suceava County in western Moldova in Romania .
history
The existing male monastery was built near a monastery built by Petru Rareș in 1542 after repeated destruction of the original structure, which dates back to 1359, at the instigation of Bishop Macarie from Roman , but was devastated again in 1574 and lay in ruins for 40 years. The St. Nicholas was consecrated by Costea Băcioc, the father-in-law of Vasile Lupu , the voivode of the Moldavia , enlarged in the years 1611 to 1617 by adding a porch. Lupus brother Lupu Coci had the reinforced wall around the complex built. In 1821 the monastery was looted again, but renovated from 1823 to 1827. The partition between the naos and pronaos was also broken off. Both inside and outside were painted over.
In the 19th century the monastery served as a place of exile, u. a. for the later Romanian Prime Minister Mihail Kogălniceanu .
At the time of communist rule, only two monks were allowed to stay in the monastery.
The system is listed under the number SV-II-aA-05630.
Buildings and plant
The monastery complex was restored in the 1960s and 1970s under the direction of the architect Ștefan Balş and again from 2004 to 2008. The original painting by Stamatello Kotronas was exposed again. However, the painting from 1827 has been preserved in the vestibule.
The votive image of Petru Rares on the north wall in front of the main entrance is a copy from 1827. The outer wall shows Johannes Klimakos ' ladder to heaven , which is also shown on the outer wall of Sucevița Monastery . To the west is a depiction of the Last Judgment in the traditional iconographic scheme of the Vltava.
literature
- Tereza Sinigalia, Oliviu Boldura: Medieval Monuments from Bukowina , 2nd ed. 2015, Editura ACS, Bucharest, pp. 214–218, ISBN 97860693583 6-8
- Arhiepiscopia Sucevei și Rădăutilor (ed.): Mănăstirea Râșca , ASA, Bucharest 2009 (texts in Romanian, English, French, German and Russian), without ISBN
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 21 ′ 13.3 " N , 26 ° 12 ′ 36.7" E