San Bartolomeo di Buonsollazzo monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of San Bartolomeo di Buonsollazzo | |
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 The monastery of San Bartolomeo di Buonsollazzo |
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| location | Italy region Tuscany metropolitan city of Florence |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 55 '3 " N , 11 ° 18' 50" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
701 |
| Patronage | St. Bartholomew |
| founding year | 1320 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1782 |
| Mother monastery | San Salvatore a Settimo Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
Monastery of San Bartolomeo di Buonsollazzo (Sanctus Bartholomoeus de Bono-Solatio) was first a Benedictine - then a Cistercian - and finally a Camaldolese monastery in Tuscany , Italy . The building is located around 15 km north of Florence in the metropolitan city of the same name in the municipality of Borgo San Lorenzo on the slopes of Monte Senario in southern Mugello .
history
The monastery was founded in 1084 as a Benedictine settlement by Gisla, sister of the lords of the castles of Cavertezola and Montecaroso (others assume it was donated by Hugo of Tuszien ). The abbey initially depended on the monastery of San Gaudenzio (on the road from Florence to Forlì ). At last it only had five monks and was therefore transferred to the Cistercian Order in 1320 and subordinated to the monastery of San Salvatore a Settimo near Florence as a subsidiary monastery. So it belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . San Salvatore sent a convent under Abbot Bernardo Lamberteschi in 1321, the five Benedictine monks remained. The monastery then blossomed. In 1477 it fell in the coming period . The downsized Convention nonetheless maintained discipline. In 1497 the monastery joined the Italian Cistercian Congregation. In 1705, the reform of the Abbé de Rancé from La Trappe Monastery was adopted in a milder form and passed on from Buonsollazzo to Casamari Monastery twelve years later . In 1782 the monastery, like all Cistercian monasteries in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, was closed by Grand Duke Leopold I and sold to Sigismondo della Stufa. In 1877 it was taken over by the Camaldolese . The monastery, which had been vacant for years, was sold in 2004 to an industrialist from Padua who is said to have the intention of dividing the monastery into apartments and selling it.
Plant and buildings
The old monastery complex was demolished after 1705 and from 1707 to 1720 a new monastery was built in the baroque style. The church was built according to a plan by Giovanni Battista Foggini . It shows a large Medici coat of arms on the facade . The enclosure is clearly set back to the right of the single-nave church, but there is also a monastery building to the left of it.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. Dalla fondazione di Citeaux (1098) alla metà del secolo decimoquarto. sn, sl 1964, SS 176-177.
- Emanuele Repetti: ABAZIA DI BUONSOLAZZO già detta DI S. BARTOLOMMEO IN FORCOLESE. In: Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846). Online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
Web links
- Certosa di Firenze website about the monastery, with numerous photos
- Article about the latest developments (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Morena Costantini: Foggini, Giovanni Battista . In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , Vol. 48 (1997)