San Salvatore a Settimo Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of San Salvatore a Settimo | |
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 The church of the monastery |
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| location | Italy region Tuscany metropolitan city of Florence |
| Coordinates: | 43 ° 46 '51 " N , 11 ° 8' 45" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
624 |
| founding year | 1236 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1783 |
| Mother monastery | San Galgano Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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The Monastery of San Salvatore a Settimo (also called Badia a Settimo or Abazia a Settimo ) was a Cistercian monk abbey in Tuscany , Italy . It lay near the Arno River seven miles (hence the name a Settimo) towards Pisa in Scandicci in the metropolitan city of Florence . The building that still exists today is located in the Badia a Settimo district of Scandicci.
history
The monastery was originally a Benedictine foundation , which is mentioned for the first time in 998 and has been compared in importance with Montecassino and Nonantola . The monastery was fortified and resembled a castle. At first it was reformed by the Vallombrosans , who came to the monastery in 1048, but left it again around 1090. Pope Gregory IX entrusted it to the Cistercians of the San Galgano monastery for reform in 1236 , who sent a convent of 18 monks that same year. Thus the monastery belonged to the filiation of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey . The monastery then flourished artistically and in Gregorian chant. The monastery became the mother monastery of San Bartolomeo di Buonsollazzo . The monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena fuori Porta Pinti in Florence was also occupied by San Salvatore a Settimo, but only raised to an abbey in the late Middle Ages. In 1436 the monastery fell into Kommende , which led to a decrease in the number of monks. In 1497 it joined the Italian Cistercian Congregation. The Cistercians stayed until 1783, when Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany abolished the monastery with the other Cistercian monasteries in his domain. Two thirds of the monastery were sold to private individuals, and the south-western part was turned into a commercial enterprise. The church became a parish church. The Second World War and the Arno flood in 1966 caused devastation. The privately used part was largely converted for commercial use in 1995 until the public authorities intervened. Now a group of friends "Amici della Badia di Settimo" was formed. The church part was restored until 2005. Today the facility serves as a cultural center.
Plant and buildings
The three-aisled church, restored in 1998, with semicircular apses on the side aisles and a rectangular apse in the main nave is now the parish church. It has a large Gothic rose window and a Renaissance apse and a crypt from around 1,000. The bell tower, destroyed in 1944, was rebuilt. The main cloister, the chapter house and the large Konversensaal are not yet accessible again.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. Dalla fondazione di Citeaux (1098) alla metà del secolo decimoquarto. sn, sl 1964, pp. 138-139.
- Emanuele Repetti: ABAZIA A SETTIMO (S. Salvatore e S. Lorenzo). In Dizionario Geografico Fisico Storico della Toscana (1833–1846), online edition of the University of Siena (pdf, ital.)
- Goffredo Viti (Ed.): Storia e arte della Abbazia Cistercense di San Salvatore a Settimo a Scandicci. Certosa, Florence 1995.
Web links
- Website of the circle of friends with photos
- Detailed information on the history and structure of the Fondo Ambiente (FAI, Italian) (PDF file; 82 kB)
- Certosa di Firenze website with numerous photos
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emanuele Repetti: abazia a Settimo (S. Salvatore e S. Lorenzo).