Sant Bernat de Rascanya Monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Sant Bernat de Rascanya | |
|---|---|
| location |
 SpainValencia Province of Valencia |
| Coordinates: | 39 ° 29 ′ 58 ″ N , 0 ° 22 ′ 9 ″ W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
711 |
| founding year | 1381 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1544 or 1546, then Jeronimos Monastery |
| Mother monastery | Valldigna monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
The Sant Bernat de Rascanya Monastery was a Cistercian abbey north of the center of the city of Valencia in Spain . Sant Bernat was a humble monastery.
history
The monastery on the site of the Moorish Alqueria (roughly country estate) Rascanya was founded as a priory in 1378 in the vicinity of Valencia, which the Valldigna monastery had acquired in 1371, and elevated to an abbey in 1387. Membership in the Cistercian Order came to an end in 1544 or 1546 when Ferdinand of Aragón , Duke of Calabria, transferred it to the Order of the Hieronymites. For the Hieronymites the monumental monastery of San Miguel de los Reyes ( Catalan : Sant Miquel dels Reis) was built, which is considered one of the major works of the Valencian Renaissance and existed until the disamortization in Spain in 1835 and whose buildings now house the Biblioteca Valenciana.
Buildings and plant
Only small remains of the cloister have survived from the site of the Cistercian monastery, which are located within the later Hieronymite monastery, which has been preserved in its structural fabric.
literature
- Vicente Gascón Pelegrí: S ant Bernat de Rascanya , Valencia: Generalitat Valenciana, l'Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua, 2006, ISBN 9788448243746 .
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 863.