Santa María la Real Monastery (Fitero)
| Fitero Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Church of the monastery |
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| location |
 Spain Navarre |
| Coordinates: | 42 ° 3 '22 " N , 1 ° 51' 26" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
159 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1140 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1835 |
| Mother monastery | L'Escaladieu monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Santa María la Real Monastery is a former Cistercian abbey in the small town of Fitero in the autonomous region of Navarre in Spain .
location
The monastery is located on the Río Alhama in today's center of the small town of Fitero in the Ribera countryside in the extreme southwest of Navarra, around 21 km west of the city of Tudela near the borders with La Rioja and Aragon at an altitude of approx. 420 m .
history
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The Fitero monastery was probably the first Cistercian monastery in present-day Spain (the foundation of Moreruela monastery is already in doubt in 1131) was founded in 1140 in Niencebas as the first daughter monastery of L'Escaladieu monastery from the affiliation of the Morimond primary abbey . The move to Fitero took place at the latest in 1152. The construction of the church in Fitero began in 1175, with that of the other buildings in 1185. The later canonized abbot of Fitero, Raimundo Serrat , founded the Order of Calatrava in 1158 . The affiliation ( Castile or Navarre) was controversial in the Middle Ages until an apostolic legate awarded the monastery to Navarre in 1373. In the 18th century the monastery joined the Congregation of Aragón with the other religious settlements in Navarre. The monastery was closed on December 21, 1835 by the Mendizábal government in the course of the abolition of monastery ownership ( disamortization ) .
Buildings and plant
Get are large, about 86.5 m long and in the nave 27.5 m wide three-nave monastery church in the form of a Latin cross with ambulatory with five chapels and transept with originally two chapels in the east and six longhouse subjugate the south (right ) of the church located Renaissance - cloister with the chapter hall from the year 1247 in the east and other outbuildings. The baroque sacristy was built between 1725 and 1730. The guest house now serves as the town hall, the refectory as a cultural center ( Teatro-Cine Calatrava ).
literature
- Goñi Gaztambide: Historia del Monasterio Cisterciense de Fitero. Revista Príncipe de Viana, año 26, no. 100 and 101, pp. 295–329, Pamplona, 1965.
- Jimeno Jurio: Fitero . Colección Navarra-Temas de Cultura Popular, no.7, Pamplona, 1970.
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 799–800.
