Santa Maria di Sala monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Santa Maria di Sala | |
|---|---|
| location |
 ItalyRegion of Lazio Province of Viterbo |
| Coordinates: | 42 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ N , 11 ° 45 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
490 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1189 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1217 |
| Mother monastery | Staffarda Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | La Ferté Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Santa Maria di Sala Monastery is a former Cistercian monk abbey in Lazio , Italy . It was near the municipality of Farnese near the Olpeta river in the province of Viterbo .
history
On the site of the later monastery there was already a religious community in the 10th century. The Bishop of Castro offered the abbot of Staffarda Monastery in Piedmont the settlement, who sent monks to Sala in 1189. Thus the monastery belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey of La Ferté . It soon turned out that the place was not suitable for an abbey. In 1199 the General Chapter of the Order complained about the few monks in Sala. It commissioned La Ferté in 1205 to check whether 12 monks could live according to the rules of the order in Sala. The departure from the monastery may have taken place around 1217. The goods of the monastery initially fell to Staffarda, but were sold to the monastery of San Martino al Cimino in 1257 .
Plant and buildings
The walls of the nave of the Romanesque single-nave church of approx. 15 m in length have been preserved from the monastery complex.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cistercensi d'Italia . Casamari 1964, without ISBN, pp. 82–83.
Web links
Website of the Certosa di Firenze on Sala Monastery with photos (Italian)