Skalice monastery
| Cistercian Abbey of Skalice | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Czech Republic Bohemia Region Central Bohemia |
| Coordinates: | 50 ° 1 '22 " N , 14 ° 58' 56" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
709 |
| founding year | 1357 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1783 |
| Mother monastery | Sedlec Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Skalice Monastery ( Skalitz; Scalicium ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Klášterní Skalice in Okres Kolín in the Czech Republic , around four kilometers northeast of Kouřim , in the Kouřimka Valley.
history
The monastery was founded in 1357 by the Chancellor of Bohemia, Bishop Dietrich von Minden , who later became Archbishop of Magdeburg , who himself belonged to the Cistercian order, as the last medieval Cistercian abbey in the Bohemian countries at a time when the establishment of new Cistercian monasteries had become rare. and settled by Sedlec Monastery . The monastery received from its donor real estate, which was not particularly extensive, as well as two thousand shock Prague groschen . The foundation was confirmed by the Prague Archbishop Ernst von Pardubitz . The foundation stone of the monastery was laid by the Bishop of Olomouc, Johann Očko von Wlašim, in the presence of Emperor Charles IV , who in the same year confirmed the monastery’s immunity from court. Pope Innocent VI also confirmed this in 1357 . the foundation of the monastery. In 1400 King Wenceslas took the monastery under his protection. The monastery was probably destroyed in the Hussite Wars in 1421. The ownership of the abbey is likely to have passed on to secular feudal lords. However, the convent initially continued, but died in the middle of the 16th century. The goods of the abbey went to the mother monastery Sedletz , which itself was dissolved in 1783 and with which there had been a personal union since 1553.
Buildings and plant
From the monastery church a more than ten meter high pillar with four solid pear rod profiles and other slender profiles has been preserved, which may originally have formed the southeast corner of the crossing. To the south are fragmentary remains of the monastery buildings, which belong to the later farmyard and formerly formed the east wing of the enclosure , which was around 63 m long. The north wall of the baroque chapel south of the pillar is also essentially Gothic; it probably formed part of the south wall of the south transept arm. The wall moving north from there could have been a remnant of the west wall of the south arm of the transept. D. Libal then tried to reconstruct the original shape of the monastery church. Kuthan assumes a close connection with the architecture of the Prague imperial court. Two keystones are kept in the Lapidarium of the Prague National Museum and in the Kouřim City Museum; one bears the relief of a winged bull, the other that of an angel.
literature
- Jiří Kuthan: The medieval architecture of the Cistercians in Bohemia and Moravia. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 1982, ISBN 3-422-00738-5 , pp. 63–70.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Esprit des lieux, patrimoine, hotel business. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, ISBN 978-2-7468-2624-3 , p. 1081.
- Ambrosius Schneider : Lexical overview of the male monasteries of the Cistercians in the German language and cultural area. In: Ambrosius Schneider, Adam Wienand, Wolfgang Bickel, Ernst Coester (eds.): The Cistercienser. History, spirit, art. 3rd, expanded edition. Wienand, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 , pp. 639-702, here p. 691.