Sobrado Monastery

Sobrado Monastery
Sobrado Trappist Monastery
location	Spain Province of La Coruña
Lies in the diocese	Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela
Coordinates:	43 ° 2 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 43 ° 2 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 2 ′ 0 ″  W
Serial number according to Janauschek	164
founding year	10th century by Benedictines
Cistercian since	1142
Year of dissolution / annulment	1835
Year of repopulation	1966 (Trappist)
Mother monastery	Clairvaux Monastery
Primary Abbey	Clairvaux Monastery
Congregation	(Trappists)
Daughter monasteries	Benavides Monastery Valdediós Monastery Monfero Monastery

The Sobrado Monastery ( Santa María de Sobrado ; Latin Monasterium BM de Superato ) is a Cistercian monastery of the strict observance ( Trappist ) in the province of La Coruña in Galicia in Spain . It is located in the municipality of Sobrado de los Monjes (Sobrado dos Monxes) around 9 km east of Corredoiras and around 46 km southeast of Betanzos at 540 m above sea level.

history

Choir of the monastery church and convent building

Facade of the church

The monastery is said to have been founded by the Benedictines in the 10th century . It was abandoned at the beginning of the 12th century. In 1142 it was re-established as a Cistercian monastery from the Clairvaux primary abbey . In the 12th and 13th centuries the monastery flourished and founded a daughter with the Valdediós monastery in Asturias ; Monfero monastery was also subordinated to Sobrado after it was annexed to the Cistercian order. After a period of decline, it became the first abbey in Galicia to join the Castilian Cistercian congregation in 1498 . The monumental new monastery church was consecrated in 1708. The majority of the monastery buildings were also rebuilt around this time. The abolition of the monastery by the Mendizábal government in 1835 brought the end of the monastery, the buildings of which were sold and fell into disrepair. In 1954, the Trappist monks began to rebuild the Viaceli monastery in Cóbreces west of Santander , who had re-established the Huerta monastery in 1929 and sent a convent to Sobrado in 1966.

Buildings and plant

The current monastery church, which is domed several times, was built towards the end of the 17th century, the Capilla de la Magdalena dates from the 14th century. The sacristy was built by Juan de Herrera . The current complex has two cloisters . The kitchen and the chapter house are preserved from the medieval monastery buildings .

Sobrado cloister

literature

• Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 754–755.

Web links

Commons : Mosteiro de Santa María de Sobrado dos Monxes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the monastery ( Memento from February 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Municipio website in Spanish with illustrations
• Certosa di Firenze website with some photos