Staffarda Monastery
| Staffarda Cistercian Abbey | |
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 Staffarda Cistercian Abbey |
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| location |
 Italyregion Piedmont province of Cuneo |
| Coordinates: | 44 ° 43 '15 " N , 7 ° 26' 13" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
87 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1135 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1750 |
| Mother monastery | Tiglieto Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | La Ferté Monastery |
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The Staffarda Monastery (Santa Maria di Staffarda) is a former Cistercian abbey in Piedmont , Italy . It is located in the municipality of Revello in the province of Cuneo , on the orographic left bank of the River Po , around 8 km southeast of Cavour near the road to Saluzzo .
history
The monastery grounds were donated in 1135 by Margrave Manfred I of Saluzzo and settled by monks who came from Tiglieto Monastery . It is possible that a monastery already existed on the spot at that time. Thus the monastery belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey of La Ferté . In the 12th and 13th centuries, the monastery was granted various privileges. It founded the short-lived monastery of Santa Maria di Sala in Lazio . The Rivalta di Torino monastery was also subordinated to Staffarda a few decades after it was taken over by the Cistercian order. Staffarda Abbey, which had fallen into Kommende in 1463 , entered the Italian Cistercian Congregation in 1497. The buildings were damaged in the Battle of Staffarda in 1690, but were rebuilt afterwards. In 1750 the abbey was abolished by Pope Benedict XIV and given to the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus founded by the Dukes of Savoy . In 1804 the church became a parish church. Restoration work took place from 1826 to 1840 and 1920 to 1926.
Plant and buildings
The three-aisled, polychrome church with a vestibule has three nave bays and a choir bay, a false transept that is no wider than the nave aisles , and three semicircular apses in the east . Of the enclosure to the south (right) of the church, the east wing with the nine-bay chapter house and the large monks' work room in the south-east corner are of particular interest. The west side of the exam is renewed. The north and west wings of the large cloister have been preserved. The cloister building was increased in 1751 by Giovanni Tommaso Prunotti. The Konversentrakt in the west was separated from the cloister by a monastery lane (cf. Eberbach Monastery ). The hostel in the south (Foresteria, around 1230), the late Gothic abbey building and the open market hall built before 1300 are still preserved.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle Abazie Cistercensi d'Italia. Without place (Casamari), 1964, pp. 17–19, without ISBN.
- Carlo Peano: I Segreti Solari di una Abbazia Cistercense - Santa Maria di Staffarda. 3rd edition 1999, Gribaudo, Cavallermaggiore, without ISBN.
- Heinz Schomann : Reclam's art guide Italy I, 2. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1982, pp. 339 ff., ISBN 3-15-010305-3 .
- Heinz Schomann: The former Cistercian Abbey of Staffarda in Piedmont. A contribution to the brick architecture of the 12th – 13th centuries Century in Northern Italy. Without location 1969 (dissertation, University of Frankfurt).
