Tiglieto Monastery
| Tiglieto Cistercian Abbey | |
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 Monastery church |
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| location |
 Italy Liguria region metropolitan city of Genoa |
| Coordinates: | 44 ° 31 '20 " N , 8 ° 36' 13" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
14th |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1120 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1648 |
| Year of repopulation | 2000 |
| Mother monastery | La Ferté Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | La Ferté Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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Tiglieto Monastery (Santa Maria alla Croce de Civitacula) is a former Cistercian abbey in the Liguria region , Italy . Tiglieto is the order's 14th medieval monastic abbey and the first outside of what is now France.
location
The monastery is located in the municipality of Tiglieto on the left bank of the Orba stream at 382 m above sea level in the metropolitan city of Genoa , near the border with the Piedmont region .
history
The monastery, founded in 1120 at the instigation of Archbishop Peter von Tarentaise , was a direct subsidiary of the primary abbey of La Ferté . The first abbot was probably the Opizzone. The monastery is believed to have assumed the name Teletum after the so-called land was donated by Margrave Anselm von Ponsone in 1131. Tiglieto founded the Staffarda Monastery and the Casanova Monastery (Piedmont) , both in what is now the Piedmont region . By Pope Eugenius IV. Was in Tiglieto 1442 Coming furnished. In 1648 the monastery was transformed into a family estate of the last abbot, Cardinal Raggio, and it was closed. In 1747 the place was occupied by the Austrians, who were soon driven out by the Genoese . The Cistercians returned to Tiglieto in 2000, but gave up the Tiglieto convent again in 2011.
Plant and buildings
The church is a simple Romanesque brick basilica, originally with square relay choirs, which were demolished in the 14th century in favor of a new east facade. The nave was vaulted in the baroque style and changed with a west choir. A baroque campanile was also added. The enclosure buildings are south of the church; The early Gothic chapter house in the east with a square chapter room with 9 yokes from the early 13th century and symmetrical triforic windows to the cross garden (the cloister is missing) and the dormitory with walled-up windows on the upper floor, the sacristy, the fraternary and the refectory building in the south have been preserved and in the west the converted house for residential purposes. The facility has recently been renovated until 2000.
literature
- Balduino Gustavo Bedini: Breve prospetto delle abazie cisterciensi d'Italia , o. O. (Casamari), 1964, without ISBN, pp. 9-10;
- Heinz Schomann : Reclam's art guide Italy I.2 , Philipp Reclam jun. Stuttgart 1982, p. 411, ISBN 3-15-010305-3 .