Trapa Monastery of Santa Susana

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Trapa Cistercian Monastery of Santa Susana
View from the south
View from the south
location SpainSpain Spain
Zaragoza Province
Coordinates: 41 ° 9 '44 "  N , 0 ° 7' 51"  E Coordinates: 41 ° 9 '44 "  N , 0 ° 7' 51"  E
founding year 6th century by Benedictine nuns
Cistercian since 1227 Grangie (Priory), 1796 Abbey
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1837
Mother monastery Escarp Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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The Trapa Monastery of Santa Susana ( Spanish : Monasterio de Santa María de la Trapa de Santa Susana ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality of Maella , Comarca Bajo Aragón-Caspe in the province of Saragossa in Aragon in Spain . The facility is located around five kilometers north of Maella on the A-1411 road to Mequinenza am Ebro .

history

View from the west

The monastery should in the 6th century as a Benedictine monastery have been built, was in the time of the Moorish occupation and was under after the Reconquista from the Order of Calatrava the monastery Escarp passed, the 1227 there is a grange or Priory instituted. The complex experienced an eventful fate and at times came to the Franciscans at the end of the 16th century , who later moved to Maella, whereupon the Cistercians took over the complex again. In 1796, Cistercians of the Trappist branch exiled from France settled here (hence the name "La Trapa"). Due to the abolition of the monastery ( disamortization ) under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal in 1835, the monks left the monastery in 1837, which has been falling into disrepair ever since.

From La Valsainte to La Oliva. History of the Trappists of Santa Susana

On the instructions of Augustin de Lestrange , two monks from the Charterhouse La Valsainte traveled to Spain in April 1793 to found a monastery. To handle the purchase and approval process, they made a stopover at the Monestir de Santa Maria de Poblet , where they were reinforced by ten more monks in early 1794. In January 1796 the monastery of Santa Susana was founded , which was elevated to an abbey in 1798 (first abbot: Gerasimo d'Alcantara, 1760–1804; successor: Ildefons Diez y Cano, † 1914, then: Simeón Carracedo). From 1810 to 1813 the monks had to flee from Napoleon Bonaparte to the island of Mallorca . From 1820 to 1829 they were expelled again and lived in the Saint-Aubin monastery (today: Saint-Aubin-de-Médoc ) near Bordeaux . After a further six years in Santa Susana , they had to give up the monastery for good in 1835 and fled partly to Saint-Aubin , partly to the Melleray monastery and partly to other French monasteries, but remained legally as a community and settled in 1869 that of Bishop Louis Marie Épivent (1805 –1876) made available to Divielle Monastery near Dax (Landes) . From there, the Spaniards among them were expelled to Spain by the anti-clerical Third Republic in 1880 and lived in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña from November 1880 to November 1881 , and then (for financial reasons) to the pilgrimage site of Santa Maria del Hort (also: Santuario de la Virgen de Lord or Catalan: Santuari de la Mare de Déu de Lord ) in San Lorenzo de Morunys, Diocese of Solsona , in Catalonia , where living conditions were so difficult that the place was given up again in 1884 in favor of the former Premonstratensian monastery Monasterio de Bellpuig , diocese of Urgell , which had been a farm since 1835. Here the community struggled with new difficulties for five years and then, in the meantime grown to 49 members, moved to the La Aldehuela estate on Manzanares (east of Getafe in the south of Madrid ) in 1889 , which the monks renamed the Monastery of Val San José (“Sankt Josefstal "). Here the community grew to 91 people at times, but it suffered from the increasing flood of sewage from the city of Madrid and therefore bought the abandoned monastery of La Oliva (Navarra) in 1927 (at the end of the long wandering ) , which still exists today.

Buildings and plant

Gothic aisle

The west-facing complex, which is still Gothic in parts, has been preserved in ruins. The church ruins are dominated by a baroque tower. The monastery had six dormitories .

literature

  • Joan Fuguet Sans, Carme Plaza Arqué: El Cister. El patrimoni dels monestirs catalans a La Corona d'Aragó (= Col·lecció Nissaga. 14). Rafael Dalmau, Barcelona 1998, ISBN 84-232-0597-5 , p. 90.
  • Eduardo Lacasa Godina: Santa María de la Trapa de Santa Susana de Maella. In: Cuadernos de Estudios Caspolinos. Vol. 7, 1982, ISSN  0211-7649 , pp. 99-124.
  • Augustin-Hervé Laffay: Dom Augustin de Lestrange et l'avenir du monachisme. (1754-1827) (= Histoire religieuse de la France. 12). Paris, Cerf 1998, ISBN 2-204-05645-6 , pp. 160–166, 270–272, 424–425, 478–480, (also: Thèse Doctorat, Histoire, Lyon 3).
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 778, 847.

Web links

Commons : Trapa Monastery of Santa Susana  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website in Turismodezaragoza (Spanish)