Valdeiglesias Monastery
| Valdeiglesias Cistercian Abbey | |
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| location |
 Spain Community of Madrid |
| Coordinates: | 40 ° 21 ′ 57 ″ N , 4 ° 19 ′ 0 ″ W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
446 |
| founding year | 1150 by Benedictines |
| Cistercian since | 1177 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1835 |
| Mother monastery | La Santa Espina Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The Valdeiglesias Monastery (Santa María la Real de Valdeiglesias, Vallis ecclesiarum) is a former Cistercian abbey on the edge of the Sierra de Gredos . It is located in the municipality of Pelayos de la Presa in Spain , around 60 km west of Madrid , on the right bank of the Rio Alberche .
history
A monastery is said to have already existed in Visigothic times. In 1150, King Alfonso VII of Castile issued a privilege to the hermits who lived in the area and who soon accepted the Rule of Benedict . Under King Alfonso VIII of Castile , in 1177 it joined the Cistercian order as a subsidiary of the La Santa Espina monastery from the affiliation of the Clairvaux primary abbey . In 1485 he joined the Castilian Cistercian Congregation. In the abolition of the monastery under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal , the monastery was dissolved in 1835 and fell into special ownership, under which it fell into disrepair until it was acquired by Mariano García Benito in 1974 and later transferred to a foundation.
Buildings and plant
The partially preserved cross-shaped monastery church with a single nave in the five-bay nave is to the north of the enclosure , but is slightly inclined across from it. The star vaults of the two west bays have been preserved. The choir is in the southeast. It has a larger, semicircular closed main apse and two also semicircular closed side apses. The extensive ruins of the monastery with Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque elements have been secured since 1974 and partially restored (Renaissance tower).
The ruin was declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico in 1983.
Trivia
Parts of the horror film The Night of the Riding Corpses were filmed in the ruins .
literature
- Mariano García Benito: El monasterio cisterciense de Santa María de Valdeiglesias , Aranjuez, Ediciones Doce Calles, undated , ISBN 84-9744-013-7 .
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 847.