Veruela Monastery
| Veruela Cistercian Abbey | |
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| location |
 Spain Zaragoza Province |
| Coordinates: | 41 ° 48 '44 " N , 1 ° 42' 0" W |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
224 |
| founding year | 1146 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1835 |
| Mother monastery | L'Escaladieu monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Herrera Monastery (1171–1835) |
The Veruela Monastery ( Real Monasterio de Santa María de Veruela or Verola ) is a former Cistercian abbey in the municipality of Vera de Moncayo in the province of Saragossa in Aragon in Spain . It is located in a valley on the eastern edge of the Sierra de Moncayo , around 15 km southeast of the city of Tarazona , near the source of the Huecha river .
history
Veruela Monastery was founded by Pedro de Atares in 1146 as a subsidiary of L'Escaladieu Monastery from the filiation of the Morimond Primary Abbey after a land foundation ; the facility was gradually expanded up to the 17th century. The monastery itself founded the daughters of Herrera Monastery and Saya Monastery . During the abolition of the monasteries ( disamortization ) under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal , the monastery was dissolved in 1835. In the following years, the brothers Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer and Valeriano Domínguez Bécquer , among others, did their best to maintain the complex. From 1877 to 1975 the monastery was used by the Jesuits ; in 1976 the rights of use were transferred to the Diputación of Saragossa.
Buildings and plant
The monastery plan with the approx. 86.5 m long, in the nave 27.5 m and a maximum of around 15 m high, three-aisled monastery church in the form of a Latin cross with an ambulatory choir with five choir chapels and a transept with originally two chapels each in the east and six cross-rib vaulted nave bays and the Renaissance cloister (claustro) to the south (right) of the church with the chapter house from 1247 in the east corresponds to the usual Cistercian monastery construction. The baroque sacristy was built between 1725 and 1730.
Todays use
The guest house now serves as the town hall and the refectory as a cultural center. At the beginning of the 21st century, parts of the former monastery building (Monasterio Nuevo) were converted into a Parador .
Church facade
Nave
refectory
Cloister
literature
- Heinz Schomann: Art monuments of the Iberian Peninsula. Volume 1, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1996, DNB 997647930 , pp. 322-325.
- Diputación de Zaragoza (ed.): Monasterio de Veruela. Guía historica, Segunda edición, 1993, ISBN 84-86947-58-8 .
- Bernard Peugniez: Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 779–780.
