Wąchock Monastery
| Wąchock Cistercian Abbey | |
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 Wachock Abbey |
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| location |
Wąchock Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship |
| Lies in the diocese | Radome |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 5 ′ 0 ″ N , 21 ° 1 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
455 |
| Patronage | St. Maria St. Florian |
| founding year | 1179 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1819 |
| Year of repopulation | 1951 |
| Mother monastery | Morimond Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
| Congregation | Polish Congregation |
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Monastery Wąchock (lat. Abbatia BMV in Wachock ) is our Lady and St. Florian dedicated Cistercian - Abbey in Wąchock in the Świętokrzyskie between Kielce and Radom , 5 km northwest of Starachowice .
history
The monastery was founded in 1179 by Bishop Gedeon (Gedka) of Kraków (Cracow) as the twenty-fifth subsidiary of the Morimond Primary Abbey , from which the convent also came . Wąchock founded the Spišský Štiavnik Monastery , now in Slovakia , and in 1675 the Vistychy Monastery in what is now Belarus . After looting by Turkish, Hungarian and Cossack troops and fires in 1637 and 1656, the reconstruction took place. The monastery was closed in 1819. Since 1887 the complex has been owned by the parish. The Cistercians returned to Wąchock in 1951, and in 1964 the monastery was restored to the rank of abbey.
Buildings and plant
The convent was built around 1218 to 1239. It is an extensive complex of late Romanesque built-in houses, which was probably built by an Italian workshop under the direction of the master Simon (see Sulejów Monastery ). The cloister is to the right of the church. The square chapter house has a 9-field cross-ribbed vault and is called the most beautiful of the Malopolska complexes. In the east wall it has a rose window with new tracery, a portal and biforic openings towards the cloister. The lay brother hall has a vault on a pillar. The refectory has three bays and the consoles and keystones are decorated with plants. The cloister dates from the beginning of the 16th century and was vaulted in the 17th century. In the west wing, which was heavily modified in the 17th century, the Rakoczy tower was added in the middle in 1643.
The church is a three-nave pillar basilica with a three-bay nave, transept and one-bay choir. The nave arcades are rounded, the arcades into the transept are slightly pointed. The church has a ribbed vault on pointed arches, which rest on pillars, in the central nave on beveled half-columns with leaf capitals. A gallery was built into the south transept in the 17th century. The outer facades are structured with pilaster strips, in the east facade there is a rose above three windows. In the north chapel there is a round arch frieze with animal heads. In the western front there is a robe portal with half columns. The furnishings come from Baroque and Rococo.
literature
- Loziński, Jerzy: Art Monuments in Poland, Krakow and Southeast Poland . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich and Berlin 1984, p. 479 (with map), ISBN 3-422-00385-1
- Faryna-Paszkiewicz, Hanna; Omilanowska, Małgorzata; Pasieczny, Robert: Atlas zabytków architektury w Polsce . Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN Warszawa 2001, p. 480, ISBN 83-01-13478-X
- Anselme Dimier : L'art cistercien hors de France . Zodiaque, La-Pierre-qui-vire 1971, p. 47, with a plan of the church (without ISBN)
Web links
- Certosa di Firenze website
- Homepage of the abbey (Polish, short version also German, English, Italian)