La Grande Chartreuse

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La Grande Chartreuse
Main portal of the Grande Chartreuse
The Correrie of the Grande Chartreuse

La Grande Chartreuse , the Great Charterhouse , is the mother monastery of the Carthusian Order . It is located three kilometers northwest of the village of Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse in the French department of Isère .

history

1084 built Bruno of Cologne (around 1030-1101) and six companions in the Chartreuse , a secluded mountain area north of Grenoble , a hermitage, supported by Bishop Hugh of Grenoble (1053-1132). The complex consisted of small wooden houses grouped around a cloister and a stone church. This first Charterhouse is already known as La Grande Chartreuse , the Great Charterhouse .

In 1132 the Great Charterhouse was destroyed by a stone avalanche and rebuilt about two kilometers south of the original location. The Great Charterhouse was destroyed eight times by fire and then rebuilt.

Today's Great Charterhouse mostly dates from the 17th century, but individual elements have been preserved from the 14th and 15th centuries. Further foundations of Kartausen followed, the first already in 1090 by Bruno von Köln in Calabria . This Carthusian monastery, the Santo Stefano del Bosco Monastery , is one of the three existing Carthusian monasteries in Italy .

The monks left the monastery in April 1903

When the monastery was closed by the French state in 1903 and the Carthusians were expelled from France, they were accepted into the Carthusians of Farneta in Italy and Parkminster in England. It wasn't until 1940 that the monks returned.

Today, La Grande Chartreuse is the mother monastery of the 23 worldwide branches of the Carthusian Order.

According to their vocation to the lonely life that allow exam regulations of the Carthusians no access to the public. Apart from the museum located outside the convent in the Correrie, the Charterhouse cannot be visited.

Others

In 2005, Philip Gröning's film Die Große Stille was made in the Great Charterhouse , in which the monastery first gave film cameras an insight into everyday life.

The Chartreuse liqueur produced by the monks of this monastery is exported worldwide. In the past, the income from the sale was used to build new Kartausen, the expenses of monasteries of the order without their own income are also paid and charitable and religious projects outside the Chartreuse are financed.

literature

  • P. Antonius Huperz: The abolition of the monastery of the great Carthusian monastery in 1903. Self-published by the Carthusian monastery , Unterrath near Düsseldorf 1904.

Web links

Commons : La Grande Chartreuse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the Carthusian Order , accessed on April 29, 2018

Coordinates: 45 ° 21 ′ 47.7 "  N , 5 ° 47 ′ 36.9"  E