La Trinitat de Batet
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La Trinitat de Batet (also: La Santissima Trinitat de Batet ) is a significantly modified over the centuries Romanesque church in the area of the city since 1971 to Olot belonging part of town Batet de la Serra in the Catalan province of Girona in Spain . The church is located at an altitude of 743 meters in the Batet mountain range, about one kilometer southeast of the town of Batet de La Serra.
The exact date of construction is not known. The original church is of the late Romanesque style; an edifice in the 12th or 13th century can be safely assumed. It is the only Trinity Church in the Diocese of Girona. She holds the church title Sanctuarium , Shrine of the Catholic Church.
Architectural structure
The originally single-nave church with a semicircular apse was supplemented twice during the Baroque era in the eastern area with two shorter side aisles or side chapels compared to the main nave. Another entrance for the church was set up in the right aisle. These two conversions cannot be precisely dated at the moment. The latter of these extensions took place at the beginning of the 18th century. After these modifications, the church has a three-aisled floor plan that approximates the shape of a Latin cross. The original masonry can be seen in the form of regular ashlar stones on both sides of the open central nave. The cross vault inside with consoles decorated with children's heads dates from the time of the side aisle extensions. To the east there is a semicircular apse.
The part of the current building that has preserved the Romanesque style as far as possible is shown on the west side with the round arch of the entrance portal made of wedge-shaped stones. There is a small round window, a so-called bull's eye, above the entrance portal. The bell wall with two openings, which was originally located on the western wall, was later expanded into a bell tower covered with a gable roof. On the south wall of the tower there is a sundial and a relief of Lliberada Ferrarons i Vives (1803–1842), a textile worker from Olot who had visions and mystical experiences during a serious illness and was beatified by the Catholic Church.
In the late 1970s, the gallery and the inner stairway access to the bell tower were expanded. Since then, the bell tower has only been accessible via an external metal staircase on the north side of the building. A sacristy was added at the height of the apse on the south side of the building .
history
The church was first mentioned in a document in 1263. Since the beginning of the 14th century, the church was more or less closely connected to the monastery of Sant Pere de Besalú . Today the church belongs to the parish of Santa Maria de Batet. It is currently used to celebrate saints' remembrance days, as a destination for local pilgrimages or at weddings.
Further environment of the church
The old country estate of La Torre de Planella, separated by a wall, is located near the church . A little further south, lower on the mountainside at an altitude of 670 meters, there is a wayside shrine in honor of the Sagrada Familia (Holy Family). Until 1936 there was a sculpture by the Olotensian sculptor Miquel Blay . The wayside shrine was destroyed in the turmoil of the beginning of the Spanish Civil War in 1936 , the small outer structure was restored in November 1951 and the inner part of the wayside shrine was restored in January 1954. The character of Miguel Blay is considered lost.
literature
- La Santíssima Trinitat de Batet. In: Josep Murlà i Giralt; Nicolau Gironès i Casanovas: Guia del romanic de La Garrotxa . Alzamora, Olot 1983, OCLC 434851504 , pp. 222 f .
- La Vall de Bianya. In: Enciclopèdia Catalana, Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya. Volume 3, 1st edition. Barcelona 1981, ISBN 84-85194-17-9 , p. 334. (a brief review of the church “La Trinitat de Batet”)
- Trinitat de Batet, la. In: Enciclopèdia Catalana, Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. 1st edition. Volume 14, Barcelona 1980, ISBN 84-85194-10-1 , p. 710.
- Trinitat de Batet, la. In: Enciclopèdia Catalana: Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. 2nd Edition. Volume 23, Barcelona 1989, ISBN 84-7739-099-1 , p. 95.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ All introductory information after the article in the Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya .
- ↑ Information on this conversion from the late 1970s from: Josep Murla i Giralt; Murla i Giralt speaks of renovation work “from a few years ago”. His book was published in Olot in 1983.
- ↑ The wayside shrine is located south of the church on a parallel path (Camí de Sagrada Familia) that runs deeper on the mountain slope.
Coordinates: 42 ° 10 ′ 25.5 " N , 2 ° 31 ′ 42.7" E