Monastir del Camp

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Monastir del Camp monastery
Portal of the monastery church

The Monastir del Camp is a monastery near the town of Passa in the south of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the Occitanie region in the old cultural landscape of Roussillon .

history

According to local legend, Charlemagne is said to have initiated the construction of the monastery after a victorious battle against the Moors in the 9th century. The monastery was first mentioned in the 11th century; older components have not yet been found. Perhaps it was originally a Cistercian monastery , but it was soon taken over by Augustinian canons (1116) and existed until 1786. Then it was by King Louis XVI. sold to the noble family Jaubert de Passà . The former monastery buildings were recognized as a monument historique in 1875 .

Furnishing

Next to the single-nave abbey church from the 11th century is a remarkable, trapezoidal cloister with Gothic arcades made of white Céret marble, which, according to a preserved inscription, was built in 1307.

The Romanesque portal of the monastery church deserves particular attention, possibly from the workshop of the Master of Cabestany ; In terms of material, structure and style, it is also similar to the portal of the Sainte-Marie church of Brouilla, only about 10 km to the east . The round arch of the portal, which is also made of light marble , is subtly decorated with an ornament band and is supported by four columns with figure capitals . The figures on the second capital on the left can be identified as depictions of the Roman Emperor Constantine with his mother Helena , the patron saint of the nearby town of Elne , and the relic of the Holy Cross that she allegedly discovered . The figures of the other capitals represent animals and mythical creatures . The portal was secured in the 17th century by a wrought-iron gate that is still in place today.

  • Capital on the portal of the monastery church

  • Cloister of the monastery

  • Gothic arcades of the cloister

  • Gothic arcades of the cloister

literature

  • Dirk Althoff: Really traveling. Languedoc-Roussillon , DuMont-Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3770135547

Web links

Commons : Monastir del Camp  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prieuré Saint-Estève de Monastir-del-Camp, Passa in the Base Mérimée of the French Ministry of Culture (French)

Coordinates: 42 ° 35 ′ 11.6 "  N , 2 ° 49 ′ 26.6"  E