Charterhouse Pleterje

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The Pleterje Charterhouse

The Kartause Pleterje (Slovenian: Kartuzija Pleterje ; German: Kartause Pleteriach , also Pletriach , Plettriach or Neustift ) is a monastery of the Carthusians near Šentjernej in Slovenia . The monastery is the only existing charterhouse in Slovenia.

history

The Pleterje Charterhouse around 1680

First foundation

The monastery, in a valley on the northern edge of the Gorjanci Mountains , was founded in 1403 by Count Hermann II of Cilli . The construction of the monastery complex was completed in 1406.

From 1462 to 1467, the mystic and theologian Nikolaus Kempf (1415–1497) was the prior of the monastery. During the Turkish Wars , the monastery was destroyed in 1471. After the subsequent reconstruction, the complex was given the character of a fortress by means of significantly reinforced walls for easier defense.

After a phase of economic and spiritual decline in the Charterhouse, Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria handed the monastery over to the Jesuits of Ljubljana in 1593 . When Pope Clement XIV dissolved the Jesuit order, Pleterje became state property in 1772. In 1839 the monastery went into private hands.

Second foundation

In 1899, the Carthusian monks acquired the site again and began building a new monastery. The construction was completed five years later.

The Charterhouse suffered severe damage during World War II and was set on fire by partisans in 1943 .

Monastery complex and buildings

Gothic monastery church from the 15th century

Today the Charterhouse is one of the 24 remaining branches of the Carthusian Order around the world. The buildings date from the time of the second foundation in the late 19th century, with the exception of the Gothic church, consecrated to the “Throne of the Most Holy Trinity ” in 1420 . The monks' cells , individual houses separated from one another, are arranged around the large cloister.

The monks cultivate around 30 hectares of land, mainly producing fruit, honey and beeswax candles, the Slovenian wine specialty Cviček and fruit brandies, especially pear brandy.

According to their vocation to the lonely life that allow exam regulations of the Carthusians no access to the public. Except for the Museum of Sacred Art in the eastern part of the monastery, the Charterhouse cannot be visited.

Art collection

The monastery community owns an important collection of paintings. Most of the art treasures date from the 17th and 18th centuries, by Flemish, French, Italian and German artists. Most of these pictures reached Pleterje when the brothers of the Carthusian monastery of Bosserville, who were expelled from France in 1904 , were taken. In order to make the art treasures of the old monastery complex accessible to the public while at the same time preserving the monastic tranquility, the paintings are located in the Kostanjevica Monastery Museum , south of the town of Kostanjevica na Krki .

Museums

The eastern part of the building complex, which is open to the public, contains the Charterhouse's “Museum of Sacred Art”, including a collection from the Dolenjska Regional Museum . On the lands of the Charterhouse, but outside the convent, there is the “Pleterje Charterhouse Open-Air Museum” with traditional landscape buildings and examples of typical Slovenian architecture.

literature

  • Johannes Hollenstein: Kartuzija Pleterje . Kartuzija Pleterje Publishing House, Šentjernej 1983
  • Jože Mlinarić: Kartuzija Pleterje 1403-1595 . Kartuzija Pleterje Publishing House, Ljubljana 1982
  • Jože Mlinarič: Pleterje / Pletriach , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 124–128.

Web links

Commons : Kartause Pleterje  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Open-air museum Kartause Pleterje  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Krones :  Cilli . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, pp. 257-266.
  2. ↑ Johannes Madey:  Nikolaus Kempf. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 16, Bautz, Herzberg 1999, ISBN 3-88309-079-4 , Sp. 1153-1154.  ( Article / beginning of article in Internet archive )
  3. ^ Dennis D. Martin: Fifteenth-century Carthusian reform - The world of Nicholas Kempf . Verlag E. J. Brill, Leiden - New York - Cologne 1992
  4. ^ Sönke Lorenz , Oliver Auge, Robert Zagolla: Books, Libraries and Writing Culture of the Carthusians - Festgabe for the 65th birthday of Edward Potkowski . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2002, p. 9
  5. ^ Website of the Carthusian Order , accessed on April 29, 2018

Coordinates: 45 ° 49 ′ 2 ″  N , 15 ° 21 ′ 20 ″  E