San Adrián de Sásave

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San Adrián de Sásave
San Adrián de Sásave
Cantilever with head

The church of San Adrián de Sásave (also Sásabe) is located at the end of a blind road in the Pyrenees and belongs to the municipality of Borau in the province of Huesca in the Spanish autonomous region of Aragon . The church was started in the second half of the 11th century in the Romanesque style and consecrated at the beginning of the 12th century. It is the only evidence of a monastery that already existed in the Visigothic era. For a long time the church, which stands right next to the bed of the Lubierre, a tributary of the Aragón , was buried by rubble. From 1957 it was exposed again and an access road was built. In 1965 the church consecrated to St. Hadrian was declared a Monumento Histórico-Artístico ( architectural monument ), today Bien de Interés Cultural .

history

During the 380 years of Moorish rule in large parts of today's Aragón region, the bishops of Huesca sought refuge in the monasteries of the Pyrenees, which had been spared the Islamic invasion. During this time they moved their bishopric to Jaca , to Siresa , to San Juan de la Peña and to San Adrián de Sásave, until in 1096 Huesca again became the bishopric. Up to seven bishops - they called themselves "Bishops of Aragón in Sásave" - ​​are said to have been buried in the church.

The monastery was rebuilt around 1050, the church was completed between 1100 and 1104. According to legend, this is where the Holy Chalice was kept before it was brought to the Monastery of San Juan de la Peña and later to the Cathedral of Valencia , where it is venerated in its own chapel to this day.

Over time, the church was buried. Only the upper part, which was accessible through a window above the west portal, was used by shepherds as a refuge. Despite its exposure, the church remains vulnerable to flooding.

architecture

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The church is built from regularly hewn and carefully strung stones. A narrow, rectangular chancel yoke and a semicircular apse , which is covered with a dome , are connected to the single nave nave in the east . The choir is increased by three levels. A door to the tower opens on the north side of the nave, of which only the substructure has been preserved. The two portals of the church are on the south and west facades.

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The outer wall of the apse divides blind arcades and pilaster strips into three wall sections, each pierced by a narrow, arched window. The blind arches are supported by corbels that are carved with rosettes . A head is depicted on one corbel, and an isosceles cross with a hand on another.

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  • Cross and hand

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West portal

Capital on the west portal
Capital on the west portal

The west portal is embedded in a roofed wall projection. It is surrounded by three archivolts and is bordered by a column on each side. The outer Archivolte is provided with a checkerboard fries , the middle with round bars decorated. The capitals and struts of the two columns are elaborately carved. On the left-hand capital there are stylized leaves in four rows one above the other, on the right-hand capital people can be recognized.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : San Adrián de Sásave  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Diócesis de Huesca. Historia (Spanish, accessed February 18, 2014)

Coordinates: 42 ° 40 ′ 33 "  N , 0 ° 35 ′ 26.5"  W.