Cistercian Abbey of Vallverd
The Cistercian Abbey Vallverd was 1172-1452 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Os de Balaguer, Comarca Noguera , province of Lleida in Catalonia .
history
Count Ermengol VII and his wife Dolça von Foix donated the Santa Maria de Vallverd (" Green Valley ") nunnery in 1172 on a landscape terrace on the Noguera Ribagorzana river south of the municipality of Tragó de Noguera, which existed until 1964, and was sent by sisters to found the Casbas monastery in 1173 could. In the beginning there is also talk of a double monastery (nuns and monks). In 1452 the monastery was attached to Les Franqueses Abbey (which in turn was dissolved in 1474). However, the nuns of Vallverd were allowed to stay there until their death, the last died in 1475. Peugniez expresses himself enthusiastically about the remains of the monastery church in the difficult to access landscape: “un paradis extraordinaire de 'bout du monde'” (an incomparable paradise on End of the world).
literature
- Josep M. Cots: Santa Maria de Vallverd
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 790.
Web links
- Monastery page, Catalan, richly illustrated, with localization
- City side to the monastery, Catalan, illustrated
- Location of the monastery
- Page, richly illustrated
- Lexicon article on the monastery, Catalan
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 41 ° 56 ′ 2.8 " N , 0 ° 37 ′ 12.2" E