Cistercian monastery of Calatravas (Moralzarzal)

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The Cistercian convent Calatrava since 1218 existing monastery of Cistercian nuns , the first at Pinilla de Jadraque and from 1581 in Almonacid de Zorita (both in the landscape of Alcarria in the province of Guadalajara was located). From 1623 the order was based in Madrid and since 1980 it has been in the mountain town of Moralzarzal in the Sierra de Guadarrama in the autonomous community of Madrid in Spain .

location

The original monastery was about 60 km (driving distance) northeast of the city of Guadalajara near Pinilla de Jadraque. The place Almonacid de Zorita is located about 70 km southeast of Guadalajara. Today the religious community is based in Moralzarzal, about 35 km northwest of Madrid.

history

The nunnery of San Salvador by Pinilla near Jadraque was founded in 1218 and passed into the order of Calatrava as the second women's monastery (after the monastery of San Felices de Amaya ) around 1265 . In 1581 the convent moved to Almonacid de Zorita and from then on called itself Purísima Concepción (“from the purest conception”) or simply Concepción . In 1623 the convent moved to Madrid, first in Calle Atocha , from 1629 on permanently in Calle de Alcalá , where it built the Iglesia de las Calatravas church , which is still standing. In 1873 he was expelled and had to seek refuge in the Convento de las Comendadoras de Santiago in the Plaza Comendadoras . The lack of vocations in these circumstances led to the last nuns leaving the village in 1896 and building a new convent in the former Dominican convent Valverde in Fuencarral (now a suburb of Madrid), which moved to Paseo del Pintor Rosales in 1912 , from There, however , had to flee again in the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War and in 1939 settled in Calle Hortaleza 88 at a former location of the Magdalenese . In 1977 the nuns moved briefly to Calle Dolores Povedano 11 and in 1980 they moved into a new monastery in Moralzarzal. Since 1965 the convent has belonged to the Cistercian Congregation of San Bernardo (CCSB) . There are monastery ruins in Pinilla. In Almonacid, Calle Monasterio is reminiscent of the former monastery.

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Coordinates: 40 ° 42 ′ 21.7 "  N , 3 ° 57 ′ 37.9"  W.