Cistercian monastery Daphni

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former Cistercian Abbey of Daphni
Daphni Monastery. The west facade probably built under the Cistercians
Daphni Monastery. The west facade probably built under the Cistercians
location GreeceGreece Greece
Attica
Coordinates: 38 ° 0 '47 "  N , 23 ° 38' 9"  E Coordinates: 38 ° 0 '47 "  N , 23 ° 38' 9"  E
Serial number
according to Janauschek 		553
Cistercian since 1209
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1458
Mother monastery Bellevaux monastery
Primary Abbey Morimond Monastery

Daughter monasteries

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The former Cistercian monastery Daphni was located 11 km west of the city center of Athens on a low pass through the Egaleo Mountains near the suburb of Dafni, which belongs to the municipality of Chaidari .

history

For the history before 1209 and after 1458 see the main article Daphni Monastery .

The complex, built in 1180 on the site of an early Christian church , was given to the Cistercian order by the Grand Lord of Thebes and Athens, Otto de la Roche , in 1209 after the Frankish conquest in the Fourth Crusade , and it was subordinated to the Bellevaux Abbey in Burgundy , which his great-grandfather in 1119 had founded. The French name of the monastery was Dalphin or Dalphiner. So it belonged to the filiation of the primary abbey of Morimond . In 1271 the General Chapter of the Cistercian Order decided to place the Cistercian Abbey of Conversano in Puglia under the supervision of the Abbot of Daphni. After 1276 Daphni was the only remaining Cistercian monastery in continental Greece . In 1283 there was a Peter Abbot , in 1308 a Jakob, in the 14th century a Jean Fondremand and in 1412 Peter Strosberch. In 1306 the bishop of Kefalonia and the princess Isabella of Achaia asked Pope Clement V to subordinate the church of Santa Maria de Camina in the diocese of Olenos to the monastery. With the Ottoman conquest of Athens in 1458, the Cistercians had to leave the monastery, which was continued as an Orthodox monastery until 1821 .

Buildings and plant

First see the main article at Daphni Monastery .

In any case, the Cistercians left the buildings largely unchanged. The barrel-vaulted crypt under the narthex , which was transformed into a burial place for the Franconian dukes of Athens , was changed. The cloister dates from the post-Cistercian period. It is unclear to what extent the pointed-arched west facade was redesigned under the Cistercians, for which stylistic arguments should speak.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. Millet: Le Monastère de Daphni, Paris 1899, p. 40; Lock, p. 225
  2. ↑ JM Canivez: Article “Daphni” in Dictionnaire de l'histoire et de la geographie ecclestastique
  3. ↑ Beata Kitsiki Panagopuolos, Cistercian monasteries and mendicant in medieval Greece, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 1979, p 57/62; Friederike Kyrieleis, in Reinhardt Hootz (Hrsg.): Art Monuments in Greece, a picture manual, Vol. 1 - The mainland. Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1982, p. 419.

literature

  • Peter Lock: The Franks in the Aegean 1204-1500 , New York 1995.
  • Beata Kitsiki Panagopuolos: Cistercian and mendicant monasteries in medieval Greece. The Chicago University Press, Chicago / London 1979, ISBN 0-226-64544-4 .
  • G. Millet: Le Monastère de Daphni. Paris 1899.
  • Friederike Kyrieleis, in: Reinhardt Hootz (Hrsg.): Kunstdenkmäler in Greece, a picture handbook, Vol. 1 - The mainland . Munich / Berlin: Deutscher Kunstverlag 1982, ISBN 3-422-00375-4 , p. 419.
  • Gérald Barbet: Othon de La Roche. Chroniques sur l'étonnante histoire d'un chevalier Comtois devenu Seigneur d'Athènes , Besançon 2012, ISBN 978-2-9539227-1-4 , p. 61 ff.

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