Monastery of Santa María de Huerta

Daughter monasteries

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The Monastery of Santa María de Huerta ( Horta ) is a former Cistercian abbey and since 1930 a Trappist in the municipality of Santa María de Huerta in the south of the province of Soria in Castile and Leon on the border with Aragon in Spain, in the valley of the Rio Jalon on the link from Madrid to Zaragoza in 764 m height.

History

The monastery was founded in Fuentelmonge at the instigation of King Alfonso VII of Castile, daughter of the monastery, founded in 1137 Berdoues in France from the filiation of primary Abbey Mori Moon Cántabos in 1162 moved to the banks of the River Jalon was built since 1179. As a result, richly endowed, it blossomed quickly. Under the government of Juan Álvarez Mendizábal it was repealed in 1833. 1930, the Monastery of the Trappist monastery of Viaceli was repopulated in Cantabria, who use it to the present day.

Buildings and plant

Behind the baroque gatehouse the early Gothic monastery largely preserved from the original state is obtained, which, however, a second cloister was added in the Herrera style from the period around 1580 in the West. East joins the Konversenbau, by one in the filiation of Mori Moon unusual monastery alley (see Kloster Eberbach Monastery Arnsburg, Monastery Wörschweiler, Monastery of Chiaravalle Milanese monastery Staffarda, Neath Abbey, Stanley Abbey, Whitland Abbey, Cleeve Abbey, Sibton Abbey ) is separated from the original exam, was increased in 1540 to a head provided with medallions of saints and founders of the gallery floor. This is north ( left of) the church and follows the usual pattern with kitchen ( with a monumental fireplace ) and at right angles to the cloister gestelltem, two-storey, vierjochigem kreuzgratgewölbtem refectory from the year 1215 that " as one of the greatest achievements of Cistercian architecture in Spain " ( Schomann ) applies, with a separated by arcades stairs to the pulpit of the Vorlesers. The east side is the entrance to the redesigned 1600 chapter house, on which lies the dormitory.

The three-nave, 1179-1200 church built in the form of a Latin cross has five Langhausjoche. The main apse is semicircular, laterally close to each two rectangular side chapels. The above closed just west facade has an arched portal with several Archivolts and a large, twelve-radius rose.

The monastery was declared in 1882, the Monumento Nacional ( Bien de Interès Cultural ).