Abbazia di San Salvatore

The monastery of San Salvatore di Monte Amiata in Tuscany in Italy was probably built in the 8th century as a Benedictine monastery in 1228 and went to the Cistercian Order over. It is located in the municipality of Abbadia San Salvatore in the province of Siena, to over 800 m above sea level and east of the 1784 m high Monte Amiata, in the former Via Francigena, which coincided here with the Via Cassia.

History

The foundation should be at least 762 made ​​by the Friulian Lombards Erfone. The legend that it was founded 743 years and as the founder of the Lombard king Ratchis, the successor of the king Liutprand, to. The Abbey was a large territory, which should have extended to the coast, and was in time as the richest Benedictine abbey in the region. The church was consecrated in 1035 in the presence of 18 bishops. On the first Benedictine Camaldolese followed. Well under promotion of Pope Gregory IX. 1228 attracted a Cistercian with a posted directly from the monastery of Citeaux Convention. In 1247 the abbey occupied the monastery of San Pietro d' Acqua Orta, but which was not collected for independent abbey, but the abbot of San Salvatore di Monte Amiata remained directly subordinated. 1497 joined the Abbey of Italian Cistercian Congregation. The church was changed in 1590 under the Medici; while the apses were removed. In the 17th century, the discipline of the monastery subsided. 1783 the monastery was abolished by the Grand Duke Leopold I of Tuscany and divided into apartments. The tags were from 1590 in 1929 partially eliminated. In 1939 a Zisterzienserpriorat was set up in 1960 that could acquire most of the system again. A renovation was founded in 1968 until 1971.

The treasures of the library included the Codex Amiatinus, a Bible manuscript produced in Northumbria at the beginning of the eighth century, which was originally intended as a gift for the Pope, but Rome was not reached.

Plant and buildings

The church has a single nave and has a lower and narrower transept with querrechteckigem transept and an apse with a barrel-vaulted Vorjoch and a twin-tower facade on (the right tower is unfinished). The groined vault crypt with 36 monolithic columns has largely retained their original appearance. The monastic buildings were located on the left ( north ) of the church.

Pictures

Nave

Lombard crypt

Capitals