Grande Chartreuse

La Grande Chartreuse, the Great Charterhouse, is the mother monastery of the Carthusian Order. It is located three kilometers north-west of the village of Saint -Pierre- de -Chartreuse in the French department of Isère.

History

Built in 1084 Bruno of Cologne (around 1030-1101 ) and six companions in the Chartreuse Mountains, a deserted mountainous area north of Grenoble, a hermitage, supported by Bishop Hugh of Grenoble ( 1053-1132 ). The plant consisted of small, grouped around a cloister wooden houses and a church of stone. Already this first Carthusian monastery is called La Grande Chartreuse, the Great Charterhouse.

1132 the Great Charterhouse was destroyed by a landslide and about two miles south of the original location rebuilt where it is located today. The Great Charterhouse was destroyed in the course of time, a total of eight times by fire and then rebuilt.

Today's Great Charterhouse comes mostly from the 17th century, but individual elements have been preserved from the 14th and 15th centuries. More ups of charterhouses followed, the first already in 1090 by Bruno of Cologne in Calabria. This Charterhouse, the monastery of Santo Stefano del Bosco is still today one of the four existing charterhouses Italy.

As in 1903, the monastery by the French government closed and the monks were expelled from France, they were admitted into the Charterhouse Carthusian Monastery Farneta in Italy. Only in 1940 they returned.

Today La Grande Chartreuse is the mother monastery of the remaining 24 offices worldwide, the Carthusian Order. The Charterhouse is not visible to the location outside the Convention Museum.

Others

In 2005, originated in the Grande Chartreuse Philip Gröning film Into Great Silence, in which the monastery gave an insight into the everyday life for the first time film cameras.

Electricity produced by the monks of this monastery Chartreuse liqueur is exported worldwide. With the income therefrom the expenses of monasteries of the Order will be settled without their own income as well as charitable and religious projects outside the Chartreuse financed.