Original scientific paper
Monasterium B. V. Mariae sub monte seu Promontorio Garigh, alias Garich
Tajana Pleše
; Division for Archaeological Heritage, Croatian Conservation Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The oldest Paulist monastery in the territory of the present-day Croatia is situated southwards from the old town of Garić, at the foot of the highest peak of Dugačko brdo hill on Moslavačka gora. Master Tiburtius founded around 1250 the Monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as Bela crkva (Engl. White Church). Thanks to its political and economic power, the monastery complex was significantly developed during the 14th and the 15th centuries. The monks had left the monastery in Moslavina due to the Ottoman attack to the Moslavina area in the period between 1520 and 1544. The monastery is located on a raised rectangular plateau, defined on four sides by Crkveni jarak stream and its tributaries. Prior to the archaeological explorations carried out in 2009, the monastery complex was densely vegetated. It was nevertheless possible to discern its outer dimensions. During two seasons of archaeological works, the monastery church was explored along the whole length inside the northern part of its longitudinal bisector. The church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (3155 x 1050 cm), situated in the northeastern part of the complex, is a longitudinal, uni-naval (1665 x 860 cm) building, with a polygonally shaped sanctuary (1275 x 650 cm). A richly profiled late-Gothic portal was found on its western front. It was further established that the church interior had been paved with bricks. According to the results achieved so far, it may be supposed that the ground-plan disposition of the monastery complex resembled the one of the Paulist monastery in Pécs-Jakabhegy.
Keywords
the late-mediaeval Slavonia; Moslavačka gora; the Paulist monastery of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Hrčak ID:
76995
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2011.
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