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Allerengelberg Monastery (Karthaus / Certosa di Senales)

Allerengelberg Monastery (Karthaus / Certosa di Senales)

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Allerengelberg Monastery (Karthaus / Certosa di Senales)

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Location: Schnals - Senales, South Tyrol, Italy

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1. Allerengelberg Monastery Trail from Karthaus

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Historic monastery trail through larch forests to alpine meadows with cowbells echoing across Schnalstal Valley.

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2. Kloster Alm (Schnalstal) – Klosteralm Trailhead Parking loop from Karthaus - Certosa di Senales

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3. Kloster Alm (Schnalstal) – Saxalbersee loop from Karthaus - Certosa di Senales

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1,200m

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Assisipilger

July 31, 2018

The Allengelberg monastery complex in Karthaus in Schnalstal was built at the foot of Katharinaberg. It is one of the most beautiful and interesting sights in Val Senales, because over time the remains of the monastery have grown together with the walls of the town.
From its construction in 1326 until 1782, the monastery belonged to the Carthusian Order. Carthusians are hermits living in community, each living in a house-like monastic cell around a cloister. Their entire life, spent hours together and just as long in solitary prayer, is focused on silence and the search for God. The monastery was abolished and expropriated by Emperor Joseph II as an “institution without a purpose”. The monks were forced to leave the complex in 1782. The complex was then sold to farmers and merchants from the Senales Valley, and thus began the “merging” of monastery and village.
Despite a fierce fire that raged here in 1924, you can still visit the monastery kitchen, the prior's house, the monastery entrance portal, the grotto, the fortress wall and the preserved part of the cloister. Meanwhile, a 90-minute hiking trail leads uphill and downhill to the monastery, which introduces you to the still-perceptible silence of the place with views and quotes along the way.

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Sabine

August 9, 2019

Very nice place in the Schnalstal

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keine Ahnung

August 21, 2019

In the village there is a shop, this has closed by noon over lunch. Opening times see photo. There is also an ATM.

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Allerengelberg Monastery (Karthaus / Certosa di Senales)

1. Allerengelberg Monastery Trail from Karthaus

2. Kloster Alm (Schnalstal) – Klosteralm Trailhead Parking loop from Karthaus - Certosa di Senales

3. Kloster Alm (Schnalstal) – Saxalbersee loop from Karthaus - Certosa di Senales

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