Gudum Monastery
Gudum Kloster is a former nunnery in the northwest of Jutland in Denmark . It is located in Gudum 10.5 km northwest of Struer in the municipality of Lemvig in the Midtjylland region . It has been a mansion since the Reformation.
The monastery of the Benedictine one of the oldest in Denmark and for the first time in a will of 1268 in the reign of King Erik V mentioned Klipping. The name "Gudum" means home of gods and comes from the Viking Age (800-1050 AD), when the place was Thing district .
The church was rebuilt in 1350 in the Gothic style. In 1484 the storm surge "Capella" destroyed the monastery church and several other buildings. The nuns received the order from Bishop Hartwig Juel in Ribe to rebuild the parish church and to build a monastery, which was consecrated in 1492 under the name of St. Thomas Vigilie. In this context, the parish church was converted into an abbey church.
Owners of Gudum Monastery:
- (approx. 1260–1536) Benedictine order
- (1536–1717) Danish crown
- (1717-1732) Andreas Rask
- (1732-1751) Mads Staby
- (1751–1757) Johan Frederik Wedel (son-in-law)
- (1757-1762) Lars Johan Jelstrup
- (1762–1784) Christians Olesen
- (1784–1821) Iver Olesen (son)
- (1821–1851) Christian Olesen (son)
- (1851–1880) Iver Olesen (son)
- (1880–1907) Peder Olesen (son)
- (1907-1909) Christian Ligaard
- (1909-1923) K. Rasmussen
- (1923-1939) Slægten Rahbæk
- (1939–?) LB Rahbæk
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- ↑ Germanic religious history: Sources and source problems Heinrich Beck, Detlev Ellmers, Kurt Schier (ed.) S. 525 and J. Kousgård Sørensen: Gudhem, Frühmedalterliche Studien 19 (1985) S. 131–38: “A special case is the name Gudhem ( Gudhjem, Gudme, Gudum), which occurs several times in Denmark, Norway and Sweden. ”As J. Kousgård Sørensen has shown convincingly, this name is based on an identical appellative, literally home of gods
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Coordinates: 56 ° 31 ′ 13 ″ N , 8 ° 27 ′ 35 ″ E