Kärkna monastery
| Kärkna monastery | |
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 Ruins of the Kärkna monastery |
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| location |
 Estonia
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| Coordinates: | 58 ° 28 '0 " N , 26 ° 39' 0" E |
| founding year | 1233 |
| Mother monastery | Pforta Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Morimond Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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Kärkna Monastery (Falkenau, Valkena) is a former Cistercian monastery in Estonia .
location
The monastery is located around 8 km north of the Estonian city of Tartu (Dorpat) in the village of Lammiku near the confluence of the Amme river and the Emajõgi river .
history
The monastery was founded by Dorpater Bishop Hermann I before 1233 and was occupied by monks from Pforta Monastery from the filiation of Morimond Monastery via Kamp Monastery and Walkenried Monastery . The first destruction by pagan inhabitants from the area is mentioned in 1234. After attacks by Russian princes from Suzdal and Novgorod , it was rebuilt around 1240 in the form of a fortress surrounded by a rectangular granite wall and moat. In 1305 it was subordinated to the Stolpe Monastery on the Peene in Pomerania , which was part of the Cistercian order in the previous year . In August 1558, at the beginning of the Livonian War , the monastery was destroyed. Remnants of the foundation and the ramparts have been preserved.
Buildings and plant
The roughly 47 m long rectangular church had a single nave with five arched bays and a two-aisled crypt with ten bays each (unusual for Cistercian structures) , which served as a burial place and at the same time as a shelter. In the south, the enclosure area followed with a chapter house in the east wing.
Abbots
- P ... - 1234
- Gottfried - 1253
- B ... - 1264
- Winand - 1277-1288
- Daniel - 1295-1298
- Johannes von Hapsal - before 1304
- Dietmar - 1304-1308
- Hermann - 1327-1336
- Eberhard - 1346
- John - 1354
- Albert - 1388-1397
- Bertold - 1411-1433
- Gottfried Mäke - 1462-1466
- John - 1484
- Lambert - 1504-1525
- Christoph Hogenstein - 1528-1535
- Gerhard - 1538-1540
- Hermann Wesel - 1544–1558 (also Bishop of Dorpat from 1554)
literature
- A. Tuulse: The castles in Estonia and Latvia. Dorpat 1942, pp. 270-274.
- Ambrosius Schneider: Lexical overview of the male monasteries of the Cistercians in the German language and cultural area. In: Ambrosius Schneider, Adam Wienand, Wolfgang Bickel, Ernst Coester (eds.): The Cistercians, History - Spirit - Art. 3. Edition. Wienand Verlag, Cologne 1986, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 , p. 654;
- Anselme Dimier : L'art cistercien hors de France . Zodiaque, La Pierre-qui-Vire 1971, p. 49, with plan.