Løgumkloster Monastery
| Lügum Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 The monastery church |
|
| location |
 Denmark North Schleswig |
| Coordinates: | 55 ° 3 '25 " N , 8 ° 57' 1.8" E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
432 |
| founding year | 1173 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1548 |
| Mother monastery | Herrevad Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Citeaux monastery |
|
Daughter monasteries |
no |
The monastery Løgumkloster (German: Kloster Lügum, Locus Dei) is a former Cistercian monastery in Denmark . It is located in the district of Sønderjylland ( North Schleswig ) in the former municipality of Løgumkloster / Lügumkloster (now Tønder / Tondern).
history
At the instigation of the Bishop of Ribe , Cistercian monks from the Herrevad monastery in Skåne (now Sweden ), a filiation of Cîteaux , settled in Seem east of Ribe in 1173 . They moved to Løgumkloster in 1175, where a Cluniac monastery had probably been located before. It was the reign of Waldemar I and his chancellor Absalon von Lund , who was also archbishop and is known for founding several monasteries. Among other things, he promoted the spread of the Cistercians and converted the Benedictine monastery in Sorø into a Cistercian abbey.
Shortly before 1200, the construction of the church, which still exists today, began, which continued until around the year 1300, and which is considered to be one of the most impressive Nordic sacred buildings. The monastery acquired considerable property through donations and was soon after the bishops of Schleswig and Ribe and the Schleswig cathedral chapter the richest spiritual foundation in the Duchy of Schleswig .
After the Reformation , which probably brought the end of the convent in 1548, Duke Johann the Elder of Schleswig-Holstein-Hadersleben received the monastery as a fief . The monastery church became the parish church, while the monastery buildings were demolished. In 1614 the castle was built southwest of the monastery from demolition material from the monastery buildings.
Buildings and plant
Of the cloister buildings, only the northern part of the east wing with the chapter house, which adjoins the transept of the church and was built in the third quarter of the 13th century, has been preserved. The church is a three-aisled brick pillar basilica , which is vaulted in the bound system. It shows the change from the Romanesque to the Gothic style. The nave received only two of the originally planned three square bays and a Gothic facade with a three-part lancet window and stepped gable . The transverse arms each have two side chapels in the east, of which the inner ones were later extended to the end of the choir . The high altar shrine comes from the church in Jerne . The stairs to the dormitory in the southern cross arm have been preserved.
literature
- Zeitler, Rudolf: Reclams Kunstführer Denmark , 1978, pp. 262-265, ISBN 3-15-010273-1 ; with floor plan;
- Ambrosius Schneider : Lexical overview of the male monasteries of the Cistercians in the German language and cultural area , in: Schneider, Ambrosius; Wienand, Adam; Bickel, Wolfgang; Coester, Ernst (Ed.): Die Cistercienser, Geschichte - Geist - Kunst , 3rd edition, Wienand Verlag Cologne 1986, p. 672 ff, ISBN 3-87909-132-3 ;
- Wissing, Jürgen: Lögum Monastery , writings of the local history study group for North Schleswig, issue 26, 1972;
- Dehio, Georg : Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, second volume Northeast Germany , edited by Julius Kohte , 2nd edition 1922, Berlin: Ernst Wasmuth A.-G.
