Munkeby Monastery
| Munkeby Monastery | |
|---|---|
 Munkeby monastery ruins |
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| location |
 Norway
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| Coordinates: | 63 ° 43 '49 " N , 11 ° 23' 7" E |
| founding year | 1150-1180 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1207 |
| Mother monastery | Lyse Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
The munkeby abbey is a former Cistercian monastery in Norway . It was the northernmost Cistercian monastery on earth.
location
The ruined monastery is located near Okkenhaug in the Norwegian municipality of Levanger in Trøndelag , northeast of Trondheim .
history
The monastery was founded around 1150, at the latest in 1180, when it is mentioned, and probably moved to the nearby monastery Tautra (also Tutterø) in 1207 , the grangie of which it appears later. It possibly goes back to Lysekloster from the filiation of Clairvaux via Fountains Abbey in England . An attempt to revive the monastery around 1470 failed. The monastery burned down in 1567.
Buildings and plant
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The approx. 34 by 10 meter large, St. The church, consecrated to Brettiva, served as a parish church until 1589. The existing church ruin has a nave and a choir with side chapels on both sides of the choir. The outer walls are preserved up to a height of 1 to 2 meters. The church was later used as a quarry. The monastery buildings were made of wood. Excavations took place in 1910. The ruin has been owned by the Norwegian Heritage Association ( Fortidsminneforeningen ) since 1967 .
Start-up
In 2007, the main building of the Cîteaux Monastery in France decided to found a new monastery in Munkeby, the first in the last 500 years. A guest house has been completed and is located approximately 1.5 km from the medieval ruin. Four French monks moved there in autumn 2009.
literature
- Lunde, Øivind: Klosteranleggene , in: Foreningen for norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevarings Årbok 1987, pp. 85–119;
- Lidén, Hans-Emil: Munkeby monastery ved Levanger . In: Foreningen til norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevarings Årbok 1969, pp. 118–121;
- McGregor, Michael: Cistercienserklosteret på Munkeby , Spor 2/2000, pp. 12-13;
- Parelius, Nils: Munkeby klosterruin , Trondhjems Turistforening, Årbok 1955;
- Ekroll, Øystein: Munkeby - Tautra, Cisterciensernes klosterruiner i Trøndelag , 2003, Fortidsminneforeningen, Den trønderske avdeling, without ISBN (with a German summary).
