Skokloster monastery
| Cistercian monastery Skokloster | |
|---|---|
| location | Sweden Uppsala län |
| Coordinates: | 59 ° 42 '16.6 " N , 17 ° 37' 25.8" E |
| founding year | around 1230 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1527 |
Skokloster Monastery is a former Cistercian monastery in Håbo commune in the Uppland countryside of Sweden . The monastery is located in the immediate vicinity of Skokloster Castle on a peninsula in Lake Mälaren .
history
In 1225, the landlord Knut Långe took on a number of nuns who came from the Byarum monastery near Vaggeryd, founded around 1170 in the municipality of the same name in Småland , which was abandoned around 1230 for unknown reasons. The first written mention of the monastery dates back to 1244. The construction of the monastery church began in the middle of the 13th century.
The monastery was withdrawn from the crown in 1527. In 1611 Skokloster was awarded to the Reichsrat and Field Marshal Hermann von Wrangel . From 1633 he had the Wrangelsche grave chapel built.
Monastery church
The monastery church has been preserved from the monastery complex. It is a three-aisled brick basilica without a transept and a choir that has not been separated and shows parallels to the Dominican church in Sigtuna . The east side is carefully executed with three large lancet windows. In front of the western front there is a three-aisled, barrel-vaulted vestibule, in front of which there is a staircase from 1894. The vaults were only drawn in after a fire at the end of the 13th century.
The convent buildings originally located north of the church and relocated to the south side after the fire have not been preserved.
The church is richly decorated, including a pulpit which, like the altarpiece, came here as spoils of war from the Oliva monastery near Gdansk , a triumphal cross from around 1250 and an enthroned Mary with child from around 1300 (the latter Swedish work) . The small organ from 1667 is a gift from Carl Gustaf Wrangel , possibly a Hamburg work.
The church houses a two-manual organ positive , which was probably originally built by Joachim Richborn . The Danish-Swedish organ builder Mads Kjersgaard restored and reconstructed the positive in 1964. Seven of the ten registers are still preserved.
In the square Wrangel grave chapel , designed by the sculptor and plasterer Daniel Anckermann , there is a stone tumba , which is crowned by a reclining figure of the field marshal. On the west wall there is a large plaster relief of the Battle of Górzno in 1629. In the south of the chapel three sides of a hexagon are added. There is a tomb under it. It is crowned by a bell roof with a closed lantern in the style of the Dutch Renaissance.
literature
- Rudolf Zeitler: Reclam's Art Guide Sweden. Stuttgart 1985: Philipp Reclam jun., Pp. 192-195, ISBN 3-15-010335-5 .
- Bengt Kylsberg: Sekeringar. Klosterkyrkan på Sko. Övergrans pastorat, 2001, without ISBN.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kylsberg p. 15
- ^ Richborn organs i Skokloster kyrka (Swedish), as seen on August 20, 2017.
- ↑ Zeitler pp. 194/195
