Sorø Monastery
| Sorø Cistercian Abbey | |
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 The Sorø monastery church |
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| location |
 Denmark
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| Coordinates: | 55 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 11 ° 33 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
369 |
| founding year | 1161 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1538 |
| Mother monastery | Esrom Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
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The monastery Soro is a former Cistercian monk abbey in Denmark . It is located on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) near the town of Sorø between Slagelse and Ringsted .
history
The monastery was founded as a Benedictine monastery around the middle of the 12th century and, at the invitation of Bishop Absalon von Roskilde , was taken over by the Cistercians from Esrom Monastery , a subsidiary of the Clairvaux Primary Abbey , in 1161 . Sorø became the most important Cistercian monastery in Denmark. It founded the Ås monastery (now in Sweden ) and the Knardrup monastery .
With the exception of the church, the monastery buildings burned down in 1217 . The subsequently newly constructed buildings fell victim to a fire in 1813 . Only the monastery gate remained. This Sorø gatehouse is one of the oldest still inhabited houses in Denmark. Saxo Grammaticus wrote his famous Chronicle Gesta Danorum here in the Middle Ages .
After the Reformation the monastery was continued as a Lutheran convent , a school was set up in 1586 , and a knight academy in 1623 , which still exists today as a public school with boarding school: Sorø Akademi .
In Sorø at the end of the 16th century a copy of the then forgotten medieval chronicle Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by the scholastic Adam von Bremen was discovered, today one of the most important historical sources for northern Germany and northern Europe.
Monastery church
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The towerless, 70 m long church is an originally flat-roofed three-aisled basilica with five nave bays in a linked system, transept with three square bays, two straight closed chapels on the east side and one-bay rectangular choir. It was vaulted after the fire of 1247; the vaults rest on short columns. Aisles and chapels were probably vaulted from the beginning. The church has a roof turret that has been renewed several times over the crossing. In the church there are numerous epitaphs and tombs, including the grave of the monastery founder Absalon. She is the burial place of several members of the Danish royal family . The poet Ludvig Holberg is also buried in the church.
In the church there is a triumphal cross by the Gothic sculptor Claus Berg .
literature
- Anselme Dimier : L'art cistercien hors de France , Zodiaque, La Pierre-qui-Vire 1971, p. 35;
- Rudolf Zeitler: Reclam's Art Guide Denmark , 1978, pp. 360–361, ISBN 3-15-010273-1 .
