Tautra Monastery
| Tautra Cistercian Abbey | |
|---|---|
 Ruins of the nave with west portal |
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| location |
 Norway
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| Coordinates: | 63 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ N , 10 ° 38 ′ 0 ″ E |
| Serial number according to Janauschek |
552 |
| Patronage | St. Mary |
| founding year | 1207 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1537 |
| Mother monastery | Lyse Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
no |
The monastery Tautra (Monasterium sanctae Mariae in Tuta Insulation; monastery Tuterø) is a former Cistercian abbey in Norway . Its ruins are in the Norwegian municipality of Frosta on the highest point of the climate-favored island of Tautra in the middle of the Trondheimsfjord in Trøndelag .
Tautra Monastery is also called the new Marienkloster Tautra , which was built not far from the medieval monastery .
history
The monastery in 1207. was established was of Lysekloster settled in Bergen, a daughter of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire , England , from the filiation of Clairvaux . Possibly it is the continuation of Munkeby Monastery . In 1254 the monastery burned down. 1532 came after the election of the lawyer Niel Lykke as abbot, the end as an independent abbey. In 1537 the monastery was withdrawn from the crown. The ruins of the monastery were acquired in 1846 by the Norwegian Association for the Protection of Historical Monuments (Fortidsminneforening), which secured parts of the complex and had excavations carried out in 1879.
Plant and buildings
The church ruin is 33 x 10 m (external dimensions 36.5 x 13.5 m), the west facade of the church is partially well preserved. Next to the church were the wooden monastery buildings. Three graves were found under the entrance to the chapter house in the east. The refectory was in the south wing. To the east of the enclosure, foundations of stone buildings, presumably from a late medieval extension, were found.
The new monastery (Marienkloster Tautra)
Around 2 km from the ruins of the monastery, a new Trappist monastery (Tautra Mariakloster) was built in 1999 on the western part of today's island of Tautra (which was still separated from the monastery island in the Middle Ages ), which was occupied by a convent from Mississippi Abbey in Iowa, USA . This received a new monastery building in 2006, which the architect Jan Olav Jensen designed and which u. a. received the Forum AID Prize 2007 for the best architecture in Scandinavia.
16 Trappist women belong to the convention (as of 2018).
literature
- Lunde, Øivind: Klosteranleggene , in: Foreningen for norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevarings Årbok 1987, pp. 85–119.
- Lidén, Hans-Emil: Tautra klosterruin på Frosta . In: Foreningen for norske fortidsminnesmerkers bevarings Årbok 1969, pp. 114–117.
- Ekvoll, Øystein: Munkeby - Tautra, Cisterciensernes Klosterruiner i Trøndelag , 2003, Fortidsminneforeningen, Den trønderske avdeling, without ISBN (including a German summary);
- Chen, Sheryl Frances: Tautra Mariakloster , Cisterciensernonnerne, Tautra Mariakloster 2007, ISBN 978-82-303-0825-7 .
- Solberg, Helge: Spiritual home. Mary's Monastery on Tautra. Jensen and Skodvin Arktektkontor , Baumeister 2007 issue 1 pp. 76–83.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Marienkloster Tautra is expanded. In: Ansgar-Info, vol. 2018, issue 2, p. 15.