Pure monastery
Reins Kloster is an old manor in the municipality of Indre Fosen east of the mouth of the Trondheimfjord .
King Olav Kyrre had given the estate to his closest adviser Skule Tostesson, the son of Toste Godwinsson . Duke Skule Bårdsson inherited the farm from his father's family and built a nunnery on Rein around 1230, the church of which was dedicated to the Apostle Andrew. The order is not known. His sister Sigrid became the first abbess of the monastery. Margarete, the wife of King Håkon Håkonsson , retired to the manor where she grew up after her husband's death. Reins Kloster was evidently an aristocratic monastery for women from the aristocratic circles who had remained unmarried or who wanted to devote themselves to studying. There were many like that in Europe. In Scandinavia, nunneries were the only institutions in which women could acquire an education. The nobility needed such facilities in order to be able to maintain their aristocratic lifestyle under changing circumstances. Widows and other older women could also shop there for their old age ( Provent ). So spent Margrete Skulesdatter , daughter of Skule Bårdsson and widow of King Håkon Håkonsson from 1267 their retirement until her death in 1270 in Rein monastery.
The monastery is said to have burned down in 1317.
In 1531 Ingerd Ottersdatter was appointed to run the monastery by King Friedrich I. But since Archbishop Olav opposed this decision, she was only able to exercise her office in 1541. The monastery owned 202 large estates. She administered the estate until her death in 1555. After that, the monastery was closed in the course of the Reformation and became a fief until Christian V sold it to the commercial assessor Ebbe Carstensen. He was married to Anna Hornemann, and so the manor house came into the Hornemann family. Rein's monastery had ancestral seat privileges for a long time.
Parts of the monastery church have been preserved as ruins. The monastery church was a long church with a transept and two small chapels on each side of the east choir. The western front with the lower part of the western gable has also been preserved. The church was obviously built in several stages. The first church, which was probably built in the shape of a cross, was later extended to the west with a longitudinal nave, so that the church was almost 40 m long. The foundation walls of the monastery lie under today's main building of the courtyard from 1866. Stone carving marks and details of the architecture indicate that there was a connection to the construction work on the Nidaros cathedral.
Most of the estates have now been sold and the estate was 1,800 hectares in 2009, of which 57 are farmed arable land and 3 20 are farmed forest.
During excavations in 1860, many skeletons were found under the walls of the monastery, including that of a particularly tall man who was initially thought to be Duke Skule. But his tombstone is in the Nidaros Cathedral. Tomas Hornemann built today's main building on the monastery grounds in 1866.
The ruins of the monastery are owned by Foreningen til norske Fortidsminnesmerkers Bevaring (Association for the Preservation of Norwegian Antiquities). There is also the Nissa City Museum and the Dairy Museum. The garden with ash trees from the late Middle Ages and the large park were restored between 1992 and 1997.
literature
- Terje Bratberg: “Reinskloster” in Store norske leksikon
- Grethe Autén Blom: Hellig Olavs by. Middelalder til 1537. ISBN 82-00-22856-8 . Series: Trondheims History 997–1997. Vol. 1. ISBN 82-00 22663-8 .
- Øivind Lunde: In: Den katolske Kirke ; Purely monastery