St. Karin (Visby)
The Church of St. Karin , also called St. Katarina , is located in Visby on the Swedish island of Gotland . The church and the associated monastery were founded in 1233 by the Franciscan Order, founded in 1210 , and completed around 1250. It was from here that the monasteries on the Swedish mainland in Söderköping, Skara, Uppsala, Enköping and Stockholm were founded. The church ruins are considered the most beautiful in Visby.
According to the practice of the order, it was built as a single nave nave with a cross vault. At the beginning of the 14th century, it was transformed into a three-aisled hall church with an initially inclined choir, based on the model of the Dominican Church of St. Nicholas. At the end of the century, the next renovation was carried out on the choir, which was completed in 1388. The vaults of the nave, completed around 1400, collapsed shortly after their construction. The nave, which was subsequently rebuilt, was not completed, however. The brick vaults are a specialty. After the conquest by the Lübeckers in 1525, the church fell into disrepair.
The monastery remained relatively modest. The number of monks was probably around the required number of thirteen. It lasted until the late 1520s; then it began to deteriorate too. The western area was preserved, largely changed.
In the southern extensions of the church there is an exhibition about the churches in Visby, which is open during the summer.
literature
- Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide. Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X .
- Erland Lagerlöf, Gunnar Svahnström: The churches of Gotland. Stein, Kiel 1991, ISBN 3-89392-049-8 .
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Coordinates: 57 ° 38 ′ 25.7 ″ N , 18 ° 17 ′ 44.1 ″ E