Kärkna Abbey

Daughter monasteries

No

Monastery Kärkna ( Sokolov, Valkena ) is a former Cistercian monastery in Estonia.

Location

The monastery is located about 8 km north of the Estonian town of Tartu ( Dorpat ) in the village Lammiku near the mouth of the river nurse in the river Emajögi ( Embach ).

History

The monastery was founded before 1233 by Bishop Dorpat Hermann I and staffed by monks from the monastery Pforta from the filiation of the monastery Mori Moon over Klosterkamp and Walkenried Abbey. A first destruction by pagan inhabitants of the area is mentioned for the year 1234. After attacks of Russian princes of Suzdal and Novgorod it was rebuilt around 1240 in the form of a surrounded by a rectangular granite wall and moat fortress. In 1305 it was the devices connected to the Cistercian Order in the previous year at the monastery Stolpe in Pomerania Peene assumed. In August 1558, the monastery was destroyed at the beginning of the Livonian War. Remains of foundations and the walls have been preserved.

Buildings and plant

The approximately 47 m long rectangular nave with five domed church was Jochen and ( unusual for Cistercian systems) two-aisled crypt with ten yokes, which served as a grave laying and at the same time as a shelter. In the south, the exam square joined with a chapter room in the east wing.

Abbots

• P. .. - 1234
• Gottfried - 1253
• B. .. - 1264
• Winand - 1277-1288
• Daniel - 1295-1298
• John of Haapsalu - before 1304
• Dietmar - 1304-1308
• Hermann - 1327-1336
• Eberhard - 1346
• Johannes - 1354
• Albert - 1388-1397
• Bertold - 1411-1433
• Gottfried Mäke - 1462-1466
• Johannes - 1484
• Lambert - 1504-1525
• Christopher Hogen Stone - 1528-1535
• Gerhard - 1538-1540
• Hermann Wesel - 1544-1558 (also Bishop of Dorpat from 1554 )