Øm Abbey

The monastery Øm ( cara insula Kære ø ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Denmark. His ruin is situated in the Region Midtjylland ( Central Jutland ) in the village of Ry on Mossø, 15 km west of and within the Municipality of Skanderborg. It was the biggest of seven monasteries in the country referred to as the Monastery Gudenåen region.

History

In 1164 Bishop Eskil of Aarhus gave the abbot Henrik of Vitskøl reason for the monastery in Sabro, which in turn was a daughter house of Esrom Monastery of the filiation of Clairvaux Abbey Primary. This property was not found to be appropriate, which is why the bishop reason presented in Sminge available. However, after a short time the monks moved on to the Monastery of Veng, from there to Mossø and then Øm. The local monastery was settled in 1172 by the monastery Vitskøl from. In 1182, recognition was granted by the Pope. The choir of the church was consecrated in 1257. It was the 393rd medieval Cistercian abbey.

The monks of Øm also laid the eight -meter-wide Munkekanal with sluices between Emborg and Boes. The monastery existed until the Reformation in 1536; the last monk left it in 1560 then the buildings were used for a short time as a hunting lodge of King Frederick II ( Emborg ), but it was stopped in 1561. ; the material was for the castle in Skanderborg use. About the ruins of the village Emborg grew. In the years 1910 to 1941 excavations took place.

Buildings and plant

Located between the Mossø and the Gudensø monastery was between two connecting these lakes channels. The three-nave church had a choir with a straight final and two narrow Jochen in which is located the grave of Bishop P. Elavsen, and a wide transept with two eastern and western zweijochigen a chapel and a short, single-aisled nave. Exam and cloister were right ( south ) of the church. The neunjochige chapter house had four columns. From the plant only foundation walls have been preserved since the crash in 1561.