Rein Abbey, Norway

Reins monastery is an old manor house in the village of Rissa east of the mouth of the Trondheim fjord.

King Olav Kyrre had the estate of his closest advisors Skule Tostesson, the son of Toste Godwinsson transferred. Duke Skule Bårdsson inherited the farm from his father's family and built to clean around 1230 a nunnery, whose church was dedicated to the Apostle Andrew .. The Order is not known. His sister Sigrid became the first abbess of the monastery. Margaret, the wife of King Håkon Håkonsson, retired after the death of her husband on these stately home, where she had grown up. Reins monastery was apparently an aristocratic convent pin for women from the nobility, who had remained unmarried, or wanted to devote to learning. Such there were many in Europe. In Scandinavia nunneries were the einzeigen institutions in which women were able to acquire education. The nobility took such facilities in order to maintain his aristocratic lifestyle under changing conditions can. Widows and other elderly women were there for their retirement shopping ( Provent ). So spent Skulesdatter Margaret, daughter of Skule Bårdsson and widow of King Håkon Håkonsson 1267 from their retirement until her death in 1270 in Rein monastery.

1317 should be burned the monastery.

1531 was appointed Ingerd Otter Datter of King Frederick I of government of the monastery. But since Archbishop Olav opposed this decision, she could only hold office in 1541. The monastery possessed as 202 large estates. They managed the estate until her death in 1555. Thereafter, the monastery was dissolved during the Reformation and a fief until Christian V sold it to the commercial Assessor ebb Carstensen. He was married to Anna Hornemann, and so the manor came into the Hornemann family. Reins monastery had long headquarters privileges.

Part of the monastery church are preserved as a ruin. The church was a long church with a transept and two small chapels on each side of the east choir. The western front to the lower part of the west gable are obtained. The church was apparently built in several stages. The first church was probably built in the shape of a cross, was later extended with a nave to the west, so that the church was almost 40 meters long. The foundations of the monastery lie below the present main building of the court of 1866. Stonemason and architectural details suggest that a connection with the construction work was at the Cathedral Church of Nidaros.

Most estates are now being sold, and the estate had 2009 or 1800 hectares, of which 57 are farmed arable land and 3 20 managed forest.

During excavations in 1860 was found under the walls of the monastery many skeletons, including a particularly large man, who was believed initially for Duke Skule. But whose grave stone is located in the cathedral at Nidaros. Tomas Hornemann built in 1866, today the main building on the monastery grounds.

The ruined monastery itself is the property of Foreningen til norske Fortidsminnesmerkers Bevaring ( Association for the Preservation of Norwegian Antiquities ). There is also the Nissa City Museum and the dairy farm museum. The garden, where ash from the late Middle Ages are, and the large park was created in the years 1992-1997 again.