Ryd Abbey

The Cistercian monastery dog, Rude monastery, RUS REGIS (also called male - or Ryekloster ) was located from 1210 to 1582 on the site of today Glücksburg on the Flensburg Fjord.

Prehistory

Michaelis Monastery Schleswig

Founded before 1100 Benedictine Michaelis monastery in Schleswig was probably the oldest monastery in Schleswig -Holstein. In 1192 it was dissolved, supposedly from 1289 reported because of the immoral life in the former double monastery, as the chronicle narratio de Monasterio S. Michaelis apud Slesvicum et de Funda Tione Monasterii Aureae insulae. The monks were moved to the newly founded Cistercian monastery in Guldholm and for adopting the stricter rule obliged the majority of the convent property was overwritten the new monastery. The nuns remained in the convent until three years later ( 1194) the Benedictine monastery of St. John's monastery was founded before Schleswig. The former monastery church of St. Michael on the Mount, a Romanesque rotunda of the 12th century, continued to be used as a parish church until it collapsed in the 1850s, and in the 1870s, replaced by a (now demolished again ) new building.

Newly established in Guldholm

1191 founded the Schleswiger Bishop Valdemar the monastery Insula Aurea ( gold island = Guldholm ) new as filiation ( daughter convent ) of the monastery Esrom on Zealand on his Patrinomialgut in Guldholm on the shore of Long Lake near Schleswig. Waldemar, the son of the Danish king Knut V. himself had ambitions to the throne, could have pursued on his own land next to personal piety and political objectives in this establishment, because monasteries played an important role in the still sparsely populated Schleswig -Holstein.

End of 1192 was Bishop Waldemar deposed and imprisoned, after which the Benedictine monks returned to their old monastery in Schleswig. For several years she fought for the return of the Michaelis monastery associated with possessions, what became known as the "Monks war" in the chronicles. 1196 a papal arbitration ultimately decided in favor of Guldholm and for amending the Rule. One of King Canute VI. deed confirmed by Nicolaus, Waldemar's successor as Bishop of Schleswig, the new monastery referred inter alia the bishop's share of the churches of St. Michaelis in the mountains, Kahleby, Nübel and Tolk. In addition, the monastery far-flung land ownership had even eiderstedt and Als.

The Guldholmer monastery did not last long. It was 1210 for unknown reasons in the parish Holtesbratorp (now Munkbrarup ) laid. Perhaps the unfavorable situation had made ​​it necessary to move in the floodplain, perhaps, political considerations also played a role after Waldemar in 1208 by Pope Innocent III. had been deposed as bishop of Schleswig. Supposedly have lived as an administrator at the abandoned monastery until 1312 a lone priest. Today, except for a few foundation stones and brickbats in the long lake of the monastery Guldholmer nothing more to see.

Rus Regis or Rudekloster

To ensure the financial bishop had assigned, now heading Rus Regis ( = royal slash ) or Rudekloster 1209 Bishop tithes in Munkbrarup, Grundhof and Broacker in exchange for income from Insula Aurea. With the founding of the monastery of the settlement and cultivation of the northern fishing began. The monks dammed the Mühlensee, the present castle pond, and built in Frörup a still water mill. In December 1210 was the first time read the rule in the new monastery, indicating that the monastic buildings were largely completed at this time.

1237 became the monastery degree of independence from the sovereign and its own jurisdiction. 1433 received the Rudekloster the right to the income of the Sanctuary Klues ( Hdt. hermitage ). By 1400, Pope Boniface IX. the chapel next to this wondrous Hermitage ( Hermitage ) north of Flensburg declared as sacred and awarded benefactors and visitors four years and 40 days drain. The monastery had a connection to the rival city of Flensburg Franciscan Monastery. Both monasteries were usually loyal to the King of Denmark, Duke of Schleswig and Count of Holstein. However, sources on monastic life are scarce. They were destroyed in a fire in 1786 Glücksburg Castle. One issued by Pope Leo X. certificate can be inferred that the monastery impoverished in 1514 and was in a structurally poor condition.

After the introduction of the Reformation in 1538, the monastery was evangelical, but secularized after the death of the last abbot in 1557 and took over the extensive lands, buildings, and probably valuable goods from the Duke of Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg. After the fire of 1565, the church of St. Lawrence Munkbraruper dilapidated monastery church also served as a parish church. 1582 was the monastery to Duke Johann the Younger, who demolished it once and build on the foundation his new Glücksburg Castle.

Traces of the monastery

Of the buildings of the Rudeklosters nothing more has received because Glücksburg Castle was built from demolition stones: as a building material for the foundation granite blocks of the old monastery church were used, many of the bricks for the brick building. The foundations sunk into the pent Munkbraruper Au. From the inventory, the triumphal cross the monastery church was preserved, which is now used as an altar cross in the renewed in the year of termination Munkbraruper Laurentius Church.

When draining the water from the water castle have been seen in earlier centuries, fragments of the walls of adjoining buildings of the former convent and tombs of monks. In 1710 Duke Philipp Ernst von Schleswig -Holstein -Sonderburg- Glücksburg ( r. 1698-1729 ) the floor of a room in the castle design with an ornament made ​​of planks that had been recovered from the graves of the monks.

However, the absence of sources was long unknown where exactly was the monastery. The appearance is known map created by only one in 1596, so year after the demolition. Targeted excavations were first held in 1962 and 1969, when the water of the castle pond was drained. This building rest and graves were found but could not be clearly assigned to the monastery, however.

In October 2005, the water of the castle pond was drained again. Through the Archaeological Office, the Institute of Geosciences and the castle Glücksburg Foundation magnetic studies of the dried-up bottom of the castle pond were made. It previously found themselves metal small objects such as belt buckles made ​​of copper or bronze taps, book closures, windows lead, a seal and coins from the 13th to 16th centuries. Through ground-penetrating radar and geomagnetic mapping the exact location and the floor plan of the monastery were found. It was about 50 meters from the present castle. Visible were monastery, cloister and a three-aisled basilica with a straight chancel. The size of 63 meters long and 30 meters wide, corresponding to the dimensions of Ratzeburg Cathedral. It can be seen that the ground plan similar to the also founded by Esrom Monastery of Soro to the provisions of Bernard of Clairvaux to the building of the church is based.