Hovedøya Abbey
Daughter monasteries
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The monastery Hovedøya is a former Cistercian abbey in Norway. His ruin is situated on the Norwegian capital Oslo barrier island Hovedøya.
History
The monastery was founded in 1147 by the Foundation by the Oslo Bishop Viljam as a daughter house of Kirkstead Abbey in Lincolnshire, England, a subsidiary of Fountains Abbey from the filiation of primary Clairvaux Abbey, from which also the first abbot, Philip came. The existing at the arrival of the Cistercian church was dedicated to St. Edmund and St. Mary. It lived about twelve monks and a number of lay brothers. The monastery was very wealthy. It had among other large estates at Bygdøy, in Bogstad Frogner and Ullern (now neighborhoods of Oslo). The monks developed based on self- experiments conducted agricultural practices continue. The legend speaks of a secret passageway between the monastery and the ruins of the medieval Hovedøya Oslo ( Gamlebyen ), but this was never found. The monastery was confiscated by the Crown in 1532 and set on fire. It served in succession as a quarry for the Akershus Fortress.
Buildings and plant
The Cistercian changed the existing nave church by mounting a nave, 25 m long transept and a new chorus to a length of 46 m. The façade, with two doors was a deep porch. Of the located to the right of the church monastery buildings, only the foundations remain. The east wing was not in the extension of the transept, but was added because of a large rock to the west. The four arches of the square chapter house rested on a cylindrical central column and four small columns decorated with foliage on the walls. There were fragments of stained glass from the 13th century and the church floor found (now in the Historical Museum Oslo).