St Mary's Church, Oslo

St. Mary's Church in Oslo is the ruin of a gothic church building.

Around the year 1000 was located at this point probably a first mission church made ​​of wood. Later it was replaced by a Romanesque stone chapel for the king and his entourage. By 1300, King Håkon V. Instead, a representative Gothic brick church building with two west towers. Perhaps the Roskilde Cathedral served as a model. The richly decorated church was looted in 1523 when a Swedish attack and set on fire. In the 16th century it was completely forfeited.

To 1868, the ruins of St Mary's was rediscovered. There were archaeological excavations under the direction of Nicolay Nicolaysen. In the middle of the choir, a double and a single grave were found. Two skulls could be assigned with great probability of King Håkon V. and his wife Euphemia. In the older individual grave a nearly complete skeleton of an approximately 60 -year-old man was found, which is likely to be the prince Wizlaw II of Rügen.

The ruin is now part of the Oslo " Middelalderparken Parking ".