Tautra Abbey

Daughter monasteries

No

The monastery Tautra ( Monasterium sanctae Mariae in Tuta Insula; monastery Tuterø ) is a former Cistercian abbey in Norway. His ruin is situated in the Norwegian municipality Frosta at the highest elevation of the favorable climate Tautra island in the middle of the Trondheim fjord in Nord-Trøndelag.

History

The monastery was founded in 1207. Was colonized by Lysekloster in Bergen, a subsidiary of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, England, from the filiation of Clairvaux. Maybe it's the continuation of the monastery Munkeby. In 1254 the monastery was burned down. 1532 came after the election of the Rights Council Niel Lykke abbot the end as an independent abbey. In 1537 the monastery was confiscated by the crown. The monastery ruins in 1846 by the Norwegian Heritage Association ( Fortidsminneforening ) acquired that secure the system in parts and had carried out excavations in 1879.

About 2 km from the ruined abbey was founded in 1999 on the western part of the island today Tautra (who was still separated in the Middle Ages from the monastery island ) a new Trappistinnenkloster ( Tautra Maria monastery) built, which was a convent of the abbey Mississippi in Iowa, USA, occupied. This was 2006, a new convent building, the architect Jan Olav Jensen has designed and which among other things the Forum AID Prize 2007 was awarded for the best architecture in Scandinavia.

Plant and buildings

The church ruin is 33 times 10 m tall (external dimensions 36.5 by 13.5 m), the western facade of the church is partially well preserved. Next to the church were the wooden monastery buildings. Under the input of the chapter house in the East there were three graves. The refectory was in the south wing. East of the exam were foundations of stone buildings, probably found by a late medieval expansion.