Denmark - Zealand - Esrum Abbey 02_DSC7057
This was my second visit to Esrum Abbey and once again I got there too late to look inside the Abbey. We grabbed some coffee and cake from the cafe and spent a very nice hour wandering around the grounds.
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From Wikipedia : "Esrum Abbey began as a Benedictine foundation, perhaps in about 1140, and was built near a pre-Christian religious site, later called Esrum Spring, where a small wooden stave chapel may have existed before the abbey was established. The foundation was taken over by the Cistercians in 1151 on the authority of Archbishop Eskil of Lund, and was counted as a daughter house of Clairvaux. Esrum in its turn became in the course of time the mother house of a number of other important Cistercian foundations: Vitskøl Abbey and Sorø Abbey in Denmark; Ryd Abbey, now in Schleswig-Holstein; and Kołbacz Abbey near Stettin. Monks from Esrum also founded Dargun Abbey in Mecklenburg in 1172, but abandoned it after hostile military action in 1198, and the later history of Dargun rests on its re-foundation in 1208 from Doberan Abbey. The former community from Dargun went on however to found Eldena Abbey.
Esrum Abbey burned down in 1194 and again in 1204, resulting in the construction of a new church a three-aisled basilica with transepts and a rectangular choir and monastery built out of red brick, the most common building material of the time in the region."
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Denmark - Zealand - Esrum Abbey 02_DSC7057
This was my second visit to Esrum Abbey and once again I got there too late to look inside the Abbey. We grabbed some coffee and cake from the cafe and spent a very nice hour wandering around the grounds.
Click here for more photos from my trip : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157656314165922
From Wikipedia : "Esrum Abbey began as a Benedictine foundation, perhaps in about 1140, and was built near a pre-Christian religious site, later called Esrum Spring, where a small wooden stave chapel may have existed before the abbey was established. The foundation was taken over by the Cistercians in 1151 on the authority of Archbishop Eskil of Lund, and was counted as a daughter house of Clairvaux. Esrum in its turn became in the course of time the mother house of a number of other important Cistercian foundations: Vitskøl Abbey and Sorø Abbey in Denmark; Ryd Abbey, now in Schleswig-Holstein; and Kołbacz Abbey near Stettin. Monks from Esrum also founded Dargun Abbey in Mecklenburg in 1172, but abandoned it after hostile military action in 1198, and the later history of Dargun rests on its re-foundation in 1208 from Doberan Abbey. The former community from Dargun went on however to found Eldena Abbey.
Esrum Abbey burned down in 1194 and again in 1204, resulting in the construction of a new church a three-aisled basilica with transepts and a rectangular choir and monastery built out of red brick, the most common building material of the time in the region."
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© D.Godliman