Asserbo Charterhouse

Asserbo Charterhouse is a castle and Carthusian monastery ruin inside the small metropolis of Asserbo north of Frederiksværk on North Zealand in Denmark. The monastery was founded with the aid of Bishop Absalon inside the later part of the twelfth century and functioned as a short-lived Carthusian monastery. It later got here underneath Sorø Abbey and elements of it underneath Esrum Abbey and remained so till the quit of the middle ages. In that length the homes have been used as a farmhouse or small manor and administered as a so-referred to as Grangier farmhouse and close by buildings with the aid of the priests of Sorø Abbey. Originally it comprised a main building, a tower with a cellar, numerous cellars and a few half-timbered houses.

The homes were founded on a structure of large bricks, known as monk bricks.1 The web page was surrounded through an embankment and get entry to turned into best viable via a drawbridge from the north aspect. In 1248 we know from written assets, that Asserbo Chartehouse had developed into a small village, the village now called Asserbo. From the 15th century Asserbo charterhouse become leased to various noble households, till Steward of the Realm Poul Laxmand took ownership in 1490. From then on, the ownership shifted among The Crown and numerous noble households till the begin of the 18th century, when it become left to the devastating drifting sands of the time.