Esrum Abbey

Esrum Abbey, also Esrom Abbey turned into the second Cistercian monastery founded in Denmark, placed close to Hillerod in Region Hovedstaden, at the island of Zealand Saelland, on the north facet of the Esrum Sø Lake Esrum near Esbønderup and Græsted. Esrum Abbey commenced as a Benedictine foundation, perhaps in about 1140, and became built close to a pre-Christian non secular site, later called Esrum Spring, where a small timber stave chapel may additionally have existed earlier than the abbey became set up. The basis changed into taken over through the Cistercians in 1151 on the authority of Archbishop Eskil of Lund, and changed into counted as a daughter house of Clairvaux. Esrum in its

flip became within the route of time the mother house of a number of different critical Cistercian foundations: Vitskøl Abbey and Soro Abbey in Denmark; Ryd Abbey, now in Schleswig-Holstein; and Ko?bacz Abbey near Szczecin. Monks from Esrum also founded Dargun Abbey in Mecklenburg in 1172, but abandoned it after opposed military motion 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 but to determined Eldena Abbey.