Alvastra as it looked in Suecia antiqua et hodierna, around 1700.
Alvastra (Swedish pronunciation:[ˈâlːˌvasːtra]ⓘ)[1] is a small village in Ödeshög Municipality in eastern Sweden. It is known for being the seat of the Cistercian Alvastra Abbey in the Middle Ages, established in 1143 by French monks.[2] After the Reformation in Sweden in the 1530s, the monastery was demolished, never to be rebuilt.
The Alvastra monastery ruin is today well preserved and popular place to visit.
^Jöran Sahlgren; Gösta Bergman (1979). Svenska ortnamn med uttalsuppgifter (in Swedish). p. 4.
^"Alvastra klosterruin". Visitostergotland.se. Archived from the original on 23 June 2015. Retrieved 5 May 2015.
Alvastra Abbey (Alvastra klosterruin) was a Cistercian monastery located at Alvastra in Östergötland, Sweden. Alvastra monastery was founded in 1143 by...
Alvastra (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈâlːˌvasːtra] ) is a small village in Ödeshög Municipality in eastern Sweden. It is known for being the seat of the Cistercian...
his power was the central plain of Östergötland with the church of Kaga, Alvastra Abbey and Vreta Abbey as religious supporting sites. Sverker took care...
Compostela. In 1344, shortly after their return, Ulf died at the Cistercian Alvastra Abbey in Östergötland. After this loss, Birgitta became a member of the...
Sweden Died 25 April 1926(1926-04-25) (aged 76) Ellen Keys Strand, near Alvastra, Sweden Relatives Emil Key (father) Sophie Posse (mother) Signature...
might act as a translator as well as transcriber. For example, Petrus of Alvastra (aka Peter Olafsson) wrote down the visions of Bridget of Sweden as she...
culture in Denmark show evidence of scalping. A man found in a grave in the Alvastra pile-dwelling in Sweden had been scalped approximately 5,000 years ago...
UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A single Scandinavian pile dwelling, the Alvastra stilt houses, has been excavated in Sweden.[citation needed] Herodotus...
Ruins of Alvastra Abbey in Ödeshög. Various ruined medieval Catholic monasteries such as this one stand as testimonies of the appropriation of Catholic...
believed to have taken place in Olustra (Ostra) in Södermanland, although Alvastra in Östergötland has been mentioned as a possible site. After his loss,...
Tripoli Order of Assassins Sverker I King of Sweden December 25, 1156 Alvastra Sweden A trusted servant Canute V Triarchial King of Denmark August 9...
Sweden was founded around 1150 by monks of the Cistercian Order from Alvastra Abbey in Östergötland. The Cistercian Order used the same floor plan for...
and the Swedish bishops, the pope appointed Stefan, a former monk in Alvastra Abbey, as the first archbishop. Shortly afterwards, the people of Värend...
life; his own brother-in-law did that to him at Gestilren. He rests in Alvastra, and the best things are always spoken about him". With his first wife...
their stance and allowed Varnhem to be reorganized under Abbot Gerhard of Alvastra Abbey. An early 13th-century source adds that he made donations to Nydala...
Alvastra pile-dwelling – circa 3000 BC in Neolithic Scandinavia Barbar Temple – oldest of the three temples built in 3000 BC, in present-day Bahrain Diraz...
Saxony-Anhalt. With the exception of some inland settlements such as the Alvastra pile-dwelling, the settlements are located near those of the previous Ertebølle...
and Vadstena in the north. It lies between Lake Vättern and Lake Tåkern. Alvastra Abbey lies at its foot. Geologically Omberg is a horst, a fault-bounded...
Headquarters Uppsala, Sweden Founder Ansgar (According to tradition) Stefan of Alvastra (First Archbishop of Uppsala, under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic...
Notable examples are Lund Cathedral, Sigtuna monastery, Husaby Church and Alvastra monastery. The smaller Romanesque churches in the countryside were often...
participated in the excavations in the vicinity of Alvastra, Alvastra Abbey and the settlement of Alvastra. Alvastra is a small village, next to Omberg, near Ödeshög...
the interior. This type of seasonal interaction may explain the unique Alvastra Pile Dwelling in south-western Östergötland, which belongs to the Pitted...
few such houses. Neolithic pile dwellings have been excavated in Sweden (Alvastra pile dwelling) and in the circum-Alpine area, with remains being found...
mourned his death, that he was not allowed a longer life. And he rests in Alvastra, and God may preserve his soul in eternity". In the same year 1222, the...
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