September 22, 2020
behind the university library on Helgonabacken in Lund are some fragments of what was once a large monastery. Take the opportunity to go to them while I wait for an acquaintance. There is also a memorial on the site. The monastery was founded as a Benedictine monastery in the 1000s. It was one of Denmark's oldest monasteries. Several archaeological investigations have been made, but little is known about what the monastery looked like. It was (re)built several times. Several buildings consisted of bricks, e.g. the monastery church. After the Reformation, the monastery buildings began to decay. When Skåne became Swedish, the monastery was taken over by the Swedish state. Materials from the monastery were then used to build other things, such as Caroli Church in Malmö and the Historical Museum in Lund. Among the ruins, a runestone was found in 1680 and is now in the foyer of the university library. What is left of the monastery today are a few small remains. Remains of the fishing ponds that the monastery built remain to the east the university library and the southern part of the Hospital. We go to the museum of sketches and have lunch.

Karta
GPS: WGS84 decimal (lat, lon) 55.70973, 13.197187