Tautra Abbey

Tautra Abbey was dissolved during the Reformation in Scandinavia when its lands were passed to the Crown, but the sizeable ruins of the church are still to be seen.

The ruins of the former abbey (Tautra klosterruin) are relatively well preserved and are a favorite tourist destination.

The abbey grew wealthy and powerful, and its abbots often played a major part in Norwegian politics.

It was founded in 1999, near the ruins of the medieval monastery,[4] as a foundation of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey, located near Dubuque, Iowa in the United States.

A community of Cistercians monks is in the process of being established nearby, near the former Munkeby Abbey, the first foundation of the Order in what is now Norway.