Veng Abbey

[1] Veng Abbey was established as a Benedictine monastery some time in the late 1060s, with connections to the royal forebears of King Valdemar I.

Eventually Abbot Jens was brought before a church tribunal and forced to give up his office on the grounds of immorality and theft of the harvest.

[2] [3] Lady Margrethe, the widow of a local nobleman, had petitioned Bishop Sven to convert Veng Abbey into a nunnery with herself as the abbess, a position which would bring with it a guaranteed annual income.

Without income, the Cistercians had no choice but to leave, and in 1168 moved to another site on the small isle of Kalvø in Skanderborg Lake.

The exact layout of the monastery complex has not been determined, but it is thought to have had at least two ranges, a dormitory, and a refectory attached to the church.