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Churches and monasteries in Ribe

The magnificent complex’s Ribe Cathedral and St. Catharinæ’s Abbey and Monastery are the last remains of all the medieval churches, abbeys, chapels and hospitals of old Ribe.

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Had you lived in Ribe during the High Middle Ages, you would have been able to visit ten churches and four abbeys. After the Reformation in 1536, what remained was Ribe Cathedral and also St. Catharinæ’s Church as a parish church, while the Abbey continued to serve as a hospital.

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Ribe Cathedral is visible for miles across the flat landscape, and it is amazing to think that travellers have been met by this sight since the middle of the 13th century when it was completed. Ribe C...

St. Catharinæ Church and Abbey

St. Catharinæ Church and Abbey, founded in 1228 as an abbey for mendicants friars of the Dominican order. The present St. Catharinæ Church was build in the 15th century and it is the third one to occu...

Churches in the nearby of Ribe

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Vester Vedsted Church

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Hjortlund Church

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Mandø Church was built in 1639 and is one of three known church buildings on Mandø.The sea claimed the earlier churches. Mandø Church is a fine example of how the sea and the weather on the whole, ha...