Maribo Cathedral
Today only the church remains of Maribo Abbey, which according to the rule of the Bridgettine order was a so-called double monastery, since it housed both monks and nuns.
The two sexes had to live strictly segregated and therefore they each had their own choir and altar in the abbey church, the monks' in the west and the nuns' in the east.
The monks' choir was the "main choir", and this was the reason why when the church was restored in the 1860s the church was oriented "in reverse" with the altar to the west and the organ gallery to the east.
The first organ to be erected on the gallery was built in 1865 by Knud Olsen. Pipes from his workshop still sound in the present instrument which was built by I. Starup in 1914 and later enlarged twice.
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© Annelise Olesen |
| Orgler i Danmark / Organs in Denmark |
23-03-2007