Abo domimican convent and its ground-plan

摘要

During the twelfth century, the dominic order founded convents in Dacia which were bilt in Lund, Visby, Sigtuna, Skänninge, Kalmar, Lödöse, Västerås, Strängnäs, Skara and Turku. The convents in Visby, Reval and Turku formed a sea convent in the Baltic Sea area which cooperated. The convents had according to tradition four annexes where the church was in one of the lengths. Chapters, sleeping rooms, dining rooms, kitchens and libraries were in the other annexes. Dominican churches were two or three-legged hall churches for example in Oslo and Visby. Asymmetrical churches existed in Denmark and Sweden. The churches of the Dominicans were set up for the congregation with a single choir lacking cross-ships and crossroads. The building style of the Convention Church conveyed styleimpulses and imported bricks style to Norway, Sweden and Finland. The investigation of the artikel deals with Abo convents groundplan and how the terrain affected it's buildings. The article uses archaeological excavation reports, and comparative building history. I have used written sources from the late 13th century to the beginning of the 16th century, as well as research material by other authors such as drawings and photographs taken from the convent during the 20th century. Archaeological materials from Skänninge and Sigtuna convents illuminate the building's components as pillar bases and graves. From the Dominican Convent have been found in the churches, chapels, and refreatur profile and special tiles which is found in The museums website. The convent Church, lavatorium and hypocaust are investigated and compared with similar buildings found in Sigtuna and Skänninge convent which where invesrigated with Gps (ground penetrating radar). The radar found traces of a lavatory, which has not been found from Åbo. Holbæk convent in Danmark that had never been demolished under its existences provided same sort of material. The hypokausts in Skänninge convent and other klosters may had existed in or near the chapters, libraries and priory rooms. Karl Gabriel Leinberg wrote "History of the Finnish Monasteries" (1890) 10 and C. J. Gardberg's "Veritas - Truth, The Dominicans of Turku in the Middle Ages" (2005). J. Rinne reconstructed the basic plan of the Dominican Convention in its publications from 1908 and 1928. L. Laaksonen presented a new basic plan drawing from surveys made in 1967 and 1969. Hiekkanen has written about the Turku Convention in "The Finnish Monasteries of the Middle Ages" in 1993 and "Turun Pyhän Olavin konventti ja sen rakennusmuistot "2003 where he thinks he can not say where the Turku Convention Church was in the area that was built and destroyed by construction work.