Stubber Monastery
Stubber Monastery is a historic ruin of a Benedictine monastery with a nearby example of a former stud farm and traces of the old Drivvej.
The remains of Stubber Monastery lie on a small peninsula on the west bank of Stubbergaard Lake. In the Middle Ages, the monastery belonged to the Benedictine order. The exact age of the monastery is not known, but the monastery has been mentioned as Claustrum Stubbetorp in a written source from 1268. After the Reformation in 1536, the monastery was taken over by the crown and in 1538 given to Sheriff Iver Juel with associated lands. He rebuilt the monastery into a manor house but allowed the nuns to remain, while at the same time committing himself to providing for them as long as they lived.
The original rectangular buildings, which were made of brick, are now almost completely gone. Only the foundations of the northern part of the west wing, where the monastery's cellars probably were, remain, of which the largest of the rooms has been preserved and has since been covered with a thatched roof. The remaining parts of the original building give an impression of what the architecture was like in the original medieval monastery.
Near the old road that leads past Stubbergaard Monastery east of Skave, you can find clear traces of a stud farm, which the monastery also used as a sheep farm. The farm is located on a piece of land with meadow and heath, which has been fenced and used for grazing. The stud farm itself is round with a diameter of 14 meters and surrounded by a rampart with a width of 3 meters and a height of between 30 and 80 cm – highest towards the west. In the middle of the farm stands an oak tree. Stud farms like this are known from several other places – especially along the old driving roads, where the studs and other animals were kept at night.
Outside the paddock at Stubber Kloster, you can also find remains of the old wheel tracks and potholes, showing how the old driving roads often had more of the character of wide corridors than of actual roads. The many parallel tracks, which spread out in several places, clearly show how the wanderers were often forced to make a new track when the old one became too muddy and deep. In the same place as the stud paddock, traces of old plow furrows from the time when the wheel plow was introduced have been found on digital maps/elevation models. They follow plowing directions and boundaries indicated on old replacement maps. The fields were later abandoned and fell into heath - probably sometime in the mid-19th century.
Relations to Geopark West Jutland
There are parking spaces and marked hiking trails at the monastery ruins and in the surrounding landscape. The trails are connected to a larger network of hiking trails around Stubbergaard Sø and Flyndersø ( Non-geological site N41 and Geosite no. 16)