page_title: Sebber Priory
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Sebber Priory / History
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Sebber Kirke i Danmark. Altertavle
context_page_description: Sebber Priory was a religious house located at Sebbersund, near Nibe in northcentral Jutland, Denmark.
  The site is now occupied by Sebber Church was well as Sebber Kloster Golf Club and Sebber Abbey manor house.
context_section_description: Sebber Priory was established as early as 1250 and certainly before 1268 as a house for Benedictine nuns. The priory was dedicated to St Lawrence. Its founding details are uncertain; it may have begun as an Augustinian house.
  It appears that Sebbersund  was already a village in Viking times, a trading place for ships plying the Limfjord between the North Sea and the Baltic.  Over 300 Viking age graves were found in one of the largest Viking cemeteries found to date on the same ground as the priory was built.  Sebbersund seems to have historically been a religious site dating to pre-Christian times.  
  Sebber Priory was constructed in Gothic style of red brick, the most common building material of the time. The priory was built to house approximately 12 Benedictine nuns in a relatively isolated place where they could practice a contemplative life without interference from the outside world. The original monastery included a refectory, assembly hall, dormitory as well as the Priory church (Klosterkirken).
caption: Altar of Sebber Church
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