page_title: Maribo
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Maribo / Town / History
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Maribo Domkirke Date: 2005.09.17 Author: Sir48
context_page_description: Maribo is a town in Lolland municipality in Region Sjælland on the island of Lolland in south Denmark. To the north of Maribo is Nørresø and to the south is Søndersø. Søndersø is the largest lake on Lolland. There are more islands in Søndersø than in any other lake in Denmark. These include the islands of Fruerø, Hestø, Præstø, Borgø, Lindø, Askø and Worsaaes. This is part of the Maribo Lakes Nature Park, which spans the towns of Maribo, Holeby, Sakskøbing and Nysted.
context_section_description: Saint Birgitta (1303–1373), also known as Birgitta of Vadstena, has cast her shadow on this municipality, and is shown on the municipality's coat-of-arms.  Her order established the Bridgettine Order's cloister in Maribo, when in 1416 monks from Vadstena cloister were sent to Maribo, then called Skimminge, to help establish a cloister.
  In 1536, however, the cloister was abolished.  After the old town church burned down in 1596, the cloister then in place received status as town church.
  King Christian IV's daughter, Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, was probably the cloister's most famous resident.  In 1685 after her release from 21 years imprisonment for high treason from the Blue Tower (Blåtårn) in Copenhagen's Castle, she spent her final years in the cloister, and is buried in a crypt at the church.
  In 1803-1804 the islands of Lolland-Falster, which previously belonged to the Funen diocese, were made into an independent diocese, and the cloister church was given the status of the diocese's cathedral (domkirke) now known as Maribo Cathedral.  The bishop, however, resides in Nykøbing Falster.
  Several times during the 1800s the church has been secured against decline.
caption: Maribo Cathedral
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