in central Lund is the remains of a stone church built in the
1000's and was demolished during the Reformation. It was found during
excavations around 1980 and was after many discussions built into the house
that was built on the site.
December 21, 2012:
From 1100 to 1250 was built 27 stone churches in Lund. In
the middle of 1000's was the first stone church built in Lund, Drotten
called. Drotten is a Scandinavian word for ruler, the church was consecrated
to the trinity. 1150 became the church abbey to a
premonstratenser monestary. In the early 1300s it became a parish church
when the monastery moved to Öved. At the Reformation in the 1500s was the
church. The remains was excavated around 1980, when it caused a fight. what to
do with the ruin? Remove, preserve? It was finally built into the basement of
the new house in Kattesund, and is now a museum. On
one wall is a plaque of the church. The church is marked by
cobblestones in Kattesund. One can from Kattesund look down on the ruins
through a window. The museum is entered through a restaurant, now called the
Gattostretto, then stairs or the elevator down to it.
Through the roof can one see the restaurant. Oops, a woman in a skirt pass up
there, best to look at the ruins instead. Mirrors give the illusion that one is
seeing the whole church, though it is only one half that exists. The base to
the baptismal font stands in the nave. One can make out the walls of the
church parts, apse, cross, crypt, nave, and the west tower.
At the site was before Drotten an old stave church, the first church in Skåne
was built around 990. This is stated on an information sign. In a booth
are some preserved wooden sticks from another wooden church that stood
nearby. Up in Kattesund its outline is marked in the groundcover. Models of how
the Drottens church may have appeared in other booths. On the wall runs a
runner with historical events since the church's inception. At the excavation
some coffins were found, e.g. the brick coffins. On a pole is marked where the
ground surface was at the time when the church came into being.
It drops in some visitors during the hour I walk around. It is a free
entrance. It's worth a little visit. I leave the ruin for a cappuccino in the
restaurant. Buying a leaflet about the church. I sit at a table so I can look
down on the ruins through the window in the floor.