Tautra
Sign in to saveTautra is an island in Frosta Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Trondheimsfjord, just north of the city of Trondheim. The island is connected to the rest of the municipality by a long causeway bridge.
Key facts
- Islands.name
- Tautra
- Islands.image_name
- Tautra.jpg
- Islands.image_caption
- View towards Tautra
- Islands.location
- Trøndelag, Norway
- Islands.mapframe zoom
- 10
- Islands.area_km2
- 1.5
- Islands.length_km
- 3.5
- Islands.width_km
- 1
- Islands.elevation_m
- 26
- Islands.country
- Norway
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title
- County
- Islands.country_admin_divisions
- Trøndelag
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_title_1
- Municipality
- Islands.country_admin_divisions_1
- Frosta Municipality
- Islands.population
- 50
- Islands.population_as_of
- 2001
- Islands.density_km2
- 33
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Tautra is an island in Frosta Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Trondheimsfjord, just north of the city of Trondheim. The island is connected to the rest of the municipality by a long causeway bridge.
thumb|left|350px|View towards Tautra (the causeway bridge to the mainland is seen to the left and Trondheim is in the left background) The island is located almost in the middle of the Trondheimsfjord, in the heartland of what once was the central area of the Vikings. There are remains of the medieval Tuterø Abbey, a Cistercian monastery, that was established here in 1207 and dissolved during the Protestant Reformation. The monastery was placed strategically, very close to the Frostating assembly site—the central law-making institution in this region of Norway. In that context, the Cistercian monks of Tautra monastery became a part of the nation-building in Norway. In 2003, Queen Sonja laid the cornerstone of Tautra Abbey, a new Cistercian nunnery on the island.