Gedsted - Vitskøl Abbey

North of Gedsted it is well worth taking in Vitskøl Abbey, a Cistercian monastery founded by Valdemar the Great. Of the church only ruins remain. The abbey was dissolved in the 16th C. and thereafter known as "Bjørnsholm" after its owner Bjørn Andersen. The three-winged manor, much extended, now houses a Botanical and Forestry Research Establishment. Medicinal plants and herbs grow in the old abbey garden.