Balna insula

Balna Insula is the name of a previously unlocated former Premonstratensian monastery in East Frisia . It may have been on the North Sea island of Borkum . The equation of the monastery with the Aland monastery , which was often used in older research , is now ruled out. It was consecrated to Mary . The monastery is mentioned as sancta Maria in Balna Insula in two catalogs of the Premonstratensian order created between 1270 and 1290 . There were indications that it was in the Zirkarie Friesland and was Diocese of Osnabrück assigned. Further sources have not yet been discovered, so that a clear assignment of the monastery is not possible.

literature

Josef Dolle: Balna Insula . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 1, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-957-7 , p. 33

Individual evidence

^ Josef Dolle: Balna Insula . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 1, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-957-7 , p. 33

[Klosterbuch-1] Josef Dolle: Balna Insula . In: Josef Dolle with the collaboration of Dennis Kniehauer (Ed.): Lower Saxony Monastery Book. Directory of the monasteries, monasteries, comedians and beguinages in Lower Saxony and Bremen from the beginnings to 1810 . Part 1, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 3-89534-957-7 , p. 33