Bloemhof Monastery

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The monastery church around 1600

The Bloemhof monastery was founded by monks of the Premonstratensian order in 1213. It stood in Wittewierum in what is now the Dutch province of Groningen . The most famous resident of the monastery was Emo von Wittewierum , the initiator of the Chronicon abbatum in Werum , which he wrote in medieval Latin and which his successors Menko and Folkert continued until 1296 . Bloemhof Monastery was the mother monastery of the East Frisian Sconamora Monastery .

In the 15th century Bloemhof joined the reform movement of the Devotio moderna and developed within the Frisian Circarie as a model for the renewal of the premonstratensic religious life. In 1561 the monastery was closed. The church was demolished in 1863.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes a Mol: Relationship between the Circaries Friesland and Westphalia in the Middle Ages ; 2005; P. 148 [1] (accessed on May 16, 2012; PDF; 10.3 MB)
  2. ^ Justin EA Kroesen: De verdwenen kloosterkerk van Wittewierum, Groningen (Jaarboek voor liturgieonderzoek 26 (2010) 59-81)

Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '9.9 "  N , 6 ° 44' 38.4"  E