Loosduinen Monastery
| Cistercian monastery Loosduinen | |
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| location |
 Netherlands Province of South Holland |
| Coordinates: | 52 ° 3 '2.5 " N , 4 ° 14' 5.4" E |
| founding year | 1230 |
| Cistercian since | 1233 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1574 |
| Mother monastery | Ter Doest monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
The monastery Loosduinen was a Cistercian convent in The Hague - Loosduinen in today's Dutch province of South Holland . The former monastery church and today's Protestant Abdijkerk ( abbey church ) is the oldest preserved building in The Hague and was built in front of the knight's hall , which has great structural similarities.
history
The nunnery was founded around 1230 by Mathilde von Brabant, the wife of Florens IV . In 1233 the monastery was accepted into the Cistercian order. The abbot of the Cistercian Abbey of Ter Doest was in charge of the convent . The construction of the monastery church in the transitional style from Romanesque to Gothic began in 1238. It was completed in 1250. Around 1300, two bays and the richly decorated tower were added to the nave of the church in the west.
In 1574 the monastery went under in the course of the Reformation. The monastery church became a reformed parish church in 1580. In 1791 the choir, which no longer had any function in the Reformed church service, was probably resigned. In 1908 a neo-Gothic transept was added to the east of the church. This was put down again during a thorough restoration of the church between 1970 and 1975. During this time the nave of the church was given a reconstructed Gothic appearance.
The parish belongs to the United Protestant Church in the Netherlands, which was created in 2004 .
literature
- PA Hendrikx: De oudste bedelordekloosters in het graafschap Holland en Zeeland . Dordrecht 1977, p. 198 .
- Monuments in Nederland. Zuid-Holland , Zwolle 2004, p. 343.
Web links
- Abdijkerk website (Dutch)
- Parish website (Dutch)