Mariëndaal Monastery
The Mariëndaal monastery (later also Zoetendaal ) was a priory of the Premonstratensian women west of Serooskerke on Walcheren ( province of Zeeland ) in the Netherlands .
history
The women's monastery in Mariëndaal was subordinated to the Liebfrauen Abbey in Middelburg as a priory . It was first mentioned in a document in 1250, and the convent was also mentioned in the will of the Adelheid of Holland from 1271. 1215 settled Premonstratensians from the Antwerp Mary Magdalene Koster, the 1148 to 1155 by the local Michael's Abbey was set up as a woman Convention, first in today's peasantry Heille in Aardenburg over, later they changed to Serooskerke. After that, the abbeys of Middelburg and Antwerp shared the view of the Mariëndaal monastery.
In 1566 the monastery was hit by the iconoclasm , in the course of the siege of Middelburg between 1572 and 1574 by Spanish troops in the Eighty Years War , Mariëndaal was finally destroyed. In the 17th century, the Zoetendale estate was built on the monastery grounds and was demolished around 1780. A sign on the Zoetendaalseweg in Serooskerke reminds us of the monastery and the estate.
literature
- PA Hendrikx: De oudste bedelordekloosters in het graafschap Holland en Zeeland . Dordrecht 1977, p. 200 .
- Vliet, K .: In kringen van Kanunniken. Munsters en kapittels in het bisdom Utrecht 695-1227 . Zutphen 2002. pp. 361f.
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 39.1 " N , 3 ° 34 ′ 41.4" E