Porta Coeli Monastery (Werendijke)

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The notice board in front of the place where the church foundations were found
Results of the soil investigation

The Porta Coeli ( Heavenly Gate ) monastery was a Benedictine monastery in Werendijke near Zoutelande in what is now the Dutch province of Zeeland .

history

In 1249 the Benedictine monastery Porta Coeli was mentioned for the first time in the course of a land donation by William of Holland . The donation was later Florens V. confirmed. The convention was also considered in the will of the Adelheid of Holland from 1271.

Since no other sacred building is known to exist in the peasantry apart from the Werendijker parish church of St. Jacobus, this church may also have served as a monastery church. From here, around 1271, the Zoutelander Katharinenkirche was parish off as a daughter church.

Since the convent was not viable in spite of the donations, it was subordinated to the Johanniter Commandery Sint-Jan ten Heere near Aagtkerke in 1317 , where the nuns also moved their place of residence at an unknown date. The convent was devastated by Spanish troops between 1572 and 1574 in the course of the Eighty Years' War .

In 2013, during a soil survey in Werendijke, the foundations of the church and the position of the former Vliedberg were found. A notice board was placed next to the field where the sites are located.

literature

  • PA Hendrikx: De oudste bedelordekloosters in het graafschap Holland en Zeeland . Dordrecht 1977, p. 200 .
  • Aad P. de Klerk: Van Boudwijnskerke tot Zanddijk. Over tien krompen Dorpen in de gemeente Veere , Domburg 2006. P. 24f.
  • Stichting Landschapsbeheer Zeeland (ed.): Gekrompen dorpen op Walcheren weer beleefbaar . P. 5ff.

Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 3 ° 30 ′ 23.6 ″  E