Schoo Monastery
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Schoo Monastery
community Moorweg
Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 1 ″ N , 7 ° 33 ′ 34 ″ E
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| Incorporation : | 1972 |
| Postal code : | 26427 |
Kloster Schoo is a district of the municipality Moorweg in the integrated municipality Esens in the district of Wittmund .
The name can be traced back to the Premonstratensian monastery Sconamora , which was founded in the 13th century by the Bloemhof monastery in Wittewierum east of Groningen . The monastery was located where the Schoo domain is today . The complex was abandoned by monks around 1420 and was bought by the prior of the Marienkamp monastery near Esens, Arnold von Creveld, after 1424 and converted into an agricultural farm. Through the secularization in the 16th century, it came into the possession of the East Frisian count and was converted into a domain that was only privatized at the beginning of the 20th century. In the forest to the east and north-east of the domain, traces of two fish ponds can still be seen. The "thick oak" a little east of it is the remainder of a Hudewald forest that belonged to the domain.
On the East Frisian map by David Fabricius from 1589, Schoo monastery is shown, on the Piscator map from 1642 it is called “Sco”, a direct abbreviation of Sconamora.