Cistercian abbey of Bijloke

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Monastery building with refectory (right) from the 14th century.

The Cistercian abbey Bijloke (French: Byloke ) was from 1234 to 1796, a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Ghent , Province of East Flanders , in Belgium .

history

The Ghent Hospital, founded in 1201, was relocated to the Bijloke district in 1228 and looked after by a nunnery ( Portus Beatae Mariae , "Port of the Blessed Maria"). In contrast to the hospital sisters of Oudenaarde (who insisted on their own rule), the Bijloke monastery joined the Cistercian order in 1234 and was settled by sisters of the Cistercian abbey of Nieuwenbosch . The monastery existed until it was dissolved by the French Revolution in 1798. The sisters were able to return to care for the sick in 1802 and stay until 2010. The Ghent City Museum is located in the splendidly preserved buildings , as well as a concert hall in the former hospital ward (with an important wooden roof structure).

literature

  • Jozef FA Walters: Divorce of the last of the Bijloke te Gent . 2 vols. Veritas, Gent 1929–1930 (364 pages).
  • C. Vleeschouwers: Het beheer van het Onze-Lieve-Vrouwhospitaal te Gent en de stichting van de Cisterciënzerinnenabdij Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-ten-Bos (1215) en Bijloke (1228) door Uten Hove's. In: Annalen van de Belgische Vereniging voor Hospitaalgeschiedenis IX, 31, 1971, pp. 13–34.
  • G. Van Acker: Abbaye de Ia Byloque à Gand. In: Monasticon Belge . VII, 3. Liège 1980, pp. 329-353.
  • Adrie de Kraker: De Bijloke in Noordoost-Vlaanderen, hair grondbezit en de exploitatie daarvan in de Vier Ambachten, tussen 1200 en 1600. In: Handelingen der Maatschappij voor Geschiedenis en Oudheidkunde te Gent 49, 1995, pp. 177-196.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 374.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 40.3 "  N , 3 ° 43 ′ 4.1"  E