Herkenrode Cistercian Abbey

Herkenrode Abbey

The Abbey Herkenrode was 1217-1797 a monastery of Cistercian nuns at Hasselt in the province of Limburg , Belgium .

history

In 1182 the Count von Loon founded a monastery in Kuringen (today: Hasselt), which (after his death in 1194 in front of Akkon ) was incorporated into the Cistercian order in 1217 as the first Cistercian monastery in the Netherlands at that time . It developed into the largest women's monastery in the Principality of Liège , which also produced important female mystics in Elisabeth von Ryckel and Elisabeth von Spaalbeek . In 1797 the monastery, which last had 16 grangs , was closed; the equipment was sold. In 1826 the Gothic church was destroyed by fire. Today less than half of the old system is left. In 1972 the sepulchrins bought part of the building and built a modern church and a meditation center. The other part of the property has been renovated since 1998 and opened to the public. Excavations since 2004 made it possible to reconstruct the system in a model. Since 2011, it has been professionally expanded into a regional tourist attraction with natural and cultural heritage (museums, parks, exhibitions).

Abbesses

Ingeltrude I. (1182–1205)
Jutta I. (1205-1237)
Ingeltrude II. (1237-1257)
Jutta II (1257-1272)
Margareta (1273-1281)
Aleidis van Diest (1281–1302)
Margareta van Stein (1303-1333)
Agnes van Guigoven (1333-1337)
Beatrix van Lobosch (1341-1354)
Aleidis van Wanrode (1354-1365)

Catharina van Kerkom (1365-1391)
Catharina van Goetshoven (1395-1412)
Aleidis van Rijkel (1414–1433)
Elisabeth van Kerkom (1433–1442)
Beatrix van Reckhoven (1442–1447)
Catharina van Schoonbeek (1447-1456)

Catharina van Pipenpoye (1456-1491)
Gertrudis de Lechy (1491-1519)
Mechtildis de Lechy (1520–1548)
Aleidis de Lechy (1548–1561)
Catharina van Ghoor (1561–1569)
Unknown (1569–1579)
Albertina van Schwartsenberg (1579)
Catharina van Gaver (1579–1585)
Anna van Blockerien (1585-1620)
Margareta van Bergen (1620–1637)
Barbara de Hinnesdael (1637-1653)
Anna Catharina de Lamboy (1653–1675, sister of Guillaume de Lamboy )
Claudia de Merode (1675–1702)

Catharina van Mombeek (1702-1725)
Gertrudis van Mettekoven (1725–1728)
Barbara de Rivière d'Arschot (1728–1744)
Anna de Croÿ (1744–1772)
Augustina van Hamme (1772–1790)
Josephine de Gondrecourt (1791–1796)

Art treasures

Some of the art treasures in the monastery church have been preserved elsewhere:

The stained glass windows in Lichfield Cathedral .
The baroque main altar by Jean Del Cour (1627–1707) in the Virga Jesse basilica in Hasselt.
The majolica tile floor from the choir in the Cinquantenaire Museum in Brussels .
The ornate antiphonal in the Trappist Gethsemani Abbey in the United States .
114 Relics in the St. Quintinus Cathedral in Hasselt.
The oldest known monstrance in the Stellingwerff – Waerdenhof museum in Hasselt.
Painting by Lambert Lombard in the church of Stokrooie (Hasselt) and in the Grand Curtius Museum in Liège .

literature

Cistercian Sites in Europe. Charte Européenne des Abbayes et Sites Cisterciens 2012, p. 23.
Bernard Peugniez : Le guide routier de l'Europe cistercienne. Wit des lieux. Patrimoine. Hôtellerie. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 377–379.

Web links

Commons : Herkenrode Cistercian Abbey - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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