Maagdendaal Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey Maagdendaal (also: Maegdendael or Maagdendal ) was a monastery of the Cistercian Sisters in Oplinter from 1215 to 1796 , today: Tienen , Province of Flemish Brabant , Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels in Belgium . It should not be confused with the Cistercian Abbey of Maagdendale in Oudenaarde .
history
Bartholomäus von Tienen (1163–1250), father of the mystic Beatrijs von Nazareth , built the Maagdendaal monastery ( Valley of the Virgins , also: Monasterium Lintrense ) from 1215 to 1219 not far from the Grote Gete river in Oplinter, which is populated by nuns from the Cistercian abbey of La Ramée has been. From 1221 to 1236 Beatrijs belonged to the monastery community and wrote her mystical work Seven manieren van minne (Seven Levels of Love) in Flemish . In the course of its history the monastery was devastated several times, then closed and dismantled by the French Revolution . The remains of the abbey courtyard exist with a monumental portal house.
literature
- Hendrik Delvaux: Inventory van het archief of Abdij Maagdendaal te Oplinter . Brussels 1965.
- Anselme Dimier , Emile Brouette and Eugène Manning: Dictionnaire des auteurs cisterciens . Rochefort, Belgium, Abbaye Notre-Dame de Saint-Remy de Rochefort, 1975-1978, columns 94-95 (Beatrice de Nazareth).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 365.
- Leo Tulkens: Twee grote figuren uit de Geschiedenis van de Getegouw, Bartholomeus de Vleeschhouwer en Beatrijs van Nazareth . In: Uit het verleden van Tienen . Drukkerij H. De Smedt, Brussels 1959, pp. 62-71.