Oosteeklo Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey Oosteeklo was 1217-1798 a monastery of Cistercian nuns , first in Eeklo , from about 1,540 in Oosteeklo today: Assenede , and from 1585 in Ghent , Province of East Flanders , in Belgium .
history
In 1217 a nunnery was founded in Eeklo north of Ghent, which moved to Oosteeklo before 1250 and played a role in the reclamation of the heather. The proximity to Doornzele Abbey was the subject of complaints by the Abbot of Clairvaux . In 1577 the monastery was devastated by the Geusen . In 1585 the nuns went to their refuge Posteernehof at Posteernepoort in Ghent (today demolished). In 1798 the monastery was dissolved by the French Revolution . Only in Oosteeklo does the (now restored) guest house still bear witness to the former bloom.
literature
- Joseph-Marie Canivez : L'ordre de Cîteaux en Belgique des origines (1132) au XXe siècle. Aperçu d'histoire monastique . Abbaye Notre-Dame de Scourmont, Forges-lez-Chimay 1926, pp. 488-493.
- Michel Nuyttens: Abbaye d'Oosteeklo . In: Monasticon Belge . VII, 3. Liège 1980, pp. 437-446.
- Martine Pieteraerens, Geert van Bockstaele and Luc Robijns: Van Beaupré dead Zwijveke. Cisterciënzers in Oost-Vlaanderen (1200-1999) . Provinciebestuur Oost-Vlaanderen, Gent 1999, pp. 108-117.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 374.
Web links
- Mention of "Oost-Eeklo" in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensis
- Official description of Abdij Oosteeklo, Dutch
- Report on the mystical visions of Sister Victoria, Dutch
- Page about a brewery on the site of the former Oosteeklo Abbey, Dutch
- The Ghent refuge of the Oosteeklo Abbey, picture
- Information about the monastery, Dutch
- Article by Dominique Vanwijnsberghe on the Oosteeklo antiphonal, French