Cistercian Abbey Spermalie

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The Cistercian Abbey Spermalie was 1200-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns , first in the hamlet Spermalie in Slijpe at the site of the later Sint-Pieters-Kapelle (today part of Middelkerke ), from 1240 Sijsele (today Damme ), and finally from 1578 in Bruges , West Flanders Province , in Belgium .

history

Spermalie I convent (the name means “new land”, “drained moor”) in Sint-Pieters-Kapelle, Middelkerke, founded by a nobleman in 1200 and joined the Cistercian order in 1239 , was relocated to Sijsele, Damme, east of Bruges in 1240 received the name Our Lady of New Jerusalem (Spermalie II). The devastation of the monastery in 1577 drove the nuns to refuge in Bruges, where from 1601 the refuge of the Ten Duinen monastery could be bought, moved into and expanded (Spermalie III). It lived there until it was abolished (and partially dismantled) by the French Revolution in 1796. The Koninklijk Instituut Spermalie (an autistic, blind and deaf-mute school of the Congregation Befers van de Kindsheid van Maria is located in the remaining monastery buildings of Spermalie III Ter Spermalie , founded in 1836 by Charles Carton, 1802–1863), as well as the Hotel en Toerismeschool Spermalie of the same sisters.

literature

  • 800 jaar sperm. Tentoonstellingscatalogus , ed. from the Congregatie van de Befers van de Kindsheid van Maria ter Spermalie in Brugge, the lieheid van de honderd vijftigste verjaardag van hun stichting, 1836–1986. Bruges 1986 (559 pages).
  • G. Van der Stichele: Spermalie. Aantekeningen over ontstaan ​​en divorceis van de oude Abdij van “Spermalie” . Bruges 1961 (48 pages).
  • EI Strubbe and L. Milis: Abbaye de Spermalie à Slype, puis à Sijsele, ensuite à Bruges . In: Monasticon Belge . III, 2. Liège 1966, pp. 447-478.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 369.

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