Ten Roosen Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey Ten Roosen (also: Ten Rozen or Ter Roosen ) was 1235-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Aalst , East Flanders Province , Belgium .
history
In 1228 a nunnery was founded in Aalst (French: Alost ), which was accepted into the Cistercian Order in 1235 and erected stately monastery buildings in the 13th century. Looting and destruction occurred in the 16th and 17th centuries, but the community survived (at last with 58 people) until it was abolished by the French Revolution . In Aalst, the street names “Oude Abdijstraat” and “Rozendreef” are reminiscent of the former abbey, of which there are no remains. There is a children's sanatorium on site, which keeps the memory of the monastery alive.
literature
- M. Uyttersprot and W. Vernaeve: De abdij Ten Roosen te Aalst . In: Het Land van Aalst 50, 1998, pp. 281-290.
- E. Houtman: Abbaye de Ten Roosen près d'Alost . In: Monasticon Belge . VII, 3. Liège 1980, pp. 447-460.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 375.
- Jan Coppens: Vijf eeuwen Abdij Ten Roosen in de Praterij Mijlbeke . (Self-published) 1999 (146 pages).