Cistercian abbey Ter Hagen

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The Cistercian abbey Ter Hagen (also: Ter Hage or Tenhagen / Ten Hagen ) was a monastery of the Cistercian women from 1230 to 1796 , first in Axel, Terneuzen , province of Zeeland , Netherlands , from 1268 to 1278 in Merelbeke, south of Ghent , and from 1589 in Ghent, East Flanders Province , Belgium .

history

Around 1230 the nunnery Domus Gaudii (also: Maria Vreugde , "Maria Freude") was built in Zuiddorpe near Axel, today part of Terneuzen , which became Cistercian at the insistence of the sisters Johanna and Margarete II of Constantinople . Because of floods, the nuns tried to gain a foothold in Merelbeke between 1268 and 1278, but eventually returned to Axel. From 1566 the monastery suffered from the iconoclasts and was finally expelled to Ghent in 1586, where it was based in the Molenaarsstraat from 1606 . In 1796 it was dissolved by the French Revolution . In the remaining buildings are now living Zusters van Liefde / Sisters of Charity of Our Lady Mother of Mercy , the female counterpart to the equally by Johannes Zwijsen founded the Friar van Tilburg .

literature

  • L. Cnockaert, De Cistercienzer abdij Ter Hagen . In: Cîteaux (Commentarii cistercienses) 11, 1960, pp. 27-31.
  • Michel Nuyttens, Abbaye de Ter Hagen à Axel, Merelbeke et Gand . In: Monasticon Belge . VII, 3. Liège 1980, pp. 461-472.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 375.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 3 '39.2 "  N , 3 ° 43' 8.7"  E