Vrouwenpark Cistercian Abbey
The Cistercian Abbey Vrouwenpark was 1215-1796 a monastery of Cistercian nuns in Wezemaal, Rotselaar , province of Flemish Brabant , in Belgium .
history
Amold III. von Rotselaar, hereditary seneschal of Duke Heinrich I , founded the Vrouwenpark monastery ( Parcum Dominarum ) ten kilometers north of Leuven shortly before 1215, which was populated by daughters from the nobility and patriciate of Leuven. Blessed Catherina (Rachel) van Park (also: van Leuven , van Löwen or van Vrouwenpark ) died in 1220 as a Cistercian woman in the Vrouwenpark monastery. There is evidence of a brewery in the 15th century. In the 16th century the nuns had to flee to Leuven several times. The monastery flourished briefly under the Spanish abbess Robertina d'Amenzaga (1655–1664). In 1796 the monastery was closed and dismantled during the French Revolution . There has been a Montfortaner school on site since 1928 .
literature
- Emile Brouette, Abbaye de Parc-les-Dames, à Rotselaar . In: Monasticon Belge IV, 2. Liège 1968, pp. 522-523.
- Ward Caes, Dirk van Eldere and Bart Minnen: Les fouilles sur le site de l'Abbaye de Vrouwenpark à Rotselaar . In: Belgian Archeology in a European Setting . Vol. 1, ed. by Marc Lodewijckx. Leuven University Press, Löwen 2001, pp. 183-199.
- André Despy and G. Despy: Unproblemème d'histoire cistercienne. Les débuts de l'abbaye de Parc-les-Dames . In: Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis 42, 1964, pp. 1242–1254.
- L. Humble L., L. Moors and A. Wittebols: Gedenkboek 50 jaar O.-L.-Vrouwepark Rotselaar . Montfortcollege, Rotselaar 1978.
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 366–367.