Cistercian convent Muysen
The Cistercian convent Muysen was from 1380 to 1783, a monastery of Cistercian nuns , first in Muizen, now part of Mechelen , in the 16th century in Mechelen, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mechelen-Brussels in Belgium .
history
The nunnery Muysen (also: Prioratus de Musenis ), founded in Muizen on the south-eastern edge of Mechelen in 1380 , was accepted as a priory in the Cistercian order in 1396. Barbara Cats was prioress from 1538 to 1553. The Cistercian Johannes Dierxlandt from Hemiksem Monastery died here in 1560 as the nuns' confessor, as did Benedictus (Peter) van Thulden (* 1614), brother of the painter Theodor van Thulden (whose works were exhibited in the monastery) in 1670 . In 1578 the monastery was devastated; the nuns went to Mechelen while retaining the monastery name, where the monastery was closed in 1783.
literature
- Frans van de Leur and Lucas van de Leur, De priorij van Muizen. The moved divorced from a nunnery . Muizen-Mechelen 1988 (60 pages).
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 363.
- Johann Heinrich Zedler's Great Complete Universal Lexicon of All Sciences and Arts 20, 1739, columns 29–30, sv “Mecheln (Cistercian monastery zu)”, with a list of the prioresses.
- Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek (NNBW), part 8, column 394: DIERXLANDT (Johannes).
- Johann Dominik Fiorillo , History of the Drawing Arts in Germany and the United Netherlands . Vol. 3. Hahn brothers, Hanover 1818, pp. 24-25 (on Theodor van Tulden).