Sion Ten Dale Cistercian Convent

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The Cistercian monastery Sion Ten Dale (also: Sion or Syon ) was a monastery of the Cistercian women from 1180 to 1580 in Niawier (today the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân ), Friesland province in the Netherlands . (The monastery is not to be confused with the Trappist Abbey Diepenveen , which took over the name Our Lady of Sion in 1895. )

history

In the second half of the 12th century, Abbot Eiso of Klaarkamp Monastery , northeast of Dokkum, founded the nuns' priory Onze Lieuve Vrouw ten Dale (Our Lady of the Valley), known as Monastery Sion. The buildings were erected on a yard meter high to protect against storm surges . Sion vom Tal founded the daughter monastery Sion Ten Berch (Sion vom Berg) in Damwoude , south of Dokkum, in the 12th or 13th century , which in turn settled the Nijeklooster / Nyekleaster in Scharnegoutum. The Sion Ten Dale Monastery was founded by the Geusen in 1571looted and destroyed in 1580. Remnants were still there until 1880. Today only the names of the festival hall “Nij Sion” (New Sion) in Niawier and the hospital “Sionsberg” in Dokkum remind of the former monastery.

literature

  • Willibrordus Menno Jan Brada: Klooster Sion, Niawier . Leusden 1988, 23 pages.
  • Willibrord M. Brada: Cisterciensers in Friesland. Een inleiding tot hun leven en work . Leusden 1982, 64 pages.
  • Folkert Jan Bakker: "The Cistercians in the Frisian area". In: Cistercians. Norm, culture, reform - 900 years of the Cistercians , ed. by Ulrich Knefelkamp. Springer, Berlin 2001, pp. 37–64 (series of publications by the Interdisciplinary Center for Ethics at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt, Oder)
  • Michael Schoengen (1866-1937): Monasticon Batavum 3, Amsterdam 1942, pp. 85-86.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, pp. 420–421.

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