Abstede

Last updated March 06, 2019

Abstede is a neighbourhood of the Dutch city of Utrecht.

The Netherlands is a country located mainly in Northwestern Europe. The European portion of the Netherlands consists of twelve separate provinces that border Germany to the east, Belgium to the south, and the North Sea to the northwest, with maritime borders in the North Sea with Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. Including three island territories in the Caribbean Sea—Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba— it forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The official language is Dutch, but a secondary official language in the province of Friesland is West Frisian.

According to the 19th-century historian A.J. van der Aa,^[1] Abstede (formerly also called Abtstede or Abstade) derives its name from an abbey of Cistercian nuns. The abbey was closed in 1227, when the nuns were moved against their will by Wilbrand van Oldenburg, bishop of Utrecht, to the St. Servaas Monastery, in the city, that he himself founded.

Cistercian nuns are female members of the Cistercian Order, a religious order belonging to the Roman Catholic branch of the Catholic Church.

Wilbrand van Oldenburg was a bishop of Paderborn and of Utrecht.

Until the end of the eighteenth century, Abstede was a separate jurisdiction, like a village. Between 1818 and 1823, Abstede was a separate municipality again. It was annexed by the city of Utrecht in 1823.^[2]

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References

↑ Abraham Jacob van der Aa , "Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden", vol. 1 (A), 1839 .
↑ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten , KNAW, 2006.

Coordinates: 52°5′0″N5°7′50″E / 52.08333°N 5.13056°E / 52.08333; 5.13056

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[aa-1] Abraham Jacob van der Aa , "Aardrijkskundig woordenboek der Nederlanden", vol. 1 (A), 1839 .

[2] Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten , KNAW, 2006.