Nieuwenbosch Abbey

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De Bosseveerhoeve, the former abbey farm

Nieuwenbosch Abbey, also Nieuwenbos Abbey (Dutch : Abdij Nieuwenbosch or Nieuwenbos) was a Cistercian nunnery in Heusden, East Flanders, Belgium, later relocated to Ghent.

Dutch language West Germanic language

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Heusden Municipality in North Brabant, Netherlands

Heusden is a municipality and a town in the South of the Netherlands. It is located between the towns Waalwijk and 's-Hertogenbosch. The municipality of Heusden, including Herpt, Heesbeen, Hedikhuizen, Doeveren, and Oudheusden, merged with Drunen and Vlijmen in 1997, giving the municipality its current form.

East Flanders Province of Belgium

East Flanders is a province of Belgium. It borders the Netherlands and the Belgian provinces of Antwerp, Flemish Brabant, Hainaut and West Flanders. It has an area of 2,991 km², divided into six administrative districts containing 60 municipalities, and a population of 1,408,484. The capital is Ghent.

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History

The Cistercian community was established in 1215 as the abbey of Onze Lieve Vrouwe ten Bosse at Bosse in Lokeren, known from 1259 as Oudenbos or Oudenbosch. The site was unsuitable because of the poor water supply and the nuns moved to the site in Heusden in 1257, when the name became "Nieuwenbosch".

Lokeren Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium

Lokeren is a municipality located in the Belgian province of East Flanders. The municipality comprises the city of Lokeren proper and the towns of Daknam and Eksaarde. It is located on the Durme, a tributary of the Scheldt, and is the second most important city of the Waasland after Sint-Niklaas. Mayor Filip Anthuenis ( Open-VLD) was elected for a third mandate during the elections on 14 October 2012. Horse sausages are officially recognized as a regional specialty of Lokeren.

The abbey was stormed and largely ruined in 1579 by the Iconoclasts, and the nuns moved for greater security inside the city of Ghent and built new premises in what is now the Lange Violettenstraat, in part using stone taken from the ruined buildings at Heusden, where the land and the few remaining structures were in due course rented out to farmers. The community was dissolved in 1796 in the French Revolution.

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Ghent Municipality in Flemish Community, Belgium

Ghent is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the second largest municipality in Belgium, after Antwerp. The city originally started as a settlement at the confluence of the Rivers Scheldt and Leie and in the Late Middle Ages became one of the largest and richest cities of northern Europe, with some 50,000 people in 1300. It is a port and university city.

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Present day

The only visible remaining structure on the Heusden site is the former abbey farm, now known as the Bosseveerhoeve (or hoeve Ten Bossche or hoeve Caenepeel). [1]

Monumental effigy of Hugo II of Ghent, in the Ghent City Museum Gent STAM Hugo II burggraaf (+1232) 12-10-2010 11-33-10.JPG
Monumental effigy of Hugo II of Ghent, in the Ghent City Museum

In 1948, on the site of the former abbey church (now the garden of the state horticultural college) was discovered a monumental effigy of Hugo II, castellan of Ghent (d. c. 1232), lord of Heusden and father of Hugo III, the most prominent benefactor at the time of the foundation of Nieuwenbosch. [2] The effigy is now in the Ghent City Museum.

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References

  1. "De Inventaris van den Bouwkundig Erfgoed:Bosseveerhoeve" (in Dutch). inventaris.onroerenderfgoed.be. Retrieved 7 June 2015.
  2. "Gentse Grafmonumenten en Grafschriften tot ...(1584) (ethesis, Veronique Despodt, 2001)" (PDF) (in Dutch). www.ethesis.net (Universiteit Gent). Retrieved 7 June 2015.

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