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14-518: The monastery was founded in 1192 at Klaarkamp Abbey near Dokkum (of the filiation of Clairvaux ). Aduard Abbey in its turn founded Ihlow Abbey in East Frisia in 1231. In 1259 Aduard took over Termunten Abbey , at that time still in Menterna, previously a Benedictine double monastery (the nuns were dispatched to a separate establishment, the short-lived Midwolde Abbey). Aduard Abbey

28-599: A grietman (mayor) who was holding office in Rinsumageast and Dantumawâld. The Dutch Municipalities Act of 1851 (Dutch: Gemeentewet van 1851) abolished the grietenijen, which automatically became gemeenten (municipalities) headed by a mayor. The Dantumadiel municipality is composed of 11 towns with a total of 19,030 inhabitants in 2014; the towns and their 2014 populations are listed in the table. Source: Website Dantumadiel municipality * Including Feanwâldsterwâl The Dantumadiel municipal government consists of

42-415: Is believed to have been formally dissolved in 1594. The last abbot died in 1613. The former abbey precinct is identical to the centre of the present village of Aduard. The first abbey church, probably built immediately after the foundation, was replaced between 1240 and 1263 by a second, enlarged church. This building, as Ubbo Emmius reports in detail and as was confirmed by excavations from 1939 to 1941,

56-660: Is the more generally accepted account, or from Riddagshausen Abbey near Braunschweig , in which case Klaarkamp was of the filiation of Morimond . The abbey's daughter houses were Bloemkamp Abbey (founded c. 1190 near Bolsward ), Aduard Abbey (founded 1192) and Gerka Abbey (founded 1240 in Gerkesklooster near Buitenpost ). The monastery was engaged in brick production from the clay on its land, and employed hundreds of lay brothers in this work. The abbey's main estates were in Jannum , Sibrandahûs , Feanwâlden and on

70-662: The Aduarder kring ("Aduard circle"). The most informative source on this is the 1528 letter from Goswinus van Halen to his former pupil Albertus Risaeus , in which he gives a summary of the main members of the Aduarder Kring, in total 23 names, and adds that there were more. After the death of Hendrik van Rees the emphasis on studies was slightly reduced, but discussions and presentations also took place under later abbots. Albertus Risaeus presented his enlightened ideas here, for which scholars such as Philipp Melanchthon praised

84-516: The province of Friesland in the Netherlands . Dantumadiel is a rural municipality characterized by economic activity and agriculture. The first time Dantumadiel is mentioned was in a document from 1242. At that time Dantumadiel, or Donthmadeil as it was then known, was a part of the Winninghe district, the northern part of Oostergo . The grietenij (municipality) Dantumadiel was led by

98-401: The alphabet, which can be moved around to make whole texts. Such mediaeval lettered bricks may be seen as an early form of moveable type . The high point of the abbey school was in the mid-15th century, when the abbey was able to attract scholars from across Northern Europe, including Wessel Gansfort , Rudolf Agricola and Alexander Hegius . They came to debate in the abbey's little academy,

112-606: The island of Schiermonnikoog . It also owned a grange at Betterwird , apparently in Westdongeradeel. During the Reformation battles of the Eighty Years' War Friesland converted to Protestantism and secularised all its religious houses. On 31 May 1580 the abbey was dissolved and its assets confiscated by the state of Friesland. The buildings were sold off and demolished. In the 19th and early 20th centuries

126-546: The land. The abbey perished in the wars that accompanied the Reformation . In 1580 the buildings, including the priceless library and the monastery archives, were destroyed by fire after an attack by the Geuzes . The monks fled to their town house in Groningen. Most of the abandoned abbey buildings were soon demolished and the resulting rubble used as a building stone for the inhabitants of the surrounding countryside. The abbey

140-408: The mound, about 4 metres high, on which the monastery had stood was removed, and some excavation took place at that time. Nothing remains of the abbey buildings. The site is marked by a monolith. 53°18′43″N 5°56′22″E  /  53.31194°N 5.93944°E  / 53.31194; 5.93944 Dantumadeel Dantumadiel ( West Frisian pronunciation ) is a municipality in

154-558: The school and its students. Klaarkamp Abbey Klaarkamp Abbey ( Dutch : Klooster Klaarkamp ; Latin : Monasterium beatae Mariae de Claro Campo ) was a Cistercian monastery in the community of Dantumadeel , about 4 kilometres southwest of Dokkum and 2 kilometres north of Rinsumageast in the Dutch province of Friesland . The abbey was founded in either 1163 or 1165, either directly from Clairvaux Abbey in France , which

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168-402: Was about 83 metres long and the transept was about 40 metres wide. The nave had three aisles and five bays. The transept had two rectangular chapels to the east of each wing. The choir had an ambulatory and seven semi-circular choir chapels, on the model of Clairvaux Abbey . To the south of the church lay the courtyard and the cloister . The infirmary (or refectory ) still survives and

182-411: Was considered one of the richest, largest and best-known monasteries in the northern Low Countries. From 1245 it had an abbey school. At the end of the 14th century discipline relaxed for a time, but was re-established. In the abbey's heyday under Abbot Henricus van Rees , in the second half of the 15th century, some 300 monks lived there and played a significant part in the reclamation and cultivation of

196-403: Was restored between 1917 and 1928. It is a large long hall building two storeys in height, made out of brick, with pointed-arch windows and blind windows, and a wooden barrel vault roof, dating from around 1300. The building is now used as a Reformed church. Part of the original floor of glazed bricks has survived, including some early 14th-century plaster bricks, each stamped with a letter of

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