Middelburg Abbey

Middelburg Abbey is a former Premonstratensian abbey in Middelburg. At one time it was the centre of a huge monastic complicated. Today components of what survives are used for a museum and as offices. Located about 65 km west of Bergen op Zoom, Middelburg is the most important city and regional capital of Zeeland inside the Netherlands. The origins of the abbey cross lower back to the early 12th century or in advance. Premonstratensian monks arrived from St. Michael's Abbey, Antwerp in 1127, growing a monastery on the site of a former Carolingian stronghold.

The priests hooked up a massive spiritual basis, subsequently incorporating two churches. The monastic foundation also held great lands on Walcheren and in Zeeland. In 1401 the abbey changed into added under direct papal manipulate. Many of the monastic buildings had been destroyed in a fireplace in 1492. Another hearth, in 1568 turned into targeted on the 2 monastic church buildings. Today a few of the surviving homes from the monastic duration which includes the so called new church are inside the late Medieval Gothic fashion, and date from a rebuilding inside the second a part of the 16th century.