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Groningen, Benedictine Monks and Nuns: Selwerd
This farm is situated near the Van Starkenborgh Channel, which has been dug across the area of the monastery Full Map on Geoplaza.
IDNR: G34
Parish: Groningen-Akerk
Municipality: Groningen
Patron Saint: Catharina
Alias: Siloë. Selwerd
Diocese: Utrecht (but also connections with Münster)
Diocese II: Groningen
Province: Oversticht
Province II:
Gender: m/f
Development: (a) double monastery of Benedictine Monks and Nuns 1207-1217*
(b) adhesion to the reform of Bursfeld 1469*
Filiation: founded with aid from Dikninge (I02)
End of monastic life: 1582*: removal to the town; 1585* demolished
Narrative Sources (CK): -
Narrative Sources (NS): -
Manuscripts (SV): 1114
Archives: GrA : 172
Literature: Postma (1950); Damen (1964); Damen (1972) 51-53 etcetera; Tromp (1989) 23-27; Nip (1989a)) and (1989b); Hillenga (2011a) 51-63; Roemeling (2013) 112; 119; 132; 136; 142
Third Order: -
Monasticon Batavum: III 48-49 nr. 1
MeMO: 84
Van Deventer: not
National monument: 4
Coordinates: 233/585A
Archaeological Monument: 791
Archaeological Status: vhavp
Archaeological Activities: survey 1967; drill inquiry + test inquiry 1997; excav 1998
Archaeological Publication: Ufkes and Schoneveld (1997)
First mention: 1207
Last mention: 1585
ENK code: ME-P003-031; ME-Z011-005

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