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Luinjeberd, Women's Convent of the Teutonic Order: Steenkerk
Cemetery dating to 1891 in a small lane aside of the main street; the convent was slightly north of it Full Map on Geoplaza.
IDNR: L35
Parish: Luinjeberd
Municipality: Heerenveen
Patron Saint: Elisabeth
Alias: Steenkerk. Katryperconvent. (After 1525) Mariƫnbosch
Diocese: Utrecht
Diocese II: Leeuwarden
Province: Friesland
Province II:
Gender: f
Development: (a) Women's Convent of the Teutonic Order ca. 1281*, situated in Luinjeberd parish under the name of Steenkerk or Katryperconvent
(b) transfer to Nes before 1375
(c) refounded at Luinjeberd 1491*
(d) Cistercian Nuns 1510*
(e) transfer to new residence Mariƫnbosch in Luinjeberd parish 1525*
Filiation: branched from Nes (N05), dependent on Utrecht (U08)
End of monastic life: 1580*
Narrative Sources (CK): -
Narrative Sources (NS): -
Manuscripts (SV): -
Archives: Leeuwarden, Tresoar: 232-24
Literature: Woltjer (1962) 74; Mol (1991a) passim; Mol (1998a); Roemeling (2013) 130; 139; Holt (2015) 119-120
Third Order: -
Monasticon Batavum: II 146 s.v. Oldeboorn; I 179 s.v. Steenkerk; III 77 s.v. Lunjebert
MeMO: -
Van Deventer:
National monument:
Coordinates: 191/556?
Archaeological Monument:
Archaeological Status:
Archaeological Activities:
Archaeological Publication:
First mention: 1281
Last mention: 1580
ENK code: ME-V018-101; ME-Z02-024

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