Coldinne

Title

Coldinne

Also Known As

Koldinne, Konvent zur Wahren Minne, ter Waeren Minne, Vera Charitas

Dates

Founded mid-13th c.; Augustinian from ca. 1450; dissolved ca. 1560

Dedication

Anne?, Mary

Affiliation

Dokkum

Medieval Diocese

Bremen

Circary

Frisia

History

Coldinne was founded by the mid-13th century. In 1441, it was home to a prioress and 45 sisters. It was never a wealthy community.

In 1450, the house became an Augustinian one affiliated with Marienkamp, and continued to exist until ca. 1560.

Status

Women's community

Archival Sources

No archival sources from the community's Premonstratensian period survive.

Bibliography

Heinze, Axel. “Coldinne.” In Niedersächsisches Klosterbuch. Verzeichnis der Klöster, Stifte, Kommenden und Beginenhäuser in Niedersachsen und Bremen von den Anfängen bis 1810, edited by Josef Dolle and Dennis Knochenhauer, 1:315–17. Studien zur Kölner Kirchengeschichte 37. Bielefeld: Verlag für Regionalgeschichte, 2012.

Heinze, Axel, and Lies Herdes. “Erinnerung an die große Zeit der Klöster : das Oster Coldinner Grashaus gehörte zur Niederlassung der Prämonstratenser Chorfrauen.” Unser Ostfriesland, 1986.

Ippen, Ella. “Kloster Coldinne und seine Grashäuser.” Heim und Herd (Norden) 11/12 (1987).

Raveling, Jakob. “Das verschollene Kloster im Moor. Die Kulturmission des Klosters Coldinne.” Unser Ostfriesland. Beilage der Ostfriesen-Zeitung 44 (1950).

Reimers, Heinrich. “Erinnerungen an Kloster Koldinne.” Heim und Herd: Beilage zum Ostfriesischen Kurier, December 30, 1937.

Schoolmann, Heinrich. “Das Konvent zur wahren Minne: aus der Geschichte der Klosters Coldinne.” Unser Ostfriesland 6 (1990).

Image Credit

A memorial stone on the site of the former monastery. 2012. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Frisia

Citation

“Coldinne,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/148.

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