Deventer

Title

Deventer

Also Known As

Bergkerk, Clostar

Dates

Founded 1206; dissolved 1580

Dedication

Nicholas

Affiliation

Varlar

Medieval Diocese

Utrecht

Circary

Frisia

History

A parish church with priory, dependent on the Premonstratensian abbey of Varlar. The church was built ca. 1190-ca. 1210, and today still contains wall paintings dating to the early 13th century.

Following the Reformation, it became a Dutch Reformed church, and today is used as a secularised event space.

Heads of Community

Priors

Theodoricus, fl. 1350
Albertus Cuer, fl. 1392
Matthaeus, fl. 1436
Roelof Strick, fl. 1460
Jan I van Graes, 1494-1498
Gelmar von Beckum, fl. 1515
Jan II van Remen, 1521-1527
Johannes Enckelsen (or von Kückelsheim?), fl. ca. 1550
Hermann van den Clooster, ?-1579
Wolter van Heuven, ?-1587
Henricus van den Capellen, 1587
Everardus Voss, 1587-?

Status

Priory

Archival Sources

Deventer, Collectie Overijssel

90601:4 (1204)

Leiden, Leiden University Library

COLLBN Port 323 N 287 (1792)

Bibliography

Frese, Werner. “Varlar und sein Priorat Deventer.” In Internationale netwerken in een periode van transformatie, edited by Herman Janssens and C.M. Hogenstijn, 17–33. Bijdragen van de contactdag 19. Averbode: s.n., 2009.

———. “Varlar und sein Priorat Deventer.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 86, no. 1/4 (2010): 46–66.

Rijn, Elselien van. “Middeleeuwse muurschilderingen in de Bergkerk in Deventer.” Analecta Praemonstratensia 90, no. 1/4 (2014): 268–74.

Image Credit

The Bergkerk, Deventer, 2007. Wikimedia.

Files

Collection

Frisia

Citation

“Deventer,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/296.

Geolocation