Palmar
Title
Palmar
Also Known As
Palla, Pallamarum, Pallamer, Pallemar, Palma, Palmaer, Palmarum, Poel, Poll, Porta Stae. Mariae
Dates
Founded ca. 1204; dissolved 1447
Dedication
Mary
Affiliation
Medieval Diocese
Circary
History
Palmar was a Premonstratensian double house founded ca. 1204. It was a wealthy monastery. The community was dissolved in 1447 because the site was being lost to coastal erosion. The former members of the house moved to either Dokkum or Wittewierum.
The last ruins of Palmar sank into the sea ca. 1509. The former monastic complex is now entirely submerged in the Dollart estuary.
The last ruins of Palmar sank into the sea ca. 1509. The former monastic complex is now entirely submerged in the Dollart estuary.
Heads of Community
Priors
Folkerd, fl. 1440
Folkerd, fl. 1440
Reference
Bibliography
Aits, August Anton. “Kloster Palmar: Nonnenstift des Prämonstratenser-Ordens im Dollargebiet.” Der Deichwart: Beilage der Zeitung Rheiderland, 1959, 141.
Dolle, Josef. “Palmar.” In Niedersächsisches Klosterbuch. Verzeichnis der Klöster, Stifte, Kommenden und Beginenhäuser in Niedersachsen und Bremen von den Anfängen bis 1810, edited by Dennis Knochenhauer and Josef Dolle, 3:1246. Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Historische Landesforschung der Universität Göttingen 56. Bielefeld: Verl. für Regionalgeschichte, 2012.
Kirchhoff, Joost. “Im Dollart versunken: Kloster Palmar.” Rheiderland-Echo 3, no. 3 (1986).
Koch, Harm-Jürgen. “Palmar - das im Dollart versunkene Kloster: das Prämonstratenserkloster musste im Jahre 1447 aufgegeben werden.” Unser Ostfriesland 11 (2007).
Schoolmann, Hinrich. “Kloster Palmar - porta major: vom Dollart verschlungen.” Unser Ostfriesland, 1955.
———. “Vom Dollart verschlungen: Kloster Palmar - Porta major.” Der Deichwart: Beilage der Zeitung Rheiderland, 1953, 261.
Suur, Hemmo. “Palmar.” In Geschichte der ehemaligen Klöster in der Provinz Ostfriesland, 70–72. Emden, 1838. https://archive.org/details/geschichtedereh00suurgoog/page/n110/mode/1up.
Files
Collection
Citation
“Palmar,” A Premonstratensian Atlas, accessed October 16, 2026, https://yvonneseale.org/atlas/items/show/85.