Ruins of Kloster Barthe

A former monastery in the middle of the forest. The Barthe nunnery once stood here. The walls are modeled with hedges. Panels refer to the individual buildings and history.

Barthe Monastery was a Premonstratensian monastery near Hesel in East Frisia, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It was built between 1170 and 1184 as a nunnery and was the order's first settlement in East Frisia. During the centuries of its existence, the monastery acquired vast lands, most of which consisted of wasteland. These were then laboriously cultivated. After the Reformation, the convent gradually dissolved until the beginning of the 17th century.In contrast to the Cistercian monastery Ihlow, Barthe was a rather average East Frisian convent, which is why, alongside Ihlow, it was the most intensively researched. Between 1988 and 1992, excavations took place at Barthe Monastery, which revealed the floor plans of individual buildings.

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