Hocht Abbey
| Hocht Abbey | |
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 Abbey portal |
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| location |
 Belgium
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| Coordinates: | 50 ° 53 '53 " N , 5 ° 41' 8" E |
| founding year | 1180 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1217 |
| Mother monastery | Eberbach Monastery |
| Primary Abbey | Clairvaux Monastery |
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Daughter monasteries |
Val-Dieu Monastery (1216) |
The Abbey Hocht is a former Cistercian monastery and is located in the Belgian municipality Lanaken -Neerhaaren, not far from the city limits of Maastricht . The name "Hocht" is the former name of County Loon , in which the monastery was founded.
history
Hocht Abbey was founded in 1180 by Theodorus, the landlord of the neighboring Pietersheim , to send a group of monks to Hocht on request from the abbot of Eberbach monastery in the Rheingau, a subsidiary abbey of Clairvaux monastery in Luxembourg. Theodorus granted the monks meal rights, fishing rights and customs rights on the river Maas, only a few hundred meters away .
The Cistercian monks only stayed in Hocht for a few decades and founded the Val-Dieu monastery near Aubel during this time (1216) . In 1217 the monastery was taken over by the Cistercian nuns from the Salvatorberg in Aachen .
The abbey was occupied several times by foreign troops, including during the siege of Maastricht in 1748 by the general Hermann Moritz von Sachsen , who was in the service of the French king .
After the French Revolution , all of the abbey's goods were secularized. The property came into the possession of the Dumonceau and van Langendonck families. In the course of the twentieth century, valuable parts of the interior furnishings and decoration gave way to the tastes of the various owners. Hocht Castle, the courtyard and the land are privately owned and not open to the public.
