Marienfeld Monastery (Austria)

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Marienfeld Monastery

Marienfeld Abbey (lat. Abbatia Sanctae Mariae in Campo ) is a Cistercian - Abbey of Mehrerauer Congregation on a small hill and about one kilometer southwest of the village Maria Roggendorf in the market town Wullersdorf in Lower Austria .

history

Grave of Hans Hermann Cardinal Groër

The then pilgrimage director of Maria Roggendorf and later Archbishop of Vienna, Hans Hermann Groër OSB , established the Marienfeld Monastery near Hollabrunn in 1974 with the support of the Mariastern-Gwiggen Abbey , which sent the first eight sisters to Marienfeld as a mother monastery. On May 12, 1974, the then Abbot General of the Cistercian Order, Dr. Sighard Kleiner OC is the foundation cross that was erected on the building site on May 28th. The foundation stone was laid in September 1975. The then Archbishop of Vienna, Franz Cardinal König , consecrated itChurch and monastery on November 14, 1982 and the eight founding sisters from Mariastern-Gwiggen took up life in Marienfeld. In front of the monastery is the grave of the founder Hans Hermann Cardinal Groër, who died in 2003 .

architecture

Melk Abbey provided the construction site, a four- hectare area in an open field a little southwest of Maria Roggendorf . In 1979 it was planted with a square windbreak made of trees. The monastery was built from 1976 to 1982 according to plans by the architect Walter Hildebrand from Vienna. The monastery is ring-shaped with a round inner courtyard and has two wings to the west and east. The eastern wing is the monastery church.

Convention

Marienfeld became a dependent priory of the Mariastern-Gwiggen Abbey in 1982 and an independent conventual priory in 1991 and was thus able to accept novices independently . On March 29, 2000, the monastery was elevated to an abbey. The founding Prioress , Sr. Benedicta Deninger OCist when it became abbess benediziert . On May 21, 2014, Sr. Maria Hedwig Pauer was elected second abbess of Marienfeld. Like the mother monastery, the abbey belongs to the Mehrerau congregation of the Cistercians . The main source of income for the sisters is the parament workshop . In addition, the nuns work in looking after guests, growing vegetables and fruit and doing the church laundry for some parishes in the area. The convent now consists of eighteen sisters.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Marienfeld Monastery is: Square with a red Johanneskreuz ; 1 in green a gold star (= reference to the Mariastern-Gwiggen Abbey ); 2 and 3 front four times obliquely left divided by gold and blue, rear silver without image (= coat of arms of the extinct noble family of the Ruckhendorff , former owners of the Ruckhendorff rule ); 4 in green a golden five-petalled rose.

Web links

Commons : Marienfeld Monastery (Austria)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Marienfeld (Cistercian Sisters ) ORDER online
  2. ↑ Marienfeld Monastery - Our Life (accessed April 20, 2018).

Coordinates: 48 ° 36 '49.1 "  N , 16 ° 7' 23.4"  E