Marienkron Monastery (Mönchhof)

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Monastery Marienkron is a Cistercian - Abbey in Mönchhof in Burgenland in Austria, which is also the Kneipp and relaxation Marienkron had founded. Its operator has been the Vinzenz Group since 2012 , which looks after several Christian hospitals in Austria.

history

After the Second World War and the global expansion of communism , the then abbot Karl Braunstorfer of the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz endeavored to build a place of prayer on the border with the Iron Curtain in Austria. The Heiligenkreuz convent chapter agreed to make land available in the Mönchhof monastery parish in Burgenland. Nuns from the Bavarian monastery Seligenthal agreed to dare to start a new establishment in the spirit of Braunstorfer and in 1955 six nuns arrived. In 1959 Marienkron became an independent priory and in 1991 it was elevated to an abbey .

Avenue on the grounds of the abbey

Abbesses

Marienkron Kneipp and relaxation center

In 1968 the monastery was expanded to include a Kneipp and relaxation center . In the middle of a 15 hectare park is a four-star hotel with 144 rooms, which has been managed by the Vinzenz Group since 2009 .

literature

  • Rosaria Golsch , Mirjam Dinkelbach : Marienkron. Development history of the Cistercian abbey 1953–1956 . In: Office of the Burgenland Provincial Government (ed.): 800 years of the Cistercians in the Pannonian region. Office of the Provincial Government of Burgenland, Eisenstadt 1996, pp. 129–139.
  • Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd Edition. Éditions du Signe, Strasbourg 1998, ISBN 2-87718-596-6 , p. 530.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ According to the biography of Ancilla Betting OCist, administrator of Marienkron Monastery. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 58 ″  N , 16 ° 56 ′ 12 ″  E