Mehrerauer Congregation
The Mehrerau Congregation (Latin Congregatio Augiensis ) is a voluntary worldwide association, a congregation of several independent monasteries (with three priories ) of the Cistercian Order under the leadership of a mother monastery , the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau . A forerunner of the Mehrerau Congregation was the Upper German Cistercian Congregation .
history
The monastery, located in Mehrerau near Bregenz , Austria , was settled by the monks of the Wettingen monastery who were expelled from Switzerland .
The Mehrerau Congregation came into being in 1888, when the Wettingen-Mehrerau and Marienstatt Abbeys , their subsidiary monasteries and the Swiss women's monasteries, which were subordinate to Wettingen-Mehrerau, separated from the Austrian Cistercian Congregation and formed their own congregation.
Abbot Pres
Abbot Preses of the Congregation is always the Abbot of the Territorial Abbey of Wettingen-Mehrerau, since 2018 Abbot Vinzenz Wohlwend OCist. A proposal to abandon this regulation in favor of an elected Abbot President was rejected almost unanimously at the 2006 Congregational Chapter. As the abbot of a territorial abbey ( Abbatia territorialis ), the ruling abbot von Mehrerau is a full member of the Austrian Bishops' Conference . The abbot publishes the order magazine Cistercienser Chronik .
Monasteries
Six men's and thirteen women's abbeys are associated in the congregation.
Germany
- Lichtenthal Abbey , Baden-Baden
- Marienstatt Abbey , Streithausen / Westerwald
- Himmerod Abbey , Großlittgen was abolished on December 31, 2017 by resolution of the congregational chapter
- Oberschönenfeld Abbey , Gessertshausen
- St. Josef Abbey , Thyrnau
- Waldsassen Abbey , Waldsassen
Italy
Croatia
Austria
Switzerland
- Mariazell-Wurmsbach Abbey , Bolligen
- Eschenbach Abbey , Eschenbach LU
- Magerau Abbey , Freiburg im Üechtland
- Frauenthal Abbey , Hagendorn in Cham in the canton of Zug .
- Hauterive Abbey , Posieux
- Magdenau Abbey , Degersheim- Wolfertswil
Slovenia
United States
- Spring Bank Abbey , Sparta , Wisconsin - last existed as a priory and was repealed by resolution of the congregational chapter on October 5, 2011.
Priories
- Birnau Priory (Prioratus simplex), Uhldingen-Mühlhofen , Germany, belongs to the Wettingen-Mehrerau Territorial Abbey
- Lower Maize Priory (Maia Bassa), Merano , Italy, belongs to the Stams Abbey
- Valley of Our Lady Priory , Prairie du Sac , Wisconsin , USA
See also
To the history:
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mehrerau Congregation in the portal orden-online.de, accessed on December 16, 2017.
- ^ The Mariengarten Abbey , accessed on December 16, 2017.
literature
- The Cistercian Congregation of Mehrerau. Spiritual foundations - constitutions - history - monasteries . Edited on behalf of the Congregational Chapter of the Cistercian Abbey of Mehrerau. Self-published, Bregenz [1995], ISBN 3-85298-014-3 .