Trappist Abbey Diepenveen
The Trappist Abbey Diepenveen (also: Abtei Sion ; Latin Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Sion ) is a former Dutch monastery in Diepenveen, Deventer , Overijssel province , diocese of Utrecht, which existed from 1883 to 2015 .
history
Monks from the Trappist Abbey of Achel founded the monastery of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus on the Frieswijk estate in Deventer in 1883 . It was relocated to Diepenveen, north of Deventer, in 1890 and was named Our Lady of Sion in 1895 ( raised to the status of an abbey in 1936 ). The monastery, which was once built for 120 monks, became too big for the convent, which had shrunk to a dozen in 2015, and a new start was decided on the island of Schiermonnikoog (whose name means "island of the gray monks" and where the monastery Klaarkamp once had a grangie ). The newly built monastery there opened in 2019. The story of the move is told in the documentary L'île des moines (The Monks' Island) by Anne Christine Girardot (* 1970).
Superiors and abbots
- Benedictus-Maria van den Berg (1891-1894)
- Placidus Verheggen (1894–1898)
- Jacobus Fokkes (1898–1934)
- Gabriel van de Moosdijk, 1886–1981 (1934–1952, then Abbot of Achel)
- Malachias Muller (1952–1975)
- Adolphus van der Zeijden (1975–1988)
- Johannes Henselmans (1988–1992)
- Romero Hakvoort (1992-1993)
- Alberic Bruschke (1999-)
literature
- Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Éditions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 433.
Web links
- Website of the Sion Abbey
- Website of the Schiermonnikoog monastery
- Page Diepenveen in the Encyclopaedia Cisterciensia
- Diepenveen page on the Trappist homepage
Coordinates: 52 ° 18 ′ 30 " N , 6 ° 11 ′ 36.7" E