Trappist Abbey Reichenburg
The Trappist abbey Reichenburg (also: Rajhenburg , Brestanica or Délivrance ) was 1881-2004 a monastery of Trappist monks in Brestanica, near Krsko in Slovenia .
history
When the French Trappist Abbey of Notre-Dame des Dombes was harassed by the Third Republic , which was hostile to the monastery , it looked for opportunities in exile and founded it in 1881 with the financial help of Oblate Gabriel Giraud (1836–1899) on the Save 40 km northwest of Zagreb on the Reichenburg (im At that time Austria-Hungary ) the monastery Notre-Dame de la Délivrance ("Mary Redemption"), which was elevated to an independent priory in 1885 and an abbey in 1891 . The area saw a real boost to civilization from the monks, who practiced agriculture and viticulture using the latest methods and tools, produced chocolate and liqueurs industrially and set up a printing shop.
The political instability of the region led the monastery to send monks to Algeria in 1934, where they began to build the Notre-Dame de l'Atlas monastery , which was officially founded in 1938 by the Aiguebelle monastery . In 1941 the German occupiers dissolved the Reichenburg monastery and turned it into a deportation camp. The monks who avoided the Mariastern monastery were able to return to Reichenburg after the Germans left, but were expelled again by the communists in 1947. They lived in isolation until 1963, but they met again from 1963 to 1965 in Radmirje (Frattmannsdorf), a district of Ljubno , but they parted again. With the death of the last monk in 2004, the monastery officially ceased to exist.
Superiors, priors and abbots
- Bernard Sirvain (1880-1885)
- Jean-Baptiste Epalle (1885-1910)
- Placide Epalle (1910-1940)
- Pius Novak (1940-1982)
literature
- Le frère Gabriel Giraud et son œuvre à Reichenburg (Autriche) 1836–1899 . Notre-Dame de la Délivrance 1909.
- Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 2. Protat, Mâcon 1939-1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995. Column 2431.
- Bernard Peugniez , Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Strasbourg, Editions du Signe, 2012, pp. 1110–1111.
Web links
- Photos of the abbey
- Reichenburg, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)
- Giraud, Gabriel, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)
- Sirvain, Bernard, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)
- Epalle, Jean-Baptiste, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)
- Epalle, Placide, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)
- Novak, Pius, in: Biographia Cisterciensis (Cistercian Biography)
- Slovenian museum page to the monastery
- Photo gallery of the castle today
Coordinates: 45 ° 59 ′ 21.3 " N , 15 ° 27 ′ 59.5" E