Trappist Abbey of Tilburg

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Konigshoeven Abbey, Tilburg

The Trappist Abbey Tilburg , also: Abtei Koningshoeven (Latin: Abbatia Beatae Mariae de Villa Regia ; Dutch: Abdij OLV van Konigshoeven ) is a Dutch monastery in Berkel-Enschot (today: Tilburg , Diocese of 's-Hertogenbosch ).

history

The French monastery Mont des Cats founded in 1881 (originally as a refuge from the monastery policy of the Third Republic ), the monastery of Our Lady of Koningshoeven ( "King homestead", hall name, Latin name: Beata Maria de Villa Regina ), the 1883 Priorat and 1891 to Abbey was raised. For his livelihood, the monastery ran a brewery (initiated by a Bavarian monk) from 1884, which still produces the Trappist beer La Trappe today. Since 1997 the production has been carried out (under the supervision of the abbey) by the Dutch brewery Bavaria . The monks have switched to bakery and chocolate making.

Superiors, priors and abbots

Abbot Sébastien Wyart (r. 1880–1881)
  • Sébastien Wyart (1880–1881)
  • Jérôme Parent (1881)
  • Nivard Schweykart (1881–1890)
  • Willibrord Verbruggen (1891–1909)
  • Simon Dubuisson (1909-1945)
  • Willibrord van Dijk (1945–1966)
  • Cyprien van den Bogaard (1966–1989)
  • Korneel Vermeiren (1990-2005)
  • Bernardus Peeters (2005-)

Foundations

Koningshoeven monks as victims of National Socialism

On August 2, 1942, three monks from the abbey were arrested by the Gestapo . They were the brothers Ignatius (George) Löb (* 1909, entry into the order 1926, solemn profession 1931, ordination 1936, then until 1939 in the Bonnecombe monastery ), Linus (Rob) Löb (* 1910, first Capuchin , 1928 entry into the order of the Trappists , Solemn profession 1937, lay brother ) and Nivardus (Ernst) Löb (* 1913). Together with their two sisters from the Trappist Abbey of Koningsoord , they were taken to the Westerbork concentration camp . They died in Poland in 1942 or 1943. A sixth member of the Löb family, also a nun in Koningsoord, was only arrested in 1943 and died in the monastery in 1944.

The six religious were the children of Ludwig Löb (* 1881 in Euskirchen ; † 1935), who had converted from Judaism to Catholicism, and his Dutch wife Jenny van Gelder (1879-1938), who was also of Jewish descent. One of the motives for the children's entry into the order was the wish to contribute to the conversion of all Jews through prayer . To avoid arrest by fleeing, which would have been possible, the siblings refused to spare the monasteries the threatened reprisals. The priests Ignatius and Nivardus are known to have been shot for offering the sacrament of penance . Thanks to the testimony of the surviving youngest sister, Paula van Broekhoven (1918–2004), a comprehensive documentation of the tragedy and its family history was made 70 years later.

literature

  • Cistercian lectionarium . Tilburg, Abdij OL Vrouw van Koningshoeven, 1951.
  • PWFM Hamans, Getuigen voor Christ. Rooms-kathieke bloedgetuigen uit Nederland in de twintigste eeuw . Nationale Raad voor Liturgie, Den Bosch 2008.
    • (English) Paul Hamans, Edith Stein and Companions. On the Way to Auschwitz , Ignatius Press, San Francisco 2010.
  • Hans Leeuwenkamp, ​​Gemma Smeets: Koningshoeven, aangenaam. Een abdij stelt zich voor . Berkel-Enschot, Abdij Koningshoeven, 1994 (16 pages).
  • Pieter Oussoren and Theo van Willigenburg: Goudzoekers. Portraits from Abdij Koningshoeven . Vught, Skandalon, 2006 (237 pages).
  • Bernard Peugniez , Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne , Strasbourg: Editions du Signe, 2012, p. 414.
  • Peter Steffen and Hans Evers, Scheuren in het kleed. Het joods-kathieke gezin Löb 1881–1945 , Valkhof Pers, Nijmegen 2009.
    • (English) Peter Steffen and Hans Evers, Can a Seamless Garment Be Truly Torn? Questions Surrounding the Jewish-Catholic Löb Family, 1881-1945 , Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minnesota, 2014.

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