Trappist monastery Maria Veen

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Former St. Marien monastery church
Former convent building

The Trappist monastery Maria Veen was from 1888 to 1952 a monastery of the Cistercians of the strict observance in Maria Veen , municipality Reken , in North Rhine-Westphalia .

history

Following the example of the Protestant workers 'colony Wilhelmsdorf of the pastor von Bodelschwingh , the parish administrator (from 1891 pastor) von Reken, Hermann Harrier (1842–1920), and the politician Max von Landsberg-Velen founded a Catholic workers' colony and won over the management through the mediation of the Diocese of Münster a group of 5 Trappists from the monasteries Oelenberg and Mariawald . The convent superior, Father Anselm Ellering, gave the monastery (from which a village later developed) the name Maria Veen (Latin: Maria in palude = "Maria im Moor"), Veen being a local variant of Venn = French fagnes (after the Ellring from Mariawald known landscape Hohes Venn ) has to apply. The Trappists fell for the diocese because they had already settled the Darfeld-Rosenthal monastery at the beginning of the century before they were expelled from Prussia in 1825 (including to Oelenberg).

Until 1909 the Trappists built a monastery building including a church, as well as the Benediktushof and the Bernardushof for the workers' colony that drained the moor. The monastery was elevated to a priory in 1901 , but was never able to acquire the property necessary for an abbey . In 1952 the Trappists therefore left the town and moved to the Engelszell Abbey in Austria. They were followed by the Mariannhill missionaries , who opened a successful grammar school in 1958 and oversee the monastery church (now owned by the diocese) as their own parish rectorate. The Benediktushof Maria Veen now belongs to the Josefs Society as a rehabilitation center . The elementary school, founded in 1911, has been called the Ellering School since 1983.

literature

  • Gereon Christoph Maria Becking: Cistercian monasteries in Europe, map collection. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-931836-44-4 , p. 54 A.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne. Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 567.
  • Peter Pfister : monastery leader of all Cistercian monasteries in the German-speaking area. 2nd edition, Kunstverlag Josef Fink, Lindenberg 1998, p. 362.

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Coordinates: 51 ° 50 '6 "  N , 7 ° 5' 49.9"  E