Cistercian Abbey Mariënkroon (Onsenoort)

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The Cistercian abbey Mariënkroon (Onsenoort) (also Onsenoort or Pont-Colbert ; Latin Abbatia Corona BMV ) was 1904-2016 a monastery of Cistercian in Nieuwkuijk (now Heusden ), province of North Brabant in the Netherlands . It is not to be confused with the Austrian monastery Marienkron (Mönchhof) .

history

The Cistercian Abbey of Pont-Colbert , which was expelled from France by the anti- monastery Third Republic , moved to the Onsenoort Fort west of 's-Hertogenbosch, bought by Abbot Bernard Maréchal, and founded the Pont-Colbert refuge there in 1904 , also known as the Sainte-Marie d'Onzenoort Monastery . In 1921 Maréchal, to whom a court had confirmed his ownership rights to the Versailles Abbey of Pont-Colbert, returned to Versailles with the French monks , while three Dutch monks stayed in Onsenoort, including the first Dutch novice, Franziskus Janssens , 1924–1947 (after the death of Maréchal) Abbot of Pont-Colbert, who was to become Abbot General of the order in 1927 . In 1928 Onsenoort was raised to an independent priory and contributed to the settlement of the Val d'Espoir and Spring Bank monasteries . In 1937 it joined the congregation of Bornem Monastery and adopted the name Mariënkroon , referring to the former Mariënkroon Monastery . From 1939 to 1951 the monastery was the destination and guardian of an annual pilgrimage. In 1957 it was elevated to the status of an abbey .

While there were still 82 monks under the first abbot (Joannes van Engelen, 1897–1976) in 1960, the convent shrank to 28 monks after the Second Vatican Council (1991) and there were no new members. Engelen's successor, Abbot Gerardus Hopstaken (1930–2016), therefore pursued a policy of progressive handover of the monastery to other hands, from 1994 through the Stichting Honsoirde and from 2002 through the Stichting Mariapoli Mariënkroon that founded by Chiara Lubich (1920–2008) Focolare Movement . The handover was completed in 2014, but the monastery continued to live in the abbot who lived there and in a brother of the same age. With the death of the abbot in 2016 (and the transfer of the last monk to a nursing home), the monastery can now finally be regarded as dissolved.

literature

  • Pascalis Vermeer, Gerardus Hopstaken: Abdij Mariënkroon van 1904 dead 1979 . Self-published, Nieuwkuijk 1979.
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 415.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Kees de Groot: Orthodoxy en beleving: Moving in de Rooms-Katholieke Kerk in Nederland . In: Religie & Samenleving , Vol. 1 (2006), pp. 151–173, here p. 161.