Cistercian abbey of Sostrup

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The Sostrup Monastery (since 1998 Sostrup Abbey ) was a Cistercian monastery that existed from 1960 to 2013 on the grounds of Sostrup Castle near Gjerrild, Norddjurs Kommune , Denmark .

history

In 1920 the Czech monastery Porta Coeli sent five nuns to found a daughter monastery in Allerslev near Roskilde, Denmark . In 1961, the sisters moved into the at Grenaa in Jutland located castle Sostrup around and called their monastery "Maria Hjerte" ( "to the heart of Mary"), after the name of the Bohemian Congregation of the Most Pure Heart of Mary ( Congregatio Purissimi Cordis BMV ), which it belonged . A hotel was operated in the main building of the castle, which was also used as the monastery guest house, while the nuns lived in an outbuilding. The monastery chapel was located in the property's former stable.

From 1988 onwards, the new prioress , who came from a wealthy German-Dutch entrepreneurial family, led to a realignment of monastic life. She brought a group of young girls and women, many of them from Germany, to the monastery to reform the aging community. In 1990 there were first complaints about her leadership style with the Bishop of Copenhagen , whereupon this, the Jesuit Hans Ludvig Martensen , visited the monastery, but could not find a solution. With the support of her family, among other things, the superior commissioned a spacious new monastery to be built a few hundred meters south of the castle. In May 1992, the convent moved from the castle's administrator's house, which had been inhabited up to that point, to the modern and comfortably furnished new building. The monastery worked with the Neocatechumenal Way , which sent women from all over the world to Denmark. Sostrup Monastery was elevated to an abbey on October 3, 1998 . In 2000 16 sisters lived in Maria Hjerte Abbedi . After renewed complaints to the Copenhagen Bishop Czeslaw Kozon , the General Administration of the Order made a visit in 2001 , but this had no consequences. In the following years, the abbey founded the Sacred Heart Monastery in Düsseldorf (2004) and the Santísima Trinidad monastery in Pachacútec, Ventanilla district , in the Peruvian diocese of Callao (2008) as subsidiary monasteries .

Radio reports on a roman à clef -scale commitment book Inte längre nunna ( "No longer nun", 2009) the beaten Swedish nun Helene Hägglund, who lived from 1988 to 2000 in Sostrup and had been a close confidant of the Head, caused a stir in the Danish public and sparked a police investigation. The apostolic visitation initiated by the Danish local church by the Vatican religious congregation , on whose behalf the English auxiliary bishop William Kenney and the Swedish abbess Karin Adolfsson OSsS visited the monastery, led to the abbess being deposed in 2011, who however did not accept her and continued the monastery ruled. In 2013 the monastery and its subsidiary monasteries were abolished and in 2014 the Bohemian Cistercian Congregation was dissolved (with the remaining monasteries of Marienthal and Marienstern being directly subordinate to the Abbot General of the order). Sister Jordana Schmidt , who converted to the Dominican Sisters of Bethanien and who fled the monastery two weeks before her perpetual religious vows, describes her traumatic experiences as a Cistercian in Sostrup between 1990 and 1994 , also encoded in her autobiographical book to give away duck (2015).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allerslev. In: Cistercienser Chronik 34 (1922), pp. 88-90.
  2. ↑ Paul Josef Cardinal Cordes : Three Popes. My life. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-80169-3 , p. 299.
  3. ↑ Entry of the Sacred Heart Monastery on Orden online (status: 2010).
  4. ↑ a b c Hildegard Willer: Death in the monastery garden. In Publik-Forum 15/2010, October 13, 2010, p. 39.
  5. ↑ Cistercian Sisters, O. CIST, in the Herz Jesu Kloster in Düsseldorf. Self-portrayal in: "Lord, to whom should we go?" Published by the Working Group of Religious Women in the Archdiocese of Cologne on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the Archbishop of Cologne Joachim Cardinal Meisner, Cologne 2013, p. 120 (online) .
  6. ↑ Helene Hägglund: Inte Längre nunna. Cordia, Stockholm 2009 (Swedish); Danish: Nun tur / retur. Magt og afmagt bag klostermurene (“Once a nun there and back. Power and powerlessness behind the monastery walls”). Gyldendal, Copenhagen 2009.
  7. ↑ Ingrid Raagaard, Alexander Schuller: Shackles, Beatings and Isolation. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . June 10, 2010, accessed November 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Investigation against abbess in Denmark stopped. In: Die Tagespost , June 26, 2010, accessed on November 29, 2019.
  9. ↑ Nanna Schelde: Dansk monastery leather Afsat af Vatikanet. In: Kristeligt Dagblad , June 14, 2011, accessed on November 28, 2019 (Danish).
  10. ↑ Jordana Schmidt: Giving away duck. Walking barefoot to myself. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-62936-5 , p. 174.
  11. ↑ Jordana Schmidt: Giving away duck. Walking barefoot to myself. Hamburg 2015, pp. 153–175.

literature

  • Bendt B. Scavenius: Sostrup Slot 1960 - 2000: middelalder og nutid på samme sted , Grenaa 2000
  • Bernard Peugniez : Le Guide Routier de l'Europe Cistercienne . Editions du Signe, Strasbourg 2012, p. 1011.

gallery

  • Sostrup Castle

  • The new monastery

  • Outside altar at Sostrup Castle

Web links

Coordinates: 56 ° 29 ′ 45.2 ″  N , 10 ° 49 ′ 25.1 ″  E