- Source: Marienfeld Abbey (Austria)
Marienfeld Abbey is an Austrian Cistercian nunnery in Marienfeld, Wullersdorf, eight kilometres north of Hollabrunn. It was founded by Hans Hermann Groër as a sister house of Mariastern Abbey.
Its construction began in 1974 and it was opened on 14 November 1982 by Franz König, then Archbishop of Vienna; the nunnery was declared as independent in 1991.
By 2014, the nunnery had 18 sisters; they made some income through their vestment workshop and used their vegetable and fruit garden for self-sufficiency.
Abbesses
There have been four abbesses at the Abbey;
Founding abbess, Sr. Maria Agnes Fabianek OCist (Cistercian Abbey of Mariastern)
First abbess, Sr. Maria Benedikta Deninger OCist (May 14, 2000)
Second abbess, Sr. Maria Hedwig Pauer OCist (July 11, 2014)
Third abbess, Sr Maria Immaculata Maierhofer OCist (September 29, 2023)
References
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- Marienfeld Abbey (Austria)
- List of Christian monasteries in Austria
- Mariastern Abbey, Hohenweiler
- Hans Hermann Groër
- List of Carthusian monasteries
- Black Sea Germans
- Pope Benedict XVI
- Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
- List of pastoral visits of Pope Benedict XVI
