Marienfeld Abbey (Austria)

Marienfeld Abbey is a

Cistercian The Cistercians, () officially the Order of Cistercians ( la, (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint ...

nunnery in Marienfeld,

Wullersdorf Wullersdorf is a town in the district of Hollabrunn in Lower Austria, Austria. Geography Wullersdorf lies in the Weinviertel The ("wine quarter") or ("area below the ") is located in the northeast of Lower Austria. In the east, the border ...

, eight kilometres north of Hollabrunn. It was founded by

Hans Hermann Groër Hans Hermann Wilhelm Groër OSB (13 October 1919 – 24 March 2003) was an Austrian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995, and became a cardinal in 1988. Pope John Paul II replaced him as arc ...

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. Cistercian nunneries in Austria Monasteries in Lower Austria {{Austria-struct-stub