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;[1] 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.[2] AbbessesThere have been four abbesses at the Abbey;[1]
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