Beuvenlaan 5
NL-5711 PZ Someren (Noord-Brabant)

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Info: +31(0493) 470181
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Benedictinessen van het Heilig Sacrament, Foederationes ab Adoratione Perpetua
 

Johannahoeveweg 79
NL-6816 VG Arnhem (Noord-Brabant)

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Info: 026-4464886
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Allgemeine Informationen/General information
The first Cistercian monastery for women in the northern Lowlands dates from before 1200 and was located in Friesland. There were about twenty monasteries for women in our region during the following centuries, but during the Reformation at the end of the sixteenth century, almost all the monasteries disappeared. “Our Lady’s Monastery” in Roermond lasted the longest, until 1797, and the church there is still in use. The Cistercian monks were the first to be able to return to Holland. Koningshoeven Abbey, for example, was founded in 1881 near Tilburg. When the families of the monks visited the abbey, young women began asking if this kind of life also existed for them. The abbot during this period of time directed the young women to the Trappistine monastery “Our Lady of Peace” in Chimay, Belgium, and many entered there. When this group grew to about fifty sisters, the decision was made to build a monastery for women in Holland. On November 21, 1933, the building in Berkel-Enschot was begun. In the meantime, the young Dutch women were receiving their formation in the Cistercian life in Our Lady of Peace. In 1937, when the abbey buildings in Berkel-Enschot were completed, they returned to Holland. M. Gertrudis Demarrez, the abbess of Chimay, came with them as foundress and led our community for the next twenty years. July 16, 1937 was chosen as the foundation day because that is the day that the community first sang God’s praises here. Koningsoord became an autonomous abbey in September 1940. But time marches on. World War II was a time of anxiety and fear for us too. Especially painful was the deportation of our sisters Hegwigis and Theresia Lob who were taken via Westerbork to Auschwitz where they met a tragic death.

Guesthouse

The cost for your stay in our guesthouse is 23 euro per day. There is a special rate for school groups. If you want to make a reservation, you can call between 3:30 and 4:30 p.m. from tuesday untill friday. Our telephone number is 013-533-4901. Or you can send us an e-mail at: gastenhuis@koningsoord.org. We do not receive guests on the first Sunday of each month or on special feast days. These are Days of Recollection for our community.