Bottenbroich Abbey

The monastery Bottenbroich is a former site of the Cistercian order about 3 km northeast of Kerpen / Rhein -Erft in North Rhine -Westphalia.

History

The monastery Bottenbroich, was acquired in 1231 or 1253 under the third abbot of the abbey Hamborn, provost of Gottfried von Münster Eifel. Originally the church and the Court Bottenbroich belonged to the noble Premonstratensian monastery to Füssenich at Zuelpich. Propst Gottfried donated it then as a Cistercian monastery.

Through a miraculous image of Our Lady of Sorrows from 1420 it has developed into a center of Marian devotion. 1448 became the monastery in financial distress and was transferred to the monks of the monastery Kamp. The Cistercian monks from Kamp occupied it as a priory with a new men's Convention and brought it to new economic prosperity. With the support of the lords of inhibitors Bach, the Bottenbroich chose it as the home monastery and Burial, a new church was built and consecrated in 1484. 1777 the priory of the abbey Marienstatt was assumed and established a provost; the monks established themselves in Marienstatt and Mary forest.

In the course of secularization Bottenbroich monastery was abolished in 1802, but is still used as a parish church, the monastery church. 1951 had to give way to the brown coal mining Frechen the whole place Bottenbroich and with it the old monastery church. The Pietà is now in the parish church of the Assumption in Frechen- Grefrath.

In 2004, the now rehabilitated site to host the closing ceremony of the XX. World Youth Day 2005, selected and named in reference to the earlier town is home to Marian shrine Marienfeld.

In September 2006, in Marienfeld on today Frechen area at the site of a former monastery in the presence of monks from Bochum- Stiepelmann a sundial bearing the arms of the monastery Mori Moon, the mother monastery of Kamp, situated. Wegpfeile on the monument to remind pilgrims of the bonds with the two monasteries.