Second Foundation
In 1922 the monastery was re-founded by the settlement here of German Cistercian monks from the former monastery of Mariastern in the present Bosnia. The church was re-built under Abbot Vitus Recke (abbot from 1937 to 1959), and completed in 1962, and contains a famous organ by Johannes Klais.
The new abbey founded the Abbey of the Holy Cross, Itaporanga near São Paulo in Brazil, in 1936.
The present community (as of 2006) consists of 14 monks. The abbey has a museum, a book - and art shop, a café, a guesthouse and retreat-house and a fishery.
The present abbot (as of 2006) is Bruno Fromme, in post since 1991.
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