Marienfeld Abbey

About

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; 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.

There have been four abbesses at the Abbey;

- Founding abbess, Sr. Maria Agnes Fabianek OCist (Cistercian Abbey of Mariastern)

- First abbess, Sr. Maria Benedikta Deninger OCist (May 14, 2000)

- Second abbess, Sr. Maria Hedwig Pauer OCist (July 11, 2014)

- Third abbess, Sr Maria Immaculata Maierhofer OCist (September 29, 2023)