Summary Page:  Current House

Name:  Berne, Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands, B.M.V and S. Joann. Bapt.

Circary: Brabant

Diocese: 's-Hertogenbosch

Postal Address information

Electronic Address information

Gallery:  

• Click here to view photos of the new/restored abbey of Berne

• Click here to view photos relating to the original abbey of Berne

Map:  Click Here (Source:  © MapQuest  http://www.mapquest.com)

URLs:  

• http://www.abdijvanberne.nl 

• http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbaye_de_Berne 

Monasticon Praemonstratense (II, 274)

Elm Number:  120*

History:

Founded on August 3, 1134. After the time of religious and political disturbances, the house was vacated. It was again restored on February 2, 1857 as a daughter house of Marienweerd abbey in Noord-Brabant.

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* This listing (and the numbers, with a few adjustments after 1995) is based on the map contained in Kaspar Elm's Norbert von Xanten: Adliger, Ordensstifter, Kirchenfürst, Wienand Verlag, Köln, 1984, page 328-329.