Four Cistercian monks from Heiligenkreuz Monastery near Vienna have reopened Neuzelle Monastery in Brandenburg which was taken over by the Prussian Kingdom in 1817.
Now, in the eastern German diocese of Görlitz, the Neuzelle monastery buildings have been restored for €50m by the EU and the state of Brandenburg. Neuzelle is the northernmost example of southern German and Bohemian baroque in Europe. Heiligenkreuz, founded in 1133, is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world.
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