St. Willibrord's Abbey

St. Willibrord's Abbey (Dutch: Sint-Willibrordsabdij) at Doetinchem in Gelderland is the most recently established Benedictine monastery in the Netherlands.

The monastery, dedicated to Saint Willibrord, was founded immediately after World War II by the over-populated Oosterhout Abbey.

As building materials were scarce immediately after the war, the monastery was largely built out of old paving stones, and the roofs were constructed without wood: the tiles sit directly on concrete beams.

Cornelius Tholens, abbot from 1954 to 1972, was a founder of the Dialogue Interreligieux Monastique, the European arm of the DIMMID which held its annual meeting here in 2019.

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