St. Andrew's Monastery

The monastery of St. Andreas in Altenbeken-Buke, East Westphalia, Paderborn district, was a monastery of Eastern Church character. It was founded in 1946 and existed with interruptions and changing convents until 2004. Today, the monastery building houses a restaurant.

The house was built in Altenbeken-Buke in the 19th century. The Stiens family ran a small restaurant there. Since the Stiens couple remained childless, they bequeathed the entire property in 1946 to twelve persecuted student monks who came to Germany from Ukraine after the Second World War. They belonged to the Ukrainian Catholic Church of Lviv and converted the house into a monastery. The apostle Andrew was chosen as its patron. The priest-monk Juvenalyj painted icons that can still be found in the house today. The only monk-priests of German descent were Father Joann and Father Antonij, who lived to be almost 100 years old and was later venerated as "the benevolent man of St. Andreas am Walde" in Altenbeken. As early as 1949, the monks gave up the house and emigrated to Canada. In 1953, Olivetan Fathers of the Byzantine rite lived in the monastery for a year.

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