The Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, founded in 1928, was an American monastery of monks of the Cistercian Order of the Ancient, or Common, Observance in Wisconsin. These form a separate branch of the Order from the Cistercian monks of the Strict Observance, most commonly known as Trappists. This abbey was the first monastery of the Order to be established in the United States. The community was closed in 2011.
In the years following World War I, at the instigation of the Abbot General of the Order, the project was conceived of establishing the first monastery of the Order in the United States. While originally envisioned as a foundation of Wettingen-Mehrerau Abbey in Austria, eventually monks from several Cistercian monasteries in Austria, Holland and Switzerland volunteered to undertake the endeavor.
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