Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)

Bundesrepublik Deutschland (BRD)

24th August 1956 

800th anniversary of the Maria Laach Abbey.

Maria Laach Abbey (in German: Abtei Maria Laach, in Latin: Abbatia Maria Lacensis or Abbatia Maria ad Lacum) is a Benedictine abbey situated on the southwestern shore of the Laacher See (Lake Laach), near Andernach, in the Eifel region of the Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. It is a member of the Beuronese Congregation within the Benedictine Confederation. The abbey was known for nearly 770 years as "Abtei Laach" ("Abbatia Lacensis" or "Laach Abbey", meaning the "Lake Abbey") until 1862 when the Jesuits added the name "Maria". The Maria Laach Abbey has been at the center of a controversy over its relations with the Nazi regime between 1933 and 1945. This influential monastery was already known as a center for right-wing Catholicism during the Weimar Republic. Its leaders enthusiastically greeted the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. The Abbot, Ildefons Herwegen, and many others at Maria Laach embraced Hitler's regime and even chided other Catholics for failing to work with the new state. "Blood, soil and fate are the appropriate expressions for the fundamental powers of the time," Herwegen avowed. The rise of the Third Reich was part of the workings and designs of God. Hitler's promise to build Germany on a Christian foundation on March 21, 1933 led several monks to hang a picture of Hitler in the abbey.

Michel Catalogue number: 238; catalogue value €2.80 ($4.00 approx.)

Stamp Number DE 747
Yvert et Tellier DE 114
Stanley Gibbons DE 1164
AFA number DE 1201

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1956, 24. Aug. 800 Jahre Abteikirche Maria Laach.