Postel Abbey

Postel Abbey is a Premonstratensian abbey in the Belgian municipality of Mol in the province of Antwerp. In 1138 Premonstratensian canons from Floreffe Abbey based the monastery at Postel as a structured priory. In 1613 Postel have become impartial of Floreffe and in 1618 was raised to the popularity of abbey. In 1797, the abbey turned into closed, and the canons expelled, within the course of the French Revolution, when French troops invaded the Austrian Netherlands.

In 1847, the community right here was re-installed, and then the abbey homes were restored in numerous stages. From 1943, until the give up of World War II, Herman Van Breda concealed a part of the manuscripts of Edmund Husserl inside the abbey. The abbey church became constructed within the Rhineland Romanesque style and dates supposedly from the end of the 12th century. The church has due to the fact been rebuilt several instances, as a result of which the building indicates some characteristics of Gothic and Baroque patterns. The abbey turned into surrounded through partitions, and in part surrounded by ditches.