Maria-Rickenbach

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Maria-Rickenbach is a Benedictine convent above the village of Niederrickenbach in the center of Switzerland in the canton of Nidwalden that is accessible only by cable car.

The convent was established after a 1528 painting of the Madonna was placed hollow maple tree. Subsequently unable to remove the painting the church and nunnery were established around the tree which is now a shrine. The convent is often associated with Engelberg Abbey.

Members of the nunnery founded the Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration which has its motherhouse in Clyde, Missouri in Nodaway County, Missouri.