Abbey Manufacture

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The Abbey of the Holy Cross in Herstelle , a district of Beverungen in the Höxter district, is a Benedictine abbey in East Westphalia. It lies on the territory of the Archdiocese of Paderborn and belongs to the Beuron congregation .

Abbey Herstelle seen from the Weser valley

history

Monastery church

The Abbey of the Holy Cross stands on the site of the former parsonage of Herstelle, which the Paderborn prince-bishop Dietrich Adolf von der Recke left to the Minorite brothers , who had just been expelled from Höxter , after the pastor's death in 1657 . These took over parish and school service and in 1734 also built the monastery church that still exists today. The 185-step monastery staircase up to the castle hill and monastery, which was used for the school and church path, has also been preserved from this time. The Minorite monastery was abandoned in 1824 in the course of secularization and subsequently fell into increasingly disrepair.

In 1899, the forerunner of today's abbey was established in the former Minorite monastery as a subpriorate of the Benedictine Abbey of Perpetual Adoration in Peppingen, Luxembourg . In addition to the monastery church and the residential buildings, the convent acquired a. also the old cemetery of the community in Herstelle, which is now in the enclosure of the monastery. On March 21, 1924, Pope Pius XI issued a brief . elevation to the abbey and incorporation into the Beuron congregation .

In 1935 Konrad Adenauer found refuge in the abbey for a short time when he had to flee from the National Socialists.

Christine Brückner lived for two weeks according to the rules of St. Benedict in the Abbey of Herstelle.

In 1962 the Benedictine nuns from Herstelle founded a subsidiary monastery: Engelthal Monastery .

Guesthouse St. Scholastika

In 2004 the guest house St. Scholastika , named after Scholastika von Nursia , the sister of the founder of the order Benedict von Nursia , opened, as well as a new monastery shop. The sisters' fields of work are the accommodation and accompaniment of guests in accordance with the Benedictine rule, as well as various handicraft activities such as ceramics or gardening.

In 2015, the Convention of Manufacturers Benedictine Sisters consisted of 32 sisters.

Superiors

Monastery stairs, at the top you can see the abbey
  • Emmanuel Henry from Peppingen in Luxembourg, superior in 1899, prioress in 1901–1912

1912-1919 affiliation to the Mariahilf Benedictine convent in Bonn-Endenich as a dependent subpriorate

  • Angela Schmitz from Endenich, Subpriorin September to November 1912
  • Anselma Gürtler from Endenich, Subpriorin 1912–1913
  • Salesia Blanché from Endenich, Subpriorin 1913–1916
  • Margareta Blanché from Endenich, Subpriorin 1916–1919
  • Margareta Blanché, prioress 1919–1923 († December 29, 1923)
  • Theresia Jackisch, abbess 1925–1966 (prioress since 1924)
  • Beatrix Kolck, Abbess 1966–1994
  • Hagia Witzenrath, abbess 1994-2004
  • Sophia Schwede, abbess since 2004

Web links

Commons : Abbey Manufacture  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Program flyer of the abbey from 2013 , accessed on February 7, 2015
  2. ↑ The Benedictine Convent of Manufacture 1899-1999. New beginnings and constancy. 1999.
  3. ^ Presentation of the story on the abbey website , accessed on August 30, 2013
  4. ↑ The Benedictine Convent of Manufacture 1899-1999. New beginnings and constancy. 1999, p. 174
  5. ↑ abtei-herstelle.de , accessed on April 14, 2019

Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 24 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 3 ″  E