Old Heimerzheim Monastery
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The so-called Old Monastery in Heimerzheim was built around 1890 and was run by Franciscan nuns as a maternity ward, hospital and retirement home until 1965 . Today the Heimerzheim community uses the building at Kölner Straße 23 as an event location for non-profit organizations. The house is a listed building .
history
The two Heimerzheim manor owners, the Catholic Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager from Heimerzheimer Burg and the Protestant Karl Emil Wülfing (1847–1915, father of Emil von Wülfing ), owner of Kriegshoven Castle , decided at the end of the 19th century to set up a maternity ward for Heimerzheim to donate. The Franciscan Order in Olpe agreed to take over the sponsorship of the newly built hospital, which also contained a chapel. A smaller house previously operated in Kirchstrasse , the so-called “Klösterchen”, was closed. The deed of foundation stated that if the use of the new building was to be handed over to the parish for the further benefit of the general public. In 1899, six sisters began working in the hospital. In addition to obstetrics, the sick were cared for, children looked after and a sewing school was run. Elderly people who lived in an outbuilding (“asylum”) were also taken in later. A military hospital was set up during the Second World War . In the post-war period, the nuns gave birth again and ran a day-care center. For a while there was also cooperation with the maternal convalescence organization. In July 1965 the remaining Franciscan Sisters gave up their work and returned to their mother house in Olpe.
The plant was transferred to the Archdiocese of Cologne , from which the Catholic parish in Heimerzheim took over. In 1968 a Catholic kindergarten was opened in a villa that belonged to the former monastery. In 1970 another extension was built - it served to expand the kindergarten. The main building, on the other hand, stood empty for several years. In 1967 the Heimerzheim community leased it and initially used it as a school building. From 1974 the Catholic community youth, potters interested, the local drum corps, members of the German Red Cross , the police, a chess club and artists met here. After a renovation in 1986 and 1987, it became the "Old Monastery Meeting Place". The open youth club in Swisttal has been run by the Catholic youth agency in Bonn since 2015 . The Kunstverein Swisttal , founded in 1988, also uses the premises for regular exhibitions.
literature
- Hermann Schlagheck, The Heimerzheim Monastery through the ages , Niederhofen 2006, in: Yearbook of the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , 2007, pp. 150–154
Web links
- Website of the open child and youth work Swisttal
See also
References and comments
- ↑ Wülfing was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on January 1, 1900, according to Karl Emil von Wülfing , Geneanet
- ↑ Thematic week "Youth Today" of the CDU Rhein-Sieg: Visit of the open youth meeting in the "Old Monastery" Heimerzheim , June 4th, 2015, Blick Aktuell (Die Heimatzeitung)
- ↑ Ulrike Strauch, Art Association Swisttal celebrates its 20th anniversary in the old Heimerzheim Monastery , April 5, 2008, Bonner General-Anzeiger
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 53.9 " N , 6 ° 54 ′ 47" E