Antonia Werr

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Antonia Agnes Josepha Werr (born December 14, 1813 in Würzburg ; † January 27, 1868 ibid) was the founder of the community of servants of the holy childhood of Jesus in Oberzell , also known as the "Oberzeller Sisters".

Life

Antonia Agnes Josepha Werr was born in Würzburg in 1813 as the eighth child of the grand ducal "Hoföconomie- Rentamtsmann " Joseph Werr. Her father died of typhus on the day she was born before Antonia was born. Antonia Werr went to school with the Würzburg Ursulines . She was the only one of the siblings to stay with her mother Agnes in Würzburg and, after she became seriously ill, looked after her for several years until her death in 1841.

After Antonia Werr had rejected several marriage proposals, she joined the monastery of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd in Namur in Belgium in 1845 and shortly afterwards moved to the mother house of the order in Angers in France as a postulant (candidate) .

Life in France did not satisfy her and after the end of her probationary year, Werr returned to Würzburg. There she ran the household to her brother-in-law, the widower Karl von Gemmingen, until his death in 1849. Then she moved into an apartment on Franziskanergasse. Before the Würzburg Franciscan Minorite Franz Ehrenburg, she took her religious vows on July 31, 1848, but continued to live alone in her apartment.

In Würzburg, where she began planning a refuge for socially disadvantaged women at the beginning of the 1850s, after a long search for suitable premises, in August 1854 she found out about the possibility of closing the so-called "Schlösschen" of the former monastery estate of Oberzell in the nearby town of Zell rent. At Pentecost 1855 she founded the servants of St. Childhood of Jesus (initially as a civil association of the Catholic Virgins' Association of the Holy Childhood of Jesus to mend neglected female people ) with the intention of accommodating themselves in the "small castle" and operating from April 30, 1855 with four employees to the "rescue facility" To take care of the physical and mental care of neglected, often convicted and endangered, socially disadvantaged women and girls in their hometown.

The Munich State Councilor Maximilian von Pelkhoven was for many years Werr's closest confidante, advisor and pen pal. On December 14, 1854, he obtained permission for Werr to set up their reformatory. Both the community and the institution for the reform of released female convicts of the Catholic religion were officially founded on May 27, 1855 and Werr was elected headwoman for life. Initially, women from Würzburg and from the Ebrach forced labor camp were accepted .

After the "Schlösschen" had become too small for the community at the end of 1855, the Zum Greifen inn on the Hettstädter Steige was acquired, converted according to plans by Würzburg city planning officer Josef Scherpf and moved into in July 1856. At that time, 17 young women were being cared for by the institution. In 1858 Werr founded the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus .

In 1863 this community joined the Regulated Third Order of St. Francis and by joining the Johannisverein Antonia Werrs establishment became a legal person on March 4, 1863.

In 1868 Antonia Werr died of typhus , she had been infected while caring for the sick. Until her death, she had accepted 67 women into her institution.

After the printing machine factory Koenig & Bauer moved from the former Premonstratensian monastery in Oberzell to the other bank of the Main in 1901 , it took over the former monastery buildings and the church, which was only confirmed as a church cooperative in 1888 and in 1908 as a corporation under public law and a religious order. The community has had its headquarters in Oberzell ever since.

literature

  • Erich Garhammer : The “Oberzeller Sisters” on the way to the present - tasks and profile. In: Helmut Flachenecker , Wolfgang Weiß (ed.): Oberzell - From the Premonstratensian Foundation (until 1803) to the motherhouse of the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. QFW 62, Würzburg 2006, pp. 675-690.
  • Sybille Grübel: “A true Jesuit” - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 450-452 and 1303 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 450–452 and 1303 f., Here: p. 450.
  2. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. 2007, p. 450.
  3. ↑ Website of the Diocese of Würzburg, On the 200th birthday of Antonia Werr
  4. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. 2007, p. 450 f.
  5. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. 2007, p. 450 f.
  6. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. 2007, p. 451.
  7. ↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: pp. 442 f.
  8. ↑ Ann-Christin loader man in Wurzburg Catholic Sunday paper , December 10, 2013 ( Digitalisat ( Memento of the original February 23, 2016 Internet Archive ) Info: . The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested Please review the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sobla.de
  9. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. 2007, p. 451 f.
  10. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. 2007, p. 452.
  11. ↑ Catholic virgin association of St. Childhood of Jesus from the third order of St. Francis of Assisi to mend neglected female people in Oberzell , list of sisters 1866
  12. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. 2007, p. 452.
  13. ^ Würzburger Stadt- und Landbote, January 28, 1868 ( digitized version )
  14. ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1229.
  15. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 2007, p. 452 and p. 1304, note 12.
  16. ^ Maximilian von Pelkhoven to Antonia Werr on December 26, 1854.
personal data
SURNAME Werr, Antonia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werr, Antonie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Founder of the order
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1868
Place of death Wurzburg