Augustinian Choir Women BMV
The Augustinian Choir Women BMV or Congregatio Beatae Mariae Virginis ( order abbreviation: CBMV) are a Roman Catholic women's order . In France they are known as the Congrégation de Notre-Dame de chanoinesses de Saint Augustin , or Congrégation Notre Dame for short . In Germany, at the time of their first German settlements, they were also known as Welschnonnen or Lotharinger choir women . The Generalate of the Order is based in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France .
In Trier and Mainz the preserved churches of their monasteries, which were closed in 1802, are still called Welschnonnen Church (see Welschnonnen Church Trier and Welschnonnen Church Mainz ), in Mainz the Welschnonnengasse is reminiscent of the monastery.
History of the Order
In 1597, Alix Le Clerc founded a new community for the education of young women in Mattaincourt (Lorraine) with the help of Pierre Fourier . As an additional fourth vow, the sisters promised to take care of the upbringing of the girls. The community founded several secondary schools for girls in Lorraine, France in the 17th century . In 1603 a branch was established in Nancy , and in 1604 in Saint-Nicolas-de-Port. In 1628 the order of the Augustinian women choir was recognized by the church. In the 17th and 18th centuries numerous subsidiary monasteries were built in France and Germany. The houses were originally organizationally independent of one another.
The first monastery in Germany was built in Münster in 1642 . In 1652 Princess Anna Salome von Salm-Reifferscheidt , abbess of the Essen monastery , gave the sisters a beginner's monastery in Alten Hagen in Essen , where they founded the BMV school that still exists today . A branch was established in Mainz in 1679 and existed until 1802.
In 1927 some of the autonomous German branches merged into a federation. Other monasteries later joined. To this federation belong meanwhile
- BMV Monastery in Essen (since 1652)
- Convent of Our Lady in Offenburg (since 1823)
- Michaelskloster in Paderborn (since 1658)
- Goldenstein Monastery in Elsbethen near Salzburg (Austria) (since 1877)
- Miasszonyknk Nöi Kanonokrend Monastery in Pécs (Hungary) (since 1851; closed in 2006)
- Notre Dame Monastery in Bratislava (Slovakia) (since 1747)
In 2014 a total of 30 professed Augustinian choir women lived in Germany.
Monasteries
literature
- Alfred Wendehorst , Stefan Benz: Directory of the monasteries of the Augustinian Canons and Choirs . In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research. Vol. 56 (1996), pp. 1–110 ( digitized version of the Bavarian State Library).
Web links
- Michaelskloster Paderborn
- Monastery in Essen
- Monastery in Offenburg
- Congrégation Notre-Dame Chanoinesses de Saint Augustin , French branch of the order
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the BMV school in Essen ( Memento from September 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Leonhard Wassermann (Ed.): Chronicle of the Welschen Nonnen zu Mainz , 1907
- ↑ Order abbreviations. German Ordensobernkonferenz , accessed on August 3, 2015 (see entry "CBMV"): "In Germany there are three branches of Augustinian women in 2014 in Essen, Offenburg and Paderborn with a total of 30 professed sisters."