Baldegger sisters

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The Baldegger Sisters (actually: Sisters of Divine Providence ) in Baldegg near Hochdorf in Switzerland are a Franciscan women's order founded in 1830 with the seal : OSF (Ordo Sancti Francisci).

history

Baldegg Abbey on Lake Baldeggersee , aerial photo 1952
Baldegger Sisters' daughter boarding school, aerial photo 1946

Because little attention was paid to girls' education in the rural Lucerne Seetal, a school was built in the old Baldegg Castle on the initiative of chaplain Josef Leonz Blum von Hochdorf . Seven biological sisters of the Hartmann family from the Hilty farm near Hohenrain made themselves available for this task and went to Baldegg Castle on February 2, 1830 under the direction of chaplain Josef Leonz Blum. This was the nucleus of the order of the Baldegger Sisters. Soon more young farmers 'daughters joined and the “Poor Maidens' Association near St. Jost zu Baldegg” was created. The religious community adopted the rule of the regulated third order of St. Francis of Assisi .

The young sister community did not have it easy in the politically difficult time at that time and was repealed three times during the turmoil of the Sonderbund War and the sisters were expelled to different places.

Over time, the service and teaching sisters became an international order with monastic establishments in Amden , Baldegg, Bourguillon , Hertenstein and Crans-Montana as well as foreign communities in Tanzania (since 1921), Ethiopia , Papua New Guinea (since 1969) and Bosnia .

The monastery complex

The motherhouse, built from 1968 to 1972, forms the center of the community. This is where young women begin their religious life and return in old age. The Sonnhalde Baldegg nursing home is part of the monastery complex. The mother house was designed by the renowned architects Marcel Breuer and Robert F. Gatje from New York .

The monastery hostel was created from the converted buildings of the old monastery and Baldegg Castle. Baldegg Monastery has a large farm and a gardening center. The cloister yard and the cloister nursery are leased.

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