Sisters of Mercy of St. Elisabeth

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Former monastery in Shuir

The Sisters of Mercy of St. Elizabeth is a 1843 in Essen , was established in the Order , in 1844 founded the first hospital in Essen and today as Elisabeth Hospital in Essen- Huttrop operates.

history

The order, whose patroness St. Elisabeth von Thuringia was founded in 1843 by Clara Kopp and six other sisters who were previously members of various Beginning Convents in Essen . In the same year, the order received the order from the cabinet at the time to found a nursing home, which opened on January 23, 1844 as the first hospital in Essen in the renovated building of the Capuchin Monastery in Essen, which was closed in 1834 and cared for 34 sick people in the first year.

In 1876 the order established the St. Elisabeth Foundation and commissioned a board of directors to manage the foundation.

After the motherhouse of the order was based at the Capuchin monastery from the foundation of the order in 1843 and in the Elisabeth hospital from 1912, the monastery in Essen- Schuir was built in 1936 for 150 religious sisters.

Due to the decreasing number of members of the order, the remaining 30 nuns moved in November 2016 to the smaller Abbey of Emmaus senior citizens in Essen- Schönebeck . The Schuir Monastery was sold and converted into accommodation for around 500 refugees in 2016.

In addition to the hospital, kindergartens are also operated today.

The common grave field of the nuns is located in the Ostfriedhof in Essen . Because the order has become small with currently just under 30 sisters (as of 2016) and the care of the grave can no longer be maintained by it, a legacy grave was erected in 2015 , a gravestone redesigned as a grave of honor.

Monastery church

In 1935 , the Otto bell foundry from Hemelingen / Bremen supplied two bronze bells with the chimes b 'and des'' for the chapel . The larger b-bell was confiscated in 1942 and was probably melted down, at least it did not return after the end of the war. For this, the sister received an OTTO bell in 1950, also with the striking note b ′. The bell is dedicated to St. Elisabeth and bears a corresponding inscription. The bell was probably cast in 1898 for a parish in the Diocese of Trier. It was only given to the sisters as a loan bell.

  • Grave field in the east cemetery

  • Legacy grave in the Ostfriedhof

  • Building of the former monastery in Shuir

literature

  • Bernhard Frings: The Elisabeth Sisters in Essen, 1843 to 2017. Lived mercy “on site” . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2017, ISBN 978-3-402-13242-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernhard Frings: The Elisabeth Sisters in Essen, 1843 to 2017. Lived mercy “on site” . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2017, pp. 38–42.
  2. ↑ Bernhard Frings: The Elisabeth Sisters in Essen, 1843 to 2017. Lived mercy “on site” . Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2017, pp. 78–83.
  3. ↑ a b Homepage of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Elisabeth ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ); accessed on July 28, 2017
  4. ↑ WDR: Local Time Ruhr from August 8, 2016
  5. ^ Gerhard Reinhold: Otto bells. Family and company history of the Otto bell foundry dynasty . Self-published, Essen 2019, ISBN 978-3-00-063109-2 , p. 588, especially pages 328, 329, 509, 537 .
  6. ↑ Gerhard Reinhold: Church bells - Christian world cultural heritage, illustrated using the example of the bell founder Otto, Hemelingen / Bremen . Nijmegen / NL 2019, p. 556, especially pp. 291–293, 475, 498 , urn : nbn: nl: ui: 22-2066 / 204770 (dissertation at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen).

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