Benedictine convent Bonn

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Maria Hilf monastery

The Benedictine Monastery Bonn (also: Monastery Mariahilf or: Monastery for Eternal Adoration ) was a monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Bonn from 1857 to 2001 , first in the city center, from 1888 in Endenich .

history

Foundation in Bonn

Karoline von Romberg, b. Boeselager- Heessen (1777–1857) bought the abandoned Capuchin monastery in Bonn in 1857 and founded the monastery for Perpetual Adoration there for the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament. It was settled by the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Omer, founded in 1841, and by the Benedictine monastery of Osnabrück, founded in 1854 . First matron was Mechtildis Scott of Saint-Omer. In 1863 she handed over the office to Prioress Josefine Karoline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim , a granddaughter of the founder. When she went to Viersen in 1874, Berta Theophila Freundt followed her until 1920.

Exile in Driebergen. Return to Endeich

In 1875 the convent was forced to emigrate by the Prussian culture war laws and founded the Arca Pacis monastery in Driebergen (today: Utrechtse Heuvelrug ), which existed until 1997 . When the convent was able to return to Germany in 1888, the former Bonn monastery building was sold and a branch was opened in Bonn-Endenich in Paula von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (1805-1891), widow of Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (1797-1859) , bought country house next to the torture chapel , at the foot of the Kreuzberg . Among the nuns was Sister Maria von der Sacrifice alias Sophie von Romberg-Buldern (1832–1924), another granddaughter of the founder Karoline von Romberg. A year later, the Franciscans settled in the nearby Kreuzberg monastery .

New building and branch monasteries

The rapid growth of the convent (1896: 76, 1919: 130, 1931: 148 sisters) made a new building necessary from 1891 (completed in 1916) and finally also foundations: in 1899 the still existing Herz-Jesu-Kloster Kreitz in Neuss-Holzheim , In 1907 the Niederlahnstein monastery near the Johanniskirche , which was moved to Johannisberg in Geisenheim in 1920 , where it existed until 1991. In 1912 Bonn took over the Herstelle Monastery (until 1924) and in 1916 the Ottmarsheim Benedictine Monastery . The re-establishment in Braunshardt near Darmstadt failed in 1931 after a year's stay.

War, destruction, reconstruction and dissolution

From 1941 to 1945 the monastery was confiscated (initially as a collection camp for Bonn Jews). The nuns had to stay as carers in hospitals and old people's homes. The buildings were destroyed by bombs. In 1954 the reconstruction of the sister house was completed, in 1962 that of the entire monastery. From 1952 to 1984 the monastery ran an old people's home. The convent's obsolescence and lack of vocations led to the dissolution of the monastery in 2001. Since then, the building at Kapellenstrasse 44 has housed the Archbishop's Missionary Seminary Redemptoris Mater Cologne .

Prioresses

  • 1857–1863: Mechtildis Scott (superior)
  • 1863–1874: Josefine Karoline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim
  • 1875–1920: Berta Theophila Freundt
  • 1920–1925: Rita Scheuer
  • 1925–1935: Benedicta Schweikert
  • 1936–1956: Felicitas Kiese
  • 1956–1964: Theresia Loenartz
  • 1964–1974: Maria Assumpta Hundegeburth
  • 1974–2000: Mechtild Cremer

literature

  • Marcel Albert (editor): Women with history. The German-speaking monasteries of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament , ed. from the Historical Section of the Bavarian Benedictine Academy. Eos, St. Ottilien 2003.
  • Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995, columns 423 and 1000.
  • Herbert Weffer: The Mariahilf monastery of the Benedictine nuns and the torture chapel in Bonn-Endenich . Rheinlandia, Bonn 2001.

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Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 6.8 ″  N , 7 ° 4 ′ 39.1 ″  E