Benedictine convent Cologne

Sacred Heart Monastery

The Benedictine Monastery of Cologne (also: Herz-Jesu-Kloster ) a monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Cologne-Raderberg .

history

The Benedictine Josefine Karoline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim , prioress first in the Bonn monastery , then in Viersen , founded, returning to Germany from exile in Holland in Tegelen , with 13 Tegel sisters in 1890 first in Domstrasse in Cologne, in 1895 in Brühler Strasse 74 in Cologne-Raderberg, the Sacred Heart Monastery built there with its own assets. She died three weeks after the move and was buried in the monastery. The maximum number of nuns was around 70 in 1925. Today (2020) the convent has 30 sisters. The monastery buildings have been a listed building since 1982.

During the Nazi era, the monastery was a collection point for Jews who were deported to concentration camps.

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.
Klara Antons: Life - Mother Josephine of the divine will. Caroline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (1835–1895) and the monastery she founded in Cologne-Raderberg . In: Benedictine Life in Cologne , ed. from: Historical Archive of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Marcel Albert. Schmitt, Siegburg 2010, pp. 185-202.
Laurent Henri Cottineau : Repertoire topo-bibliographique des abbayes et prieurés . Vol. 1. Protat, Mâcon 1939–1970. Reprint: Brepols, Turnhout 1995, column 808.
Johanna Domek: Benedictine women move the world. 24 images of life . Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2009, pp. 92–96.

Web links

Information on the Benedictine monastery in Cologne in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
Page about the monastery in the OSB atlas
Website of the monastery
Entry in the picture book Cologne
Page to the monastery on Orden-Online
City side to the monastery church

Individual evidence

↑ orden.erzbistum-koeln.de: Benediktinerinnen Köln: Wir über uns , accessed on December 29, 2019.
^ Transport III / 1 from Koeln, Köln (Köln), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 15/06/1942. In: YadVashem.org. Retrieved January 1, 2020 .

50.90724 6.95921Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ′ 26.1 " N , 6 ° 57 ′ 33.2" E

[1] rden.erzbistum-koeln.de: Benediktinerinnen Köln: Wir über uns , accessed on December 29, 2019.

[2] Transport III / 1 from Koeln, Köln (Köln), Rhine Province, Germany to Theresienstadt, Ghetto, Czechoslovakia on 15/06/1942. In: YadVashem.org. Retrieved January 1, 2020 .