Benedictine monastery Osnabrück
The Benedictine Monastery of Osnabrück (also: Monastery of Eternal Adoration ) has been a monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Osnabrück since 1854 . It should not be confused with the Gertrudenberg Monastery , the former Benedictine monastery in Osnabrück.
history
From Saint-Omer to Osnabrück
The monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament, founded in Saint-Omer (70 km north-west of Lille ) in 1841 , which moved to Boulogne-sur-Mer in 1885 (and from there to Belgium in 1904), founded a branch in 1854 at the invitation of the Osnabrück auxiliary bishop Carl Anton Lüpke in Osnabrück (camp no. 5, then new ditch no. 10), which was raised to a priory in 1859 . From 1854 to 1865 the sisters ran a girls' school, which was attended in 1862 by the France-friendly King George V of Hanover .
Foundation in Eisleben, exile in Oldenzaal, new building in Osnabrück
In 1869 the monastery settled in the medieval Neu-Helfta monastery in Eisleben . In the course of the Kulturkampf , both monasteries had to leave Germany in 1875 and went into exile in Oldenzaal in the Netherlands. The monastery founded there in 1876 existed until 1967. After the end of the Kulturkampf, part of the Oldenzaaler Konvent returned to Osnabrück (but not to Eisleben) and built a new monastery on the site of the former (also with the proceeds from the sale of Neu-Helfta) "Nobbenburg" on Hasetorwall, which was occupied in 1899 and was enriched by an extension in 1910. When the Boulogne-sur-Mer monastery had to go into exile in Belgium in 1904, three sisters chose Osnabrück as their monastery in exile. There was no return to Boulogne.
War and reconstruction
After the monastery had become uninhabitable due to bombing between 1942 and 1944 (two sisters died), the monastery was rebuilt thanks to the support of Bishop Wilhelm Berning and the chaplain and later Bishop Helmut Hermann Wittler . Today the sisters run a host bakery, a parament workshop and a workshop for the artistic decoration of candles. The monastery (Hasetorwall 22) currently has 18 nuns.
literature
- Marcel Albert (* 1959, editor): Women with a history. The German-speaking monasteries of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament . Ed. 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. Column 2151.
- One hundred years of Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration in Osnabrück . Fromm, Osnabrück 1955.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 56.3 " N , 8 ° 2 ′ 29.4" E