Mountain monastery Heiligenstadt
| Mountain monastery Heiligenstadt | |
|---|---|
 The entire building complex of the monastery and school |
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| location | Heiligenstadt , Friedensplatz 5 |
| Lies in the diocese | Diocese of Erfurt |
| Coordinates: | 51 ° 22 '39.2 " N , 10 ° 7' 48.9" E |
| founding year | 1862 by order of the Heiligenstadt School Sisters |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
Closure during the Kulturkampf in 1877 |
| Year of repopulation | Reopened in 1887 |
The Bergkloster Heiligenstadt in Heilbad Heiligenstadt is a monastery in the European Province of the Sisters of St. Maria Magdalena Postel in North Thuringia .
history
After contacting teachers in Eichsfeld, Thuringia, Sister Placida founded the first German religious establishment in Heiligenstadt on the former Stiftsberg in 1862. Since that time, the nuns in Eichsfeld have also been known by the surname of Heiligenstadt School Sisters and the monastery as a mountain monastery . The monastery became the mother house of the German sisters. The division of Germany made work more difficult within the German branch founded in 1920 and the Generalate was relocated to Bestwig in 1968 . In 2003 the Generalate of the Order returned to Heiligenstadt.
monastery
The actual monastery includes the convent buildings , a monastery chapel, a kindergarten and a monastery garden with a Way of the Cross . During renovation work in the 1990s, archaeological finds from the eighth to ninth centuries from the time Heiligenstadt was founded were secured.
Educational institutions
In the sponsorship of the Order of the Sisters of St. Maria Magdalena Postel, the following educational institutions are located in Heiligenstadt:
- Mountain kindergarten
- St. Elisabeth mountain school with a grammar school and a vocational school
An important school in the sponsorship of this order is the Engelsburg-Gymnasium in Kassel, Hesse .
Individual evidence
[1] Thuringian General; May 22, 2015: Placida reception of the school sisters with a lecture on the founding time
literature
- Heiligenstadt School Sisters 1862–1962. Self-published Heiligenstadt 1962 (no author given)