Birgittenkloster Trondheim
The Birgittenkloster Trondheim ( Norwegian Birgittaklosteret i Trondheim ) is a company founded in 1998, Roman Catholic Convent of the Savior Order (Order Birgitt) in the district of Tiller in Trondheim , Norway .
The sisters came to Trondheim in June 1998 at the invitation of Bishop Georg Müller . The prelature made two detached houses next to each other available to them as a temporary monastery. One house served as a retreat , the other as a guest house. The two garages were set up as a chapel.
At the same time, not far from this temporary solution, work was being carried out on the establishment of a Birgitta center. In 2003 the order acquired a piece of land from the city in the Tiller district , a district where many Catholics, most of them immigrants, live. The property is located in the middle of a residential area with single-family houses and offers space for a church with 70 seats, a part of the building for the sisters' retreat with 12 cells, a guest wing with 15 single and 5 double rooms and a priest's apartment.
At the initiative of Michael Werling from the Cologne University of Applied Sciences , students from the architecture faculty accompanied the project with a diploma thesis, completed in 2005, which also contains a number of architectural drafts.
The first phase of construction was completed in 2009.
Monastery asylum terminated by the police
According to press reports, two children neglected by their mother were housed in the Birgitten Monastery from mid-July to August 25, 2010. The monastery management wanted to grant the mother and children a kind of sanctuary . A court- ordered separation of the two children from their mother was delayed as a result. A police search of the monastery took place on August 25, 2010, and the children were then taken into care by the Trondheim youth welfare office . Bishop Bernt Ivar Eidsvig stated that the approach of the monastery management had not been discussed with him. There has never been a comparable case of “monastery asylum” in Norwegian history.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.panoramio.com/photo/23881459
- ↑ "Barn hentet ut av kloster" , Norsk rikskringkasting , press report from August 25, 2010
- ↑ “Politiet hentet ut barn fra klosterasyl på Tiller” , Katolsk Informasjonstjeneste, August 26, 2010
Coordinates: 63 ° 21 '25.2 " N , 10 ° 23' 54.4" E