Regina Pacis Episcopal Study Home

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The Regina Pacis Episcopal Study Home is an educational institution of the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese in Leutkirch im Allgäu with the founding mandate to prepare young people for a higher school qualification and to arouse interest in the subsequent study of theology .

history

450 years after the first deliberations of Bishop Johann Fabri , the Episcopal Boys' Seminar was opened on May 4th 1958 on the initiative of Dean Karl Kästle. Bishop Carl Joseph Leiprecht († 1981 ) placed the house under the protection of the patroness Regina Pacis , the Queen of Peace.

The house, affectionately known as Semi or Semi Leutkirch by the Leutkirch people, existed for 28 years with up to a hundred students. The Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart wanted to enable gifted boys in the Oberland to attend a secondary school and thus hoped to have offspring for the priesthood.

The boys' seminar was officially closed in 1984 for cost reasons, rebuilt, modernized and reopened in 1987 as Haus Regina Pacis . In fact, the demand for upbringing outside the home declined due to structural change in society and the importance of bringing up children from the 1980s onwards.

Since 1988 the Regina Pacis conference house has been one of 14 houses that belong to the church's own conference houses in the Diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart.

structure

The boarding school was always headed by a priest from the Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese. The first prefect was the priest Otto Baur from 1958 to 1967. Pastor Werner Redies followed in the years 1967 to 1975, who then headed Konvikt Ellwangen until 1985. Josef Lorinser († 2000) was then appointed head of the house until it was closed in 1984. The educational work was supported by a pedagogue and by a community service worker for each year. The maintenance of the house was taken over by five to six Vincentian women from the Untermarchtal monastery . Father Hubertus von Freyberg (deputy dean of the Allgäu-Oberschwaben dean's office) was the chaplain of the student residence.

School way

In the first few years, school enrollment at the grammar school was a prerequisite for entering the boarding school , in later years pupils of the secondary school were also accepted. The seminar ended with the high school students with the end of the 9th grade and the taking of the Landexamens ("Landex"). The high school students could then switch to a church Konvikt . For junior high school students, the stay usually ended with the attainment of the secondary school leaving certificate .

reception

The author Josef Hoben (1954–2012) from the Lake Constance district treats his life in the Regina Pacis Episcopal Study Home in a vivid and truthful manner in his quasi-autobiographical novel Losklang . The novel is a reappraisal of the traumatic experiences of the author's youth.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report on the occasion of the 50th anniversary ( memento of February 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), schwaebische.de, accessed on January 28, 2014

Coordinates: 47 ° 49 ′ 11 ″  N , 10 ° 1 ′ 20 ″  E