Teutonic Order Province of Germany

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The Teutonic Order Province of Germany is the ecclesiastical and constitutional community of solemn and simple professions as well as the Oblates of the Teutonic Order in the Federal Republic of Germany .

history

After the Teutonic Order lost all of its possessions in its home country of Germany through secularization in 1803, it virtually ceased to exist here. Only in the Austrian hereditary lands did the order continue to exist due to the restitution by the House of Habsburg . After the Second World War , the members of the Teutonic Order had to leave their homeland in the Czech Republic , Slovenia and Slovakia . Many of them came to Germany in search of a place to stay, others went to South Tyrol and Austria . The Bishop of Mainz approved them to set up a branch in his diocese, so that on May 1, 1949 a convent was founded in Darmstadt . A German province came into being, the priory of which was established in the aforementioned convent. Soon afterwards, the pastoral care of the expellees was taken over in Upper Hesse, in the Marburg area, and settled in various parishes in the diocese of Fulda. In Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen , the former Kommende was soon acquired and its reconstruction began. A parish belonged to it, whose pastoral care the order also took over again. On October 1, 1963, a convent was officially established here.

The province, which had hardly any offspring, usually first sent its novices and young priests to the provinces of South Tyrol and Austria. It was not until the mid-1980s that there was an upswing and a separate novitiate could be established. During this time, the priory was moved from Darmstadt to Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen and the branch in Wetter was elevated to a convent (1986). The community was also able to show itself successfully in the charitable works it had started, which expanded just as it did. After the priory had been moved from Frankfurt to Weyarn in Bavaria in 1998, where a convent had also been established, the province became the corporation of raised under public law . During this time, a convent was established in Maria-Birnbaum, which was also to house the provincial novitiate.

Shortly afterwards there was an economic collapse. The province now elected a new management, which in the following years worked cooperatively with the creditors, so that the financial situation could stabilize again.

In 2012 the novitiate was moved to the convent in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen due to lack of space.

The Ordenswerke, founded in 1991 by the German Brethren Province, celebrated their 25th anniversary in the summer of 2016; they operate nationwide facilities in the fields of elderly care, disabled people, addiction support, child and youth welfare.

Priors / Provincials

  1. Petrus Pollak
  2. Max (imilian) Josef Stanzel, 1983–1986
  3. Gottfried Keindl
  4. Norbert Thüx
  5. Christoph Kehr since 2015

Web links

Commons : Deutscher Orden  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Wensierski: CHURCH: "You can make real money there" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 25 , 2000 ( online - June 19, 2000 ).
  2. ↑ https://www.bayern.landtag.de/fileadmin/www/ElanTextAblage_WP14/Drucksachen/0000012401/wp14_0012600.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.deutscher-orden.de/noviziat/
  4. ↑ http://www.deutscher-orden.at/site/home/article/486.html
  5. ↑ Hessische Familienkunde Heft 2 (2010), page 115
  6. ↑ http://www.deutscher-orden.de/aemter.php