Servants of the holy childhood of Jesus

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The Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus - full name: Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus from the Third Order of St. Francis - Oberzell Franciscan Sisters - are a Roman Catholic women's order with a motherhouse in Oberzell .

history

The monastery church of St. Michael with the monastery wall and the "Schlösschen" (castle) built by Peter Speeth in 1812/13 during the secular period (right)

At Pentecost in 1855, Antonia Werr (1813–1868) from Würzburg founded the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. Their intention was the physical and mental care of neglected women and girls.

A long search for a suitable location followed. Important allies were Freiherr Maximilian von Pelkhoven (1796–1864) and the Franciscan Minorite Father Franz Ehrenburg (1823–1889). She eventually rented the so-called "Schlösschen" in the secularized monastery of Oberzell near Würzburg. Here she opened a house with four helpers on Whitsun in 1855 to rehabilitate women who had been released from prison.

In 1863 the community joined the Regulated Third Order of St. Francis . The Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus received ecclesiastical recognition in 1888. In 1901 the community moved into the former Premonstratensian monastery in Oberzell .

In 1908 the servants of the holy childhood of Jesus received state recognition and in 1936 papal recognition. The Obernzeller sisters managed also in 1911 by the Catholic Welfare Association , founded in care home for girls, women and children of St. Joseph in the Frankfurter Straße 24, which at that time had a homeless station for education in need of female adolescents and today as a Therapeutic Home Saint Joseph there.

In 1929 the first sisters went to America.

In 1951 sisters were sent to South Africa, where they founded the region of St. Clara. In 1962 the community had 1175 members. In 2007 there were 28 branches in Germany, two in South Africa and two in the USA , in addition to the headquarters in Oberzell Abbey .

Convents

In 2013 there were 23 convents in Germany, mainly in Zell and Würzburg.

Conventions in the USA and South Africa:

literature

  • Johannes Schuck: Oberzell Monastery. Creation and development of the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus as a contribution to the history of Caritas. Echter, Würzburg 1932.
  • Helmut Flachenecker , Wolfgang Weiß (Ed.): Oberzell - From the Premonstratensian Foundation (until 1803) to the motherhouse of the Congregation for the Holy Childhood of Jesus. Schöningh, Würzburg 2006.
  • Sybille Grübel: “A true Jesuit” - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 450-452 and 1303 f.

Web links

Commons : Oberzeller Franziskanerinnen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Rußwurm: Servants of St. Childhood of jesus. In: Michael Prem (Hrsg.): Trachten nach der Liebe - 40 years Caritas Association for the Diocese of Regensburg 1922–1962. Buchdruckerei Max Haas, Regensburg 1962, p. 287
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 455–458: The Church Development under Bishop Ferdinand Schlör (1898–1924). P. 456.
  4. ^ Website of the home .
  5. ↑ Josef Rußwurm: Servants of St. Childhood of jesus. In: Michael Prem (Hrsg.): Trachten nach der Liebe - 40 years Caritas Association for the Diocese of Regensburg 1922–1962. Buchdruckerei Max Haas, Regensburg 1962, p. 287
  6. ↑ Josef Rußwurm: Servants of St. Childhood of jesus. In: Michael Prem (Hrsg.): Trachten nach der Liebe - 40 years Caritas Association for the Diocese of Regensburg 1922–1962. Buchdruckerei Max Haas, Regensburg 1962, p. 288
  7. ↑ Sybille Grübel: "A true Jesuit" - Antonia Werr and the Congregation of the Servants of the Holy Childhood of Jesus. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , p. 452.
  8. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ a b Where we live , accessed August 25, 2020.