Dominican monastery St. Albert (Leipzig)
The Dominican Monastery of St. Albert is a monastery of the Order of the Dominicans in Georg-Schumann- Str. 336 in Leipzig , district of Wahren . From 1942 to 1945, Superior Aurelius Arkenau hid deserters , Jews, communists and forced laborers in the monastery and parsonage and arranged for medical help and false passports. In the monastery church on August 5, 1999, the then ambassador of the State of Israel, Avi Primor , posthumously awarded the superior the award “ Righteous Among the Nations ” from the Israeli memorial site Yad Vashem .
history
prehistory
A first Dominican monastery was founded in 1231, and in 1240 the monastery church ( Paulinerkirche ) was consecrated by Archbishop Hildebrand of Magdeburg under the patronage of St. Paul . The monastery existed until 1539, when it was dissolved as a result of the Reformation . The building was handed over to the University of Leipzig in 1543 . The church was used for university purposes and for Protestant services.
History of the monastery
In 1931, the Dominican Order Province acquired today's monastery property. A chapel, the St. Albert Chapel, was inaugurated in the existing house on December 20, 1931. Further plans to build a monastery could not be pursued during the time of the National Socialist dictatorship .
Father Gordian Landwehr OP, who was transferred to Leipzig-Wahren in 1951 , initiated the construction of a monastery church. On October 13, 1951, the foundation stone was laid by the prior of the Berlin Dominican monastery St. Paulus , P. Heribert Grotendorst. According to the plans of the architect Andreas Marquart from Leipzig church under the direction of architect Rudolf Peuser was built and on 16 November 1952 by the Bishop of Meissen Henry Wienken ordained . In September 1953, the congregation looked after by the monastery was elevated to an independent parish . In 1968 and 1969 the complex was expanded to include a building for its own novitiate .
In 1994, by resolution of the provincial chapter of the Teutonia Order in 1992, a community of six Dominicans and four Dominican women was founded in the monastery. The provincial Manuel Merten rose on 21 September 1996, the Community to the Convention .
The structural conditions should be changed with regard to this survey. The day before the convent survey, Bishop Joachim Reinelt laid the foundation stone for a new monastery building. A new bell tower, called the St. Magdalena bell, was added to this. The entire ensemble of new monastery buildings, church, rectory and open forecourt was inaugurated on April 18, 1998.
Monastery church
The church is designed as a hall church made of plastered and painted white brick masonry with a bell tower on the east side. The exterior was renovated in 1999 and the interior has been renovated since 2001; so far, the wooden ceiling and heating have been renewed and the chancel has new seats.
In 1952 the organ building company Alfred Schmeisser from Rochlitz was commissioned to build an organ. This was the Easter Vigil played on April 18, 1954 for the first time, and on May 9, 1954 consecrated . The organ has pneumatically operated cone chests and a total of 1200 sounding pipes , which are distributed over two manuals , a pedal and 19 sounding stops .
The three bells of the church, manufactured by the bell foundry company Schilling & Lattermann , were consecrated by the Provincial P. Wunibald Brachhäuser on January 16, 1955 .
The round arch is used as a motif in the construction of the church . It is used in the opening of organ loft and chancel to the nave and in a three-piece arched window over the porch. This is combined with the main entrance by a blind arch on the south-facing side. Pairs of arched windows illuminate the church. Near the triumphal arch , apsidal chapels with round-arched access are attached to the nave . Slender arches separate the sanctuary from two side rooms.
Sanctuary
The altar room, which was raised by two steps, was redesigned for the first time in 1961/1962 according to the designs by Artur Becker from Leipzig; Another redesign in the years from 1973 to 1975 by Kurt Nowotny, Coswig, took place using the existing Saalburg marble . The Leipzig bronze picture foundry Noack made the tabernacle , the ambo and the altar candlesticks .
activities
The monastery maintains a reference library that is conditionally open to the public and contains around 5000 volumes on theology, philosophy, and art, as well as illustrated books and reference works.
The monastery operates a guest house with 16 rooms. There are conference rooms, an oratory and a fireplace room available. Events are offered on various spiritual topics.
Convention
The community currently (March 2015) has twelve members with different legal ties. You work as a parish, pilgrimage and police chaplain as well as a scientist at the Institut Marie-Dominique-Chenu , Berlin. The current prior is Josef Kleine Bornhorst OP.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Monastery, Convent & Church of St. Albert Leipzig-Wahren | Contact. Site of the monastery. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Monastery, Convent & Church of St. Albert Leipzig-Wahren | History of the Dominicans in Leipzig. Site of the monastery. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ^ Arkenau, Aurelius (1900–1991) - Dominican priest in Leipzig. Website leipzig-lexikon.de. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ Israel posthumously honors Dominican Father Aurelius Arkenau: Award. Website tdh-online.de. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
- ↑ a b c d e f Monastery, Convent & Church of St. Albert Leipzig-Wahren | Parish. Site of the monastery. Retrieved February 7, 2015.
- ^ Sylvia Kolbe: Church organs in Leipzig. Website University of Leipzig. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
- ^ Dominican monastery. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website bibliotheken-leipzig.de. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
- ↑ Guest house. Site of the monastery. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ↑ Events. Site of the monastery. Retrieved March 1, 2015.
- ^ Community of the Dominicans in Leipzig. Site of the monastery. Retrieved March 7, 2015.
Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 32.1 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 13.5 ″ E