Dominican monastery St. Albert (Walberberg)

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The Dominican monastery Sankt Albert in Bornheim - Walberberg , located between Cologne and Bonn on the slope of the foothills above the Cologne Bay , was a monastery in the Dominican province of Teutonia and existed from 1925 to 2007.

In order to establish the monastery, the Order Province bought the medieval Rheindorf Castle from 1140 above the town of Walberberg in 1924 and rebuilt it.

Life in the monastery began in 1925. The house was named after the learned Dominican Albertus Magnus , who died in Cologne in 1280 and was buried there. From 1934 to 1974 it housed the Albertus Magnus Academy as the Philosophical and Theological College of the Dominicans. Almost all German Dominicans completed part of their studies in Walberberg during this time. During the war the monastery complex was used as a hospital, expropriated in 1941 in favor of the “Greater German Reich” and returned to the order in 1945. In 1949 the Albertus Magnus Academy resumed teaching.

After the Second World War , the monastery housed the “ Walberberger Institute ”, a folk high school of the Dominicans, as well as the Institute for Social Sciences founded by Father Eberhard Welty OP, which was later headed by Father Heinrich Basilius Streithofen OP and is now based in Bonn Has. In June 1945 a program committee met in the Dominican monastery in Walberberg, which helped to prepare the founding of the CDU . Dominicans such as P. Eberhard Welty and P. Basilius Streithofen worked from Walberberg during the time of the Bonn Republic as advisors to various parties in the Federal Republic.

On November 25, 2007, the Walberberg Dominicans celebrated the last solemn service in the monastery church together with their Provincial Father Hans-Albert Gunk OP and brothers from all branches with great sympathy from many believers. In a letter dated December 31, 2007, the highest superior of the Dominicans, Master of the Order Fr. Carlos Azpiroz Costa OP, abolished the Walberberg Dominican Monastery of St. Albert according to the ordinances and canonical law after the provincial chapter of the Dominicans had decided in October 2004 that To give up the monastery for reasons of cost and a lack of young people. The last prior and head of the Walberberg Institute was Fr. Rufus Keller OP.

The important library of the monastery, comprising around 160,000 volumes, is now on permanent loan from the Archbishop's Cathedral and Diocesan Library in Cologne , where it is available for public loan. On March 1, 2008, the monastery complex was sold to a private group of companies that operates assisted living, care, hotel and catering facilities. From 2008 to 2011 the Walberberg Heimatmuseum was housed in the building, which has been located in the Walberberg parish center in the "House in the Garden" since March 2012.

literature

  • P. Rufus Keller OP, Heribert Dietz , P. Gerfried Bramlage OP (eds.): Dominikaner in Walberberg 1926-2007. 2014.

Web links

Commons : Walberberg Monastery  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Ockenfels: Adieu Walberberg. In: The new order. No. 6, 2006, on die-neue-ordnung.de, viewed May 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ Rufus Keller, Heribert Dietz, Gerfried A. Bramlage: Dominicans in Walberberg. Dominican Province Teutonia, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-046593-2 .
  3. ↑ Alexandra Klaus: "Here a piece of Walberberg is lost". In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . March 11, 2006, seen May 17, 2011.
  4. ↑ Dominicans sell Walberberg Monastery: Former monastery complex is being modernized for hotel, catering and wellness facilities. ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on: orden.de , February 15, 2008, accessed May 17, 2011.
  5. ↑ walberberg.info

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