Elisabethinnen

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Apollonia Radermecher, founder of the Elisabethinnen

The Order of Elisabeth (depending on the country and place different spellings possible: Elisabethinen and Elisabethinerinnen . - Ordo Sorores Hospitalariae Sanctae Elisabethae TOS Francisci / Order abbreviation : OSE ) is a Catholic congregation under papal law, which is active in the nursing of the sick. He belongs to the large Franciscan Tertiary family , whose rules were renewed with the Bull Dudum siquidem by Pope Leo X. The religious community is named after St. Elisabeth .

History and branches

All Elisabethinnen congregations go back to Apollonia Radermecher , who on August 13, 1622 was appointed "Gasthausmeisterin" of the "Städtischen Armenspital Gasthaus" in Aachen by the city council , the first Elisabeth-Hospital founded there in 1336 on the Münsterplatz directly next to the Aachen Cathedral . On the occasion of the takeover, she founded the order of the "Hospital Sisters of St. Elisabeth of the Third Order of St. Francis", which was confirmed in 1631 by Ferdinand of Bavaria , the Bishop of Liège . Due to the large influx of pilgrims, especially during the Aachen sanctuary tours , as well as the plague epidemics that repeatedly prevailed at the time , the order devoted itself to caring for the sick, poor and needy as well as the elderly from the start. Because of their specialization, the Elisabethinnen were spared both from the secularization by Napoléon Bonaparte and from Bismarck's Kulturkampf and served in various hospitals during the Second World War .

Motherhouse of the order in Aachen

The Elisabethinnenorden founded by Radermecher expanded rapidly and is now active with almost 1000 sisters in numerous countries in the care of the sick and the elderly and in childcare as well as in missions in Africa. Numerous monastery settlements emerged from Aachen, mainly on the European continent. This was mainly done through filiation , in which a mother monastery founded daughter monasteries, which in turn could become mother monasteries. The monasteries were mostly linked with integrated hospital and / or geriatric care departments. In this way, the following branches and hospitals, among others, were created:

  • 1622-1966 the acquired Apollonia Radermecher urban Elisabeth Hospital in Aachen, in the early 1850s, first in the spa Aachen been transferred and in the 1920s in the Goethe Street and in the 1960s in the University Hospital Aachen had risen . In the original “Gasthaus” on Münsterplatz, the “Vinzenzspital” was set up from the 1850s to the turn of the century, where the Elisabethinnen cared for the terminally ill. The Aachen motherhouse on Preusweg, newly established in 1937, which was initially occupied by the Gestapo during the Second World War and was badly damaged by bombing in 1944 and rebuilt after the war, is now used as a nursing home with its extensions. In 1937, the remains of the founder of the monastery, Radermecher, were transferred to the crypt of the monastery church there, and the nuns found their final resting place in a burial ground in Aachen's East Cemetery .
  • Selection of religious branches with hospitals

  • Graz branch

  • Prague branch

  • Linz branch

  • Kadaň branch

  • Teschen branch

  • Jablunkov branch

  • Neuburg an der Donau branch

literature

  • Ingeborg Schild , Elisabeth Janssen: The Aachen East Cemetery . Mayersche Buchhandlung, Aachen 1991, pp. 208-209, ISBN 3-87519-116-1 .
  • Rudolf Ardelt : History of the convent and hospital of the Elisabethinen in Linz. Wimmer, Linz 1979.
  • 300 years Elisabethinen in Graz. 300 years in the service of the sick . Styria, Graz 1990.
  • Erich Linhardt, Ralf A. Höfer: The Elisabethinen in Graz. A history of the Elisabethinen monastery and hospital in the Styrian capital, as well as notes on this order and its namesake. Elisabethinen Convention, Graz 1995.
  • Martin Kleber: From the Elisabethinen Institute to the Elisabeth Hospital in Straubing . Attenkofer, Straubing 1991.
  • Peter Tropper (Red.): 300 years of Elisabethinen in Klagenfurt, 1710–2010 . Elisabethinen Convent of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt 2010.

Web links

Commons : Elisabethinen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joachim Schäfer: Apollonia Radermecher , entry in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
  2. ↑ The family tree of the Elisabethinnengemeinschaften , accessed on September 25, 2019.
  3. ^ History of the Düren Hospital
  4. ^ Hospital Sisters of St. Elisabeth in Luxembourg
  5. ^ Website of the Elisabethinen, Graz, Austria
  6. ^ Elizabethine monastery in Breslau
  7. ^ Anton Peter: History of the City of Teschen , KuK Hofbuchhandlung Karl Prochaska, Teschen 1888, pp. 141–144
  8. ^ Elisabethinerinnen Bad Kissingen
  9. ^ Website of the Abbey of Azlburg der Elisabethinen, Straubing, Germany
  10. ^ Website of the Elisabethinen Linz-Vienna, History of the Elisabethinen in Linz
  11. ^ Website of the Elisabethinen Klagenfurt, Austria