Franciscan Church of St. Barbara with Monastery (Mönchengladbach)

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Church and monastery
Church and monastery

The Franciscan Church of St. Barbara with monastery is located at Bettrather Straße 79 in Mönchengladbach ( North Rhine-Westphalia ).

The church was built in 1892. It was entered in the monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach under No. B 130 on December 6, 1994 .

location

The brick-built monastery, which is closed on four sides, is located in the northern urban expansion area opposite the Colorful Garden .

History of the monastery

The Franciscans of the order province "Saxonia" founded the branch in Mönchengladbach in 1889, in an upswing phase of the order after secularization and the prohibition in the Prussian Kulturkampf , which was elevated to a convent in 1902 . In 1929 the convent was transferred to the re-established Cologne Franciscan Province ( "Colonia" ). In Mönchengladbach the novitiate and the religious college for the formation of priests of the Colonia was located until the 1960s , here is the seat of the provincial archives, the provincial library and the Johannes-Duns-Skotus-Akademie, founded in 1978, the scientific writings on the life and work of the Franciscan scholar Johannes Duns Scotus and on Franciscan intellectual history and spirituality and organizes scientific conferences on this. The provincial care center for the elderly was in Mönchengladbach until 2005. The monastery has been part of the German Franciscan Province since 2010 .

Architecture of the church

The church building and the monastery tract from 1892 facing Bettrather Strasse, as well as the entire monastery grounds including the surrounding walls with their triangular reliefs facing Benediktiner Strasse, are to be classified as monuments.

The monastery wing is designed as a two-storey, broadly laid building , each with a gabled corner projection . Horizontal division through strongly offset base cornice, surrounding floor and roof cornice . All windows are uniformly roofed with segmental arches and provided with stepped walls and sill . In the back section of the facade on both storeys an even row of nine windows; in each of the risalits three windows and in the pediment also three windows, similar but smaller and grouped together. Above it is a single, narrow, upright rectangular window.

The building is accessed from the left side of the building. As a conclusion, moderately steeply sloping gable roofs ; the roof area of the central part is broken through by nine dormers continuing the window axes . Above the crossing a slim, pointed roof turret . The sparse ornamentation is limited to bricked sawtooth frieze (floor cornice), finely modeled pointed arch frieze and gable decoration in neo-Gothic forms .

The simple church building is directly connected to the monastery wing. The west-facing structure is designed as a single-nave hall church with a cross-shaped floor plan . Restrained structure of the brick facades by buttresses and uniformly high arched windows with final water hammer . The entrance front on the east side is dominated by a huge arched portal , which is flanked on the left by another entrance and on the right by two small arched windows that illuminate the vestibule of the side entrance. The interior of the church is impressive in its simplicity.

The formerly vaulted ceiling has been replaced by a flat wooden ceiling, and the room is simply whitewashed snow white. The only architectural adornment are the two pillars pierced by round arches that separate the lay nave from the long monk choir.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monuments list of the city of Mönchengladbach , November 16, 2018, accessed on July 29, 2019
  2. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 473.509.555.
  3. ↑ franziskaner.de: Mönchengladbach
    franziskaner.de: Johannes-Duns-Skotus-Akademie

Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 9 ″  N , 6 ° 25 ′ 48.7 ″  E