Franciscan monastery Paderborn

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Saint Thekla, painted in 1902 by Franz Thöne for the Franciscan monastery in Paderborn (lost since 1945)

The Franziskanerkloster Paderborn is a 1658 based Kloster the Franciscan (OFM) in Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia . Until the merger of the German Franciscan Provinces into the German Franciscan Province of St. Elisabeth 2010 it belonged to the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross . Before that, there was a monastery elsewhere from 1232 until the Reformation .

The first monastery

The beginnings of the monastery go back to the year 1232, when brothers of the Franciscan order founded in 1210 settled in the Johanneskloster am Kamp in Paderborn. At this monastery, which belonged to the Cologne Franciscan Province ( Colonia ), there was an order study to train the order's offspring by lecturers . In 1493 the Paderborn lecturer Albert Engel became Auxiliary Bishop in Paderborn . The monastery had a date in Geseke in the 15th century ; In 1506 the monastery church was destroyed in a fire and only consecrated again in 1604 after extensive renovation. however, it was abolished as a result of the Reformation . By 1527 many members of the convent had joined the Lutheran doctrine, the last Franciscans left the monastery in 1530. The monastery buildings were sold.

Today's monastery

When the Paderborn cathedral chapter brought the Jesuits to Paderborn in 1580 , the counter-reformation and recatholicization began for the city , which Prince-Bishop Dietrich von Fürstenberg vigorously promoted. In 1585 the Jesuits took over the management of the grammar school . In 1612, brothers of the Capuchin Order , which had arisen from the Franciscan Order through division in 1528, came to Paderborn and founded a monastery, today's Liborianum .

In 1658 the Franciscan Observants of the Saxon Order of the Holy Cross ( Saxonia ) settled in Paderborn, this time in Westernstrasse. There the religious received a house with a garden from the citizen Hermann Georg Rickwin (Reckwin); In return, he received the right to receive board and lodging in every monastery in Saxonia . The Franciscans moved into their accommodation on March 31, 1658 with the participation of Prince-Bishop Dietrich Adolf von der Recke . In 1663 the foundation stone was laid for a new convent building, in 1668 for a new church. Overall, a baroque complex in the Italian style was created. In 1728 the monastery was given a "prince's wing" with an infirmary and lecture hall. At this monastery, too, there was again a religious study of the Saxonia , namely for dogmatic-scholastic theology, and the Franciscans led the normal school in Paderborn towards the end of the 18th century. They were pastoral workers in their monastery church, but also in the Paderborn cathedral and in the penitentiary . In 1811 15 fathers and six lay brothers lived in the Paderborn convent.

This second Franciscan monastery was spared from the monastery closings of the secularization at the beginning of the 19th century; the monastery was only inventoried by the state in 1811/1812 . In 1821 a commission inspected the “prince's wing” in order to possibly set up a court there. The Guardian was able to reject the request by pointing out that there lived old clergy who would be entrusted to the Franciscans for care by the government or the diocese. In 1825 the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III approved . the continued existence of the Franciscan monasteries in Dorsten and Paderborn.

The monastery still exists today. There was an interruption in the Prussian Kulturkampf when the Paderborn monastery was closed on July 29, 1875; the brothers went into exile in Püth, Holland, but were able to return to Paderborn in 1887. During the First World War there was a military hospital in the monastery . The buildings fell victim to the bombing raid on Paderborn on March 27, 1945, with the exception of the façades facing Westernstrasse and were then rebuilt; the church could be used again in 1948 and the monastery building three years later. Since then, the altarpiece of Saint Thekla , which the painter Franz Thöne, born in the Paderborn district of Wewer , had created for the monastery there in 1902, has been lost. The theological study house of the province of Saxonia was located in Paderborn until 1970 and was then given up in favor of the Philosophical-Theological College of the Franciscans and Capuchins in Münster . Extensive renovation and modernization measures took place from 2005 to 2006, and since 2010 the monastery has housed the archive of the German Franciscan Province. The currently 14 Franciscan Brothers are mainly active in conversation and confessional pastoral care at the monastery church, as nurses and in the retreat . Lectures, exhibitions and concerts are occasionally held in the monastery.

See also

literature

  • Convent of the Franciscans in Paderborn (ed.): Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the Franciscan monastery in Paderborn 1658–1958. Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, Werl 1958.
  • Ralf Nickel: The Friars Minor in Paderborn. In: Dieter Berg (ed.): Franciscan life in the Middle Ages. Studies on the history of the Rhenish and Saxon order provinces. Dietrich-Coelde-Verlag, Werl 1994, pp. 229-252.
  • Theodor Arens, Stanislaus Kandula, Roman Mensing: Baroque in the Archdiocese of Paderborn . Bonifatius Verlag, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 978-3-89710-495-2 .

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkirche Paderborn  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 199.213.231.265.271.317.331.
  2. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 335.343.369.373.375.377.379.409.433.
    Diodor Henniges: Personnel of various monasteries 1802–1811. In: Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross. Ed. Vom Provinzialat, Vol. I (1908), pp. 122–130.
    Franz-Josef Esser: The Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross on the eve of secularization and its history in the first half of the 19th century. (Unpublished manuscript) o. O. 1973, p. 30.
    Simon Reinhardt: Three centuries of monastery history. In: Convent of the Franciscans in Paderborn (ed.): Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the Franciscan monastery in Paderborn 1658–1958. Werl 1958, pp. 17-102.
  3. ^ Diodor Henniges: Inventory of the Paderborn Monastery 1811/1812. In: Contributions to the history of the Saxon Franciscan Province of the Holy Cross. Edited by P.  Patricius Schlager , Vol. IV / V (1911/12), pp. 207–211.
    Simon Reinhardt: Three centuries of monastery history. In: Convent of the Franciscans in Paderborn (ed.): Festschrift for the 300th anniversary of the Franciscan monastery in Paderborn 1658–1958. Werl 1958, pp. 17-102, here pp. 66f.
  4. ↑ Dieter Berg (Ed.): Traces of Franciscan History. Werl 1999, p. 461.503.
  5. ↑ franziskaner.net: Paderborn

Coordinates: 51 ° 42 ′ 58.6 "  N , 8 ° 44 ′ 59.8"  E