Franciscan monastery Wiedenbrück
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The Franciscan Wiedenbrück has a vested in 1644 Convent of the Franciscan Order in the East Westphalian town of Rheda-Wiedenbrück in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is connected to St. Mary's Church via the walkable cloister arch.
history
The Romanesque Ursula Church was built in Wiedenbrück in 1200, and today's St. Mary 's Church was consecrated here on December 7, 1470 . Opposite this, a house was bought in 1644 by the Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück , Franz Wilhelm Graf von Wartenberg, and the monastery was founded in it. The following year, a connecting bridge to the opposite St. Mary's Church was built across the street, in the same year, the monastery was founded was Pope Innocent X confirmed. After Wiedenbrück was conquered by the Swedes towards the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1647 , the Franciscans of the " Saxon Province of the Holy Cross" ( Saxonia ) took care of the miraculous image in the Marienkirche and of the pilgrims as well as pastoral work in the city soon after 1650 and the surrounding area as well as in the Wiedenbrücker Annunziatenkloster . In addition, philosophical studies for religious clergy began in Wiedenbrück. In 1663 the Franciscans take up the tradition of the Wiedenbrücker Kreuztracht, which continues to this day . In 1667 the foundation stone for the new monastery was laid.
When the city of Rheda was occupied by Münster in 1700 , the Franciscans took over pastoral care for the Catholic soldiers until the end of the occupation in 1785, as no Catholic pastors were tolerated in the Reformed Rheda. In 1715 the choir of the Marienkirche was expanded, and one year later the first construction phase of the monastery was completed. In 1730 a sacristy and a chapel were added to the Marienkirche, which today serves as a confessional chapel. In 1781, the steeple of St. Mary's Church, which previously wore a baroque helmet, was converted from the old roof structure of the former infirmary in Wiedenbrück to its present form. After the Münster soldiers withdrew, the Franciscans supported the establishment of their own Catholic community in Rheda.
Due to the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss in Regensburg on February 25, 1803 , the entire property of the monasteries, monasteries and abbeys passed to the respective sovereigns. On August 9, 1816, a Prussian cabinet order was issued, according to which the monastery may continue to exist "for the time being", but may not accept any new novices.
After Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , King of Prussia, stayed in Wiedenbrück on August 24, 1842 and the Guardian of the monastery was able to ask him for the monastery, the king allowed the admission of new novices in 1843. In 1854 philosophical studies were resumed.
As a result of the Prussian Kulturkampf , the Franciscans had to leave the monastery on August 7, 1854 . They go mainly to monasteries in the Netherlands and America. The Franciscans were only able to return to the monastery in 1887. You subsequently take over the editorial management of the "Antoniusbote" as well as the headquarters of the Franciscan Missionary Association .
In 1892 today's red brick building was erected on Mönchstrasse, and in 1898 the wing to the Nonnenwall, today's Franziskushaus, was added.
After the Second World War , a pedestrian passage was created through the monastery arch in 1948. In 1949 the monastery gate was redesigned. In 1983 the entire monastery was renovated and the monastery gate was restored to its current state.
From 1995 the wing on the Nonnenwall was redesigned as a youth hostel for the Franciscans by resolution of the provincial chapter of the north and east German Franciscan Province. In 1996 the renovation of the Franciscan House began, which lasted until 2002.
On July 1, 2010 all German Franciscans united to form the " German Franciscan Province of St. Elisabeth". The nationwide novitiate , in which the newly entered religious spend the first years, was in the monastery in Wiedenbrück from 2006 to 2017.
In the summer of 2020 the Franciscans will give up the monastery due to a lack of young people and leave Wiedenbrück. A non-profit cooperative Kloster Wiedenbrück eG , founded on January 20, 2020, takes over the building in order to open it up for civic, spiritual and cultural encounters in the tradition of the Franciscans.
literature
- Father Heribert Griesenbrock, Franciscan monastery and St. Mary's Church in Wiedenbrück , Schnell-Kunstführer No. 1768, Verlag Schnell und Steiner GmbH, 1989
Web links
Individual evidence
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↑ franziskaner.net: Franciscans leave Wiedenbrück in summer , February 6, 2020.
franziskaner.net: Founding of a cooperative in Wiedenbrück Monastery , January 20, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 9 ″ N , 8 ° 18 ′ 50 ″ E