Gertrud Leupi

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Sr. Gertrud Leupi OSB

Gertrud Leupi (born March 1, 1825 in Wikon ; † March 26, 1904 there ) was a Swiss Benedictine nun and founder of a monastery.

life and work

Maria Rickenbach

Gertrud Leupi came from a farming family who moved to Lucerne in 1846. She entered 1848 in the Monastery Baldegg in Baldegg and laid 1850, the profession from. She was trained as a teacher and taught in the Cistercian monastery Frauenthal , as well as in the Benedictine monastery Engelberg . In 1857 she left the Baldegger sisters and founded the Maria Rickenbach monastery with others in Niederrickenbach , which cultivated Perpetual Adoration . In 1858 she was elected superior. The (still existing) monastery opened a boarding school for girls in 1859, which was closed in 1981.

Missouri and South Dakota

The neighboring Benedictine monastery Engelberg, which had promoted the establishment, attacked the United States in 1873 ( Abbey Conception in the state of Missouri ) and requested the Benedictine nuns of Maria Rickenbach to teach the children of German emigrants. Superior Leupi sent sister Anselma Felber (1843-1883) to found the Clyde Monastery ( Nodaway County ) in 1874 and went to the States in 1879 (resigning her leadership position in Maria Rickenbach), first to Maryville (near Conception and Clyde) , Missouri, then, for better cooperation with Bishop Martin Marty , to South Dakota , 1883 to Zell ( Faulk County ) and 1887 to Yankton ( Sacred Heart Monastery , existing).

Marienburg Wikon

In 1891, when Yankton already had more than 60 sisters, she returned to Switzerland, bought Wikon Castle with the help of her nephew and pastor Josef Leupi and founded the Marienburg Wikon Monastery as an educational and missionary institute , where she became sisters for missions in the United States trained. She died in 1904 at the age of 79. The monastery was given up in March 2019 and the last Benedictine nuns moved into the converted St. Andreas convent in Sarnen . The monastery complex was sold at the end of 2019.

literature

  • Johanna Domek: Benedictine women move the world. 24 images of life . Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2009, pp. 97-101.
  • Ernstpeter Heiniger: Change is possible ... lateral thinkers and border crossers in missionary work . Rex, Luzern 2013, pp. 239–262.
  • Moritz Jäger: Sister Gertrud Leupi, 1825–1904. Founder of the 3 Benedictine convents Maria Rickenbach, Yankton, Marienburg . Kanisius Verlag, Freiburg in Switzerland 1974.
  • Ann Kessler: Benedictine Men and Women of Courage. Roots and History . Yankton 1996. Seattle 2014.
  • Yvonne Leimgruber: To be faithful to God, consecrate your whole life. Excerpts from the life of the Benedictine Gertrud Leupi (1825–1904) . In: Der Geschichtsfreund 150, 1997, pp. 5-34.
  • Yvonne Leimgruber: Thoughts on a psychohistorical-biographical licentiate thesis on the Benedictine Gertrud Leupi (1825–1904) . In: Gender has a method. Approaches and perspectives in women's and gender history. Contributions to the 9th Swiss Conference of Women Historians in 1998 . Chronos, Zurich 1999, pp. 87-98.
  • Ida Lüthold-Minder: Mother Maria Gertrud Leupi . Bargezzi, Bern 1973.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucerne building contractor buys empty women's convents. In: Luzerner Zeitung , January 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Leupi, Gertrud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leupi, Gertrude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Benedictine nun and founder of a monastery
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Wikon
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 1904
Place of death Wikon