European monastery Gut Aich
The European monastery Gut Aich is a Benedictine monastery founded in 2004 in the village of Winkl in the Salzburg community of Sankt Gilgen . The aim of the monastery is to make a contribution to the peaceful coexistence of people and peoples in Europe . The patron saint of the monastery is Saint Benedict of Nursia , the father of the Benedictine monks, who is also the patron saint of Europe.
history
Benedictine monks were already active in the Salzkammergut around a thousand years ago . The most famous Benedictine is St. Wolfgang von Regensburg , from whom the lake and the place take their name.
In 1993, the Archbishop of Salzburg, Georg Eder , agreed to found a new monastery in Sankt Gilgen. The Franciscan Sisters of Au am Inn made their former children's home Gut Aich available for this new beginning . They were passed on July 24, 1993.
In 1999 the Benedictine monastery was formally founded, initially for five years "ad experimentum". The first canonical visitation of the monastery took place in 2001 by the Presidium of the Austrian Benedictine Congregation , the second on March 15, 2004. In the same year, the extraordinary general chapter of the congregation approved the final construction of the Gut Aich Benedictine monastery on May 3. On June 23, the Bishop of Regensburg Gerhard Ludwig Müller handed over a relic of St. Wolfgang for the altar of the monastery church to the monks of Gut Aich after a solemn service in the Regensburg monastery basilica Sankt Emmeran . This was buried there by the Archbishop of Salzburg as part of the solemn construction of the monastery on July 11, 2004.
On June 28, 2004, Father Johannes Pausch was elected first prior of the monastery.
The monastery church
The monastery church was consecrated on October 31, 1994 on the thousandth anniversary of the death of St. Wolfgang. In 1996 the chapel and the monastery were furnished with works of art. Together with Brother Thomas, Leopold Hafner realized the tabernacle and the wreath of apostles above the altar. The then German Chancellor Helmut Kohl , a permanent guest in Sankt Gilgen, presented the monastery with an icon of Christ from the Pope.
Facilities and offers
- Hildegard Center
The Hildegard Center, named after Hildegard von Bingen and consecrated on July 11, 1997 by Cardinal Paul Augustin Mayer , is the therapeutic outpatient clinic of the monastery led by Brother Emmanuel Hessler OSB. It includes massage , physiotherapy , psychotherapy and combination psychosomatic therapy. Acupuncture, infrared and herbal therapies are also offered. With the involvement of a medical director and the embedding of the outpatient clinic in the spirituality of the monastery, a holistic treatment approach is sought.
- Monastery winery
Various liqueurs, honey products, oils, balms, tinctures and a few other products are produced in the monastery cellar using ancient natural methods and are sold in the monastery courtyard shop.
- Art workshops
The following art workshops are operated in the monastery:
- Gold and silversmiths
- Tapestry weaving
- Metal art
- Stone carving
- Art studio
- Events
Various training and advanced training courses as well as yoga and dance events are held in the seminar rooms of the monastery. Monastery tours are also offered. After the children's services, the monks play puppet shows for the children present.
literature
- Lothar Altmann (Red.): In the sign of St. Wolfgang. Pause - perceive - look ahead. 20 years of the Seeon Abbey Culture and Education Center , 20 years of the Gut Aich European Monastery (accompanying book to the 2013 exhibition of the same name). Published by the Europakloster Gut Aich and the Kultur- und Bildungszentrum Kloster Seeon. Kunstverlag Fink, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2013, ISBN 978-3-89870-805-0 .
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Footnotes
- ↑ Catalogus Monasteriorum OSB Monachorum . Editio XIX. S. Anselmo, Rome 2000, p. 88.
Coordinates: 47 ° 46 ′ 36 " N , 13 ° 23 ′ 4" E