Hülser Monastery of Geldern
The Hülser monastery , also In gen Hüls monastery or Hüls monastery , was one of the five monasteries that existed in Geldern before secularization .
history
It was founded in 1432 as a Beguine Monastery . It has been handed down that the monastery was founded by three virtuous virgins in order to lead a pious life there according to the third rule of St. Francis of Assisi . It was named after the married couple Jacob and Margarete In gen Hüls, from whom the property was acquired.
Before that, the Geldrian beguines lived in so-called beguinages. A bull of Pope Nicholas V of February 12, 1453 forbade the establishment of new Beguine monasteries and required the existing beguine's convents to adopt a rule of the order. Failure to comply could result in excommunication. The beguinage community of the Hülser monastery then adopted the rules of the tertiary ( Franciscan ). From 1452 the Hülser monastery can be found in the chronicles of the city of Geldern under the name Franziskanerinnenkloster. In the course of the city fire in 1547 and the siege by Prussian troops in 1703, the Hülser monastery was destroyed and closed several times, but repeatedly rebuilt and rebuilt for church services, most recently in 1735 with state funds.
According to the floor plan from 1817, the monastery was a U-shaped brick building, the middle wing of which stood along today's Hülser-Kloster-Gasse, while the two south-facing side wings enclosed a monastery courtyard. The courtyard and the monastery could only be reached via an alley from Issumer Strasse. At the intersection of Hülser-Kloster-Straße and Hülser-Kloster-Gasse was the monastery chapel with an east-facing, polygonal apse.
After the occupation of Geldern by French troops, the Hülser monastery was secularized in 1802 and converted into a new schoolhouse in 1817 due to the dilapidated structures of the old school building, the "Treekschen Küsterhaus". Written records confirm the continued use of the building complex, especially the former monastery chapel, until September 15, 1944. On this date the school was closed due to the ongoing chaos of the war and never reopened.
During the Second World War, Geldern suffered several air raids, with almost the entire inner city being destroyed by bombs and fire on February 14, 1945. The Hülser monastery was also destroyed and not rebuilt.
archeology
In the autumn of 2008, extensive construction work in the Hülser-Kloster-Strasse was archaeologically accompanied by an excavation company . The foundations of the Hüls monastery and parts of the apse foundations of the monastery chapel were uncovered and examined.
See also
literature
- Gertrud Hofmann, Werner Krebber: The Beguines. Past and present (= Topos-plus pocket books 530). 2nd updated edition. Butzon & Bercker, Kevelaer 2008, ISBN 978-3-8367-0530-1 .
- M. Josefine Ther: The world's first Carmelite monastery was on Veerter Strasse in Geldern. About the three monasteries of the Carmel order in Geldern and Nieukerk and their significance for the history of the order. In: Geldrischer Heimatkalender. 1975, ZDB -ID 402383-3 , pp. 114-119.
- Heinrich Verweyen: The St. Michael School in Geldern. From elementary school through elementary school to elementary school (= Geldrisches Archiv 3). Keuck, Geldern 1995, ISBN 3-928340-05-0 , p. 37f.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 8.4 " N , 6 ° 19 ′ 22.4" E