Helene Nickel Pen
The Helene-Nickel-Stift was a social institution in the Eschweiler district of Röhe in what was then the district of Aachen (today the Aachen city region ). The foundation for the establishment of the monastery as a charitable monastery were the legacies and gifts of the wealthy Protestant pensioner Helene Nickel (1848-1894). In her will of September 6, 1891, she had stipulated, along with numerous other legacies , that all of the properties she left, without exception, would be bequeathed to the Catholic Church in Eschweiler as a foundation . On January 1st, 1886 the consecration took place in the Röher Bachstraße with a child custody school (later kindergarten).
The monastery of the nuns of the poor servants of Jesus Christ , who worked in Röhe until 1960, was founded on September 15, 1900. In the house there was an outpatient nursing facility, the custody school and the sewing school until September 1967, later a Caritas organization for the disabled. Then it was converted into a residential building, keeping the original facade.
Web links
- Adam Elsen and Simon Stumpp: The Helene-Nickel-Stift in Röhe , local history on the website of the Eschweiler history association
Coordinates: 50 ° 49 ′ 33.6 ″ N , 6 ° 14 ′ 19 ″ E