Sacred Heart Monastery (Nettersheim)

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View from the Parkweg (2014)
Central elevation with main portal (2014)
View from the southeast (2014)
Side elevation with chapel (2014)
Aerial photograph (2015)

The former Sacred Heart Convent at Klosterstrasse 12 in Nettersheim is under monument protection standing monument . The neo-baroque complex, built in 1919 and 1920, was based on a design by the Cologne architect Thomas Klee (1870–1925). After a temporary use as a retirement and nursing home Haus Tannenblick , the ensemble , which stands on a 29,909 m² plot of land, has been vacant since 2008 and is advertised for sale.

history

The creation of the Sacred Heart Monastery in Nettersheim originated during the First World War . After the end of 1916 at the local elementary school , the diphtheria broke out, the more epidemics followed in 1917, came in October of that year to a request of the parish priest of St. Martin the first Cellitinnen from their mother's house in Cologne (Severinstraße) to Nettersheim. There they first moved into the former hunting lodge of the industrialist Bicheroux in Steinfelder Strasse and their main job was nursing . In addition, they taught the local girls about the household to prepare them for work as housemaids . The order chose Nettersheim on the one hand because of its climate and its location close to the forest, and on the other hand because of the contacts that it has now established as a location for a children's rest home. After a larger piece of land was purchased at the northern exit of the village in February 1919, the construction of the monastery complex was already completed in 1920. The inauguration followed in June 1921. The power supply was initially provided by the Schleiden power station , the water supply initially via the local network. However, since this was subject to frequent fluctuations, the facility switched to self-sufficiency via a source on the Eschepütz, in the place of which is the so-called Marx cross . Only in the 1960s was a connection to the municipal water supply re-established. The sisters first moved into the chapel wing and only later moved into the adjacent building to the northeast. The facility subsequently served not only as a welfare and children's recreation home, but also for holidaymakers and other guests as accommodation and as a recreation center for the sisters of the various religious branches. While the guest children were accommodated in the basement, which also contained the kitchen wing, the guest rooms of the convalescent home as well as a small and a large dining room were located on the first and second floors. The northeast wing of the attic served as a dormitory for the house children. The sisters also ran the local kindergarten until 1958. In 1928, next to the existing playground and paddling pool, a lounge and relaxation hall for the children was built, which, however, was demolished in 1978 after a fire, along with other farm buildings that were also affected.

In the course of its existence the house served various uses. Towards the end of the Second World War it was still set up as a transit hospital for the Wehrmacht units retreating from the western front , and later it was an alternative hospital for the Schleiden district hospital in Mechernich . After that, as before, it was used as a rest home for city children from the Cologne area and the Ruhr area ; as well as a home economics school, as a rehabilitation facility for war invalids and as a facility for the convalescence of senior citizens. In 1984 the Haus Tannenblick nursing home was set up . The gerontopsychiatric facility of the hospitals in Zülpich- Hoven offered care options for 50 elderly and mentally ill people in need with 40 beds. In 1987 the last sisters left Nettersheim, but the property remained in the possession of the congregation . After the Zülpich Clinic and its subsidiaries were transferred to Marienborn GmbH in 2000 , which also included Haus Tannenblick as a branch of the St. Elisabeth Elderly Center, a few years later the decision was made to build the new Haus Tannenblick , which the last (2007 ) 53 residents moved after its completion in early 2008. In 2014 the facility celebrates its 30th anniversary. Since the care home was closed in 2008, the property has not been used, interrupted by occasional cultural events. In March 2008, numerous parts of the furniture belonging to the Tannenblick house were brought to Romania by way of an aid transport.

A conversion plan from 2007, which the Bad Münstereifel architect Heinz Zanger worked out, provides for the expansion into a wellness and congress hotel. The French garden, which is currently overgrown (October 2014), the wellness park to be created on the mountain slope, the Lourdes grotto and the chapel are to remain open to the public in the event of future use. The plans have not yet been implemented.

The vacant property found its way into the TV film Neue Chance zum Glück as Eifelkrankenhaus in 2011 (shooting in September and October 2010). The main actress Merrit Cremer, played by Sonsee Neu , visited her father Christian Murmann ( Reiner Schöne ) who was lying there .

The Sacred Heart Monastery was entered in the list of monuments of the Nettersheim community on December 13, 1988 (monument no. A 145).

description

The 14- axis system is structured by a central risalite and two side risers, the one on the left also accommodating the chapel wing. The central risalit is characterized by the elaborate sandstone portal , on the sides of which there are putti for decoration, which are crowned with medallions on the top (on the left: AD; on the right: 1920). Above the base storey , from rough-hewn red sandstone blocks, the ground floor with Rauputzwänden and window frames made of sandstone , about the verschieferte floor. At the top, the building is completed by a slate mansard roof. The back front (forest side) is simple and functional, opposite the street side, with brown rough plaster. The single-storey extension on the northeast wing, which has its own entrance, does not come from the original plan, but was also built in the 1920s. On the street side, a stone retaining wall delimits the monastery area, into which garages and stairways are integrated.

  • Nettersheim, Herz-Jesu-Kloster View from the chapel to the main portal.jpg

  • Main portal

  • Inscription medallion on the left

  • Inscription medallion on the right

  • Southwest side

Chapel of St. Augustine

The chapel wing, which is closed on three sides, has its own access to the southwest through a side portal. On the front side, it is accentuated by its curved saddle roof with an octagonal roof turret . The chapel , which was established in 1921/22 and consecrated to St. Augustine , consists of the chapel and a side chapel, and extends over the first and second floors. The laundry room was originally located below this in the basement , and above it in the attic, among other things, the room for the apprentices. The original interior design of the chapel is largely no longer preserved as a result of redesigns. When the lead glazing was renewed, the picture themes and motifs were essentially retained, but more geometrically structured. Otherwise, the jewelry from its time of creation was omitted. The baroque wooden altar from the time around 1700, from the parish church of St. Viktor in Oberbreisig , was last restored in 1924 by the sculptor Henri Helwegen (Koblenz). For the installation in the monastery chapel, the wooden figure of St. Nicholas placed in the gable niche of the altar was converted into a figure depicting the patron saint Augustine . The chapel bell, which dates back to 1415, came to the parish in 1966 at the instigation of the Aachen diocese . In 1971 in the course of renovations (including black marble flooring, painting and lighting) and in 1972 by adding to the inventory (figure of Mary), the chapel was last changed. Use for concerts, exhibitions or other cultural events is possible.

  • Nettersheim, Herz-Jesu-Kloster View from the main portal to the chapel.jpg

  • Chapel window

  • Chapel window

  • Side portal to the chapel

  • Side chapel

Lourdes grotto

In 1924 a Lourdes grotto was built above the chapel at the request of the then superior , which is connected to the monastery via a staircase. Its execution was in the hands of the Godesberg grotto construction company J. Krämer , which later also built the grotto for the choir of St. Martin's Church. In the years after its construction, the sisters and villagers repeatedly held light processions to the grotto above the monastery . At the western end of the main axis of the French cloister garden , a figure of Our Lady from Banneux was installed at the end of the 1950s or early 1960s . While its installation site is orphaned, the statue of the Virgin Mary erected in the grotto was destroyed by vandalism.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Herz-Jesu-Kloster  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Imke Ristow: The Sacred Heart Monastery in Nettersheim. In: Rheinische Heimatpflege, communications from the Rheinisches Verein für Denkmalpflege und Landschaftsschutz eV , 37th year, Cologne 2000, issue 2, ISSN  0342-1805
  2. ↑ a b c d Exposé of the Nettersheim community. ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 13, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nettersheim.de
  3. ↑ Nettersheim fights for new citizens. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from November 7, 2013, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b c Handbook of the Diocese of Aachen. 3rd edition, published by the Bischöfliches Generalvikariat Aachen, Aachen 1994, ISBN 3-87448-172-7 , p. 631.
  5. ↑ Marienborn GmbH invests millions. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from July 18, 2007, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  6. ↑ From the monastery to the "vacation home". Kölnische Rundschau of September 30, 2014, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  7. ↑ The monastery becomes a temple of art. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from September 25, 2009, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  8. ^ Monk death in the chapel of the old monastery. ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Wochenspiegel from August 10, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wochenspiegellive.de
  9. ↑ Reload relief supplies for Romania. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from March 16, 2008, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  10. ↑ The old monastery becomes a hotel. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from October 1, 2007, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  11. ↑ Enough space for your own ideas. Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from August 24, 2009, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  12. ↑ The next air number? Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger from January 4, 2012, accessed on October 13, 2014.
  13. ↑ Another chance for happiness. on citizens letter Blankenheim. Official Gazette of December 16, 2011. Retrieved October 13, 2014.
  14. ^ Nettersheim, Herz-Jesu-Kloster. at Stiftung Glasmalerei Forschungsstelle Glasmalerei des 20. Jahrhundert eV accessed on October 13, 2014.
  15. ↑ Ernst Wackenroder : The art monuments of the Schleiden district. (Ed.) In connection with Johannes Krudewig and Hans Wink (= Die Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinz , Volume 11, Dept. II), L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1932 (unaltered reprint Pädagogischer Verlag Schwann-Bagel, Düsseldorf 1982, ISBN 3- 590-32116-4 ), p. 274.
  16. ↑ For example, the company also created a Lourdes grotto in Binsfeld near Nörvenich. Margret Zens: Nörvenich in old views. European Library, Zaltbommel / NL 2010, ISBN 978-90-288-4879-5 , picture 5. as well as in Erkelenz- Borschemich picture

Coordinates: 50 ° 29 ′ 42.4 "  N , 6 ° 38 ′ 3.9"  E