Herz-Jesu-Kloster Neustadt an der Weinstrasse
| Herz-Jesu-Kloster Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | ||
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 Choir of the monastery church |
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| place | Neustadt an der Weinstrasse | |
| Client | Sacred Heart Priest | |
| Architectural style | Rectangular hall, embossed sandstone blocks | |
| Construction year | 1927 | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 20 '53.7 " N , 8 ° 7' 39.6" E | |
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The Sacred Heart Monastery in Neustadt an der Weinstrasse was founded in 1920 by Sacred Heart priests who had been expelled from Cameroon as missionaries in a disused quarry that had been acquired a year earlier . The former house of the quarry owner became a pastoral care house with a chapel. Over the next five years, more than 125,000 people made a pilgrimage to the monastery on the Kastanienberg in order to see three large open-air plays (" Moses ", " Jedermann " and " The Prodigal Son "). The inauguration of a new retreat house took place in 1927; this building is now called the villa. At the same time the monastery church was completed.
Robert Schuman , who was deported from France to Germany by the German occupation forces in 1940 and interned in the Hotel Kohler (the last building in front of the monastery, now condominiums), was an avid visitor to the services in the monastery. During the National Socialist era, the retreat house was confiscated as an auxiliary hospital in 1941 . The so-called Herz-Jesu Expositur , a pastoral care district for the faithful on the Hambacher Höhe until the parish of St. Pius was established in 1959, was established. The monastery and pastoral community consecrated themselves in 1944 at the hour of greatest distress in a solemn vow to the Rosary Queen of Fatima . Pilgrimage Sundays (formerly Fatima Sundays) take place from May to October to this day. After the war, the retreat house was able to resume its pastoral work in 1945.
The retreat house was structurally expanded in 1957. Half of the dining room was used as a lecture hall. Religious educational events were added to the retreats and days of reflection. A further expansion of the retreat and education house with guest rooms, a large hall, conference rooms and a palatinate cellar took place in 1973. The house is also available for guest and external conferences.
A new choir of the monastery church and a new monastery convent were built in 1979. The last major structural change took place in 1994 when a major interior renovation and extensive renovation work in the retreat and education house were due. All rooms were newly furnished and got wet cells . The dining room has been completely redesigned. Modern conference rooms and a cafeteria provided more space. A new meditation room was created in the attic .
Provincialate and Neustadt Monastery
In Germany, the Sacred Heart Order has become smaller. In order to bundle the forces, the Provincialate of the Sacred Heart Priests was moved to Neustadt. The office space required for this was created in former guest rooms above the monastery church. At the same time, the educational center and guest house ( KLOSTER NEUSTADT) also received a facelift. In addition, fire protection requirements made some redesign necessary.
All of this was tackled between 2014 and 2016. Technology that is now expected as a matter of course in educational establishments is now available, be it TV and WiFi in the rooms or lecture technology in the conference rooms. In addition, KLOSTER NEUSTADT also offers holidaymakers and hikers cheap accommodation.
Monastery church
In the Herz-Jesu-Klosterkirche the windows at the back of the choir in the lower part shine in reddish light like glowing flames. A ladder can be clearly seen in the upper window areas. A mighty, isosceles cross hangs on the back wall of the choir. Seven candles are burning under the cross on the front wall. In the foreground is an Easter candlestick . In the middle of the chancel of the altar, of which disc is of a standing olive tree and a laurel tree from bronze is worn. The ship of life with a red light hangs over the altar .