Josefine Karoline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim

Josefine Karoline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (born March 7, 1835 in Bonn , † September 17, 1895 in Raderberg ) was a German Benedictine nun and founder of a monastery.

life and work

Osnabrück

Karoline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim was the daughter of the large landowner Franz Egon von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (1797-1859) and his wife Paula von Romberg-Brünninghausen (1805-1891). She grew up as the second of six children in Cologne. In 1857, at the age of 22, she entered the monastery of the Benedictine Sisters of the Holy Sacrament in Osnabrück and took the religious name Josephine of the Divine Will .

Bonn

She moved to the Benedictine convent founded in 1857 in downtown Bonn (in the former Capuchin monastery) , which was run by her grandmother Karoline von Romberg, née. Boeselager- Heessen (1777-1857) was founded, and made profession there in December 1858 . As novice mistress she was elected superior (prioress) in 1863 at the age of 28.

Viersen and Tegelen

1872–1874 she founded a branch in Viersen and took over this monastery, which had become independent in January 1875, as superior (successor in Bonn was Berta Theophila Freundt until 1920). In May of the same year, Viersen Monastery was forced to emigrate by the Prussian culture war laws and founded the Nazareth Monastery (De Oude Munt) in Tegelen , which still exists today .

Cologne

In 1890, mother Josefine and 13 Tegel sisters moved to Domstrasse in Cologne in order to have the Sacred Heart Monastery built in Cologne- Raderberg (Brühler Str. 74) from there from her own resources , to which she and her convent moved in August 1895 . She died three weeks later and was buried in the monastery that still exists today.

literature

Klara Antons: Life. Mother Josephine of the divine will. Caroline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim (1835–1895) and the monastery she founded in Cologne-Raderberg . In: Benediktinisches Leben in Köln , Schmitt, Siegburg 2010, pp. 185–202.
Johanna Domek: Benedictine women move the world. 24 Pictures of Life , Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2009, pp. 92–96.
Herbert Weffer: The Mariahilf Monastery of the Benedictine Sisters and the Marterkapelle in Bonn-Endenich , Rheinlandia, Bonn 2001.

Web links

Website of the Benedictine convent Cologne

Individual evidence

↑ Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne South, deaths, 1895, document no. 987, according to her death certificate she was born in Bonn and died as "Superior of the Benedictine monastery Reichsfreiin Caroline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim" in Raderberg .

personal data
SURNAME	Fürstenberg-Stammheim, Josefine Karoline von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fürstenberg-Stammheim, Josefine von; Fürstenberg-Stammheim, Karoline von; Josephine of the Divine Will
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Benedictine and monastery founder
DATE OF BIRTH	March 7, 1835
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn
DATE OF DEATH	September 17, 1895
Place of death	Raderberg

[1] Landesarchiv Nordrhein-Westfalen, civil status archive Rhineland, civil status register, registry office Cologne South, deaths, 1895, document no. 987, according to her death certificate she was born in Bonn and died as "Superior of the Benedictine monastery Reichsfreiin Caroline von Fürstenberg-Stammheim" in Raderberg .