Liborianum

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Liborianum, left: monastery entrance, right entrance to the Capuchin Church
Entrance to the former monastery
Entrance to the Capuchin Church
Altar of the Capuchin Church
The Liborianum in 1925 (back)
Liborianum: window picture with motto

The Liborianum is an educational institution in Paderborn and has had an eventful history. It has served different purposes over the centuries; For over 200 years it was a Capuchin monastery . It takes its name from St. Liborius , the patron saint of the Archdiocese of Paderborn .

The buildings and their history

The Liborianum was built in 1612 at the time of Prince-Bishop Dietrich von Fürstenberg on the initiative of the Paderborn cathedral dean and later cathedral provost Arnold von der Horst († 1630) by Capuchins as the monastery of St. Francis Seraph .

The buildings were destroyed in a city fire in 1616, but the cathedral dean financed a new building and expanded the monastery garden. Since the foundation walls of this new building were not renewed, the buildings were so dilapidated by 1670 that they were completely demolished in 1673 and the third building was now under the supervision of the master builder and Capuchin brother Ambrosius von Oelde († 1705). The year 1674 is written above the monastery gate. Between 1681 and 1683 the monastery church was also completely rebuilt. The then Auxiliary Bishop Nils Stensen consecrated the church on June 4, 1683 to St. Franciscus Seraphicus .

This church is a “classic” Capuchin church, that is to say a simple, four-bay hall church with a square, recessed choir room and a barrel-vaulted oratory . Below the choir is the death cellar, in which the dead Capuchins were buried from 1687 to 1809.

The novitiate of the Rhenish Capuchin Province was also located in the monastery for a few years (1624–1627) .

During the Thirty Years' War , the monastery and church remained largely undisturbed because even Duke Christian von Braunschweig (1599–1626) refrained from plundering because of the poverty of the monastery.

The monastery suffered heavily in the Silesian Wars between 1741 and 1763, when the French and English stayed in the house.

As a special feature it should be noted that the so-called Aachen group of imperial regalia was brought to safety in the monastery from 1794 to 1798. From here they came to the treasury of the Vienna Hofburg .

During the secularization , the monastery community was abolished in 1811 and the monastery was finally closed in 1834. The house was initially continued as a home for older priests and from 1840 to 1846 as a "poor-toddler- care school" by Pauline von Mallinckrodt , who began looking after blind children here from 1842 onwards.

The Capuchin Church burned down completely in the Second World War in 1945 during the heavy attacks on Paderborn and had to be rebuilt. The church is the house church of the Liborianum. It houses a beautiful monstrance from 1758 of Augsburg provenance (origin). The coat of arms of the founder Arnold von Horst is located above the monastery entrance . The church received an altar in 1962 from a chapel in Schildesche near Bielefeld , which was no longer used. The altar was probably made around 1680. It was completely restored for Paderborn by Johann Mühlenbein, Niedermarsberg , in 1951.

The Liborianum as an archbishop's seminary for boys

In 1847, the then bishop Franz Drepper decided to convert the Liborianum into an archbishop's seminary for boys . The aim of this boarding school was to encourage boys - especially from rural regions - to lead them to the priesthood .

Because students often only after the then usual eight-year " primary school entered the minor seminary," they were in-house courses on the visit to the nearby humanistic Gymnasium Theodorianum prepared, which then from the Obertertia (Class 9) to the upper sixth (Class 13 ) attended to graduate from high school . From 1961 also were Sextaner admitted to the minor seminary (from class 5), then all grade levels went through the high school Theodorianum.

In its prime, about 180 students attended the college.

The motto of the house is reproduced in a window picture in the central stairwell: It depicts a tree growing towards the sun. Underneath is the word CRESCIMUS , Latin for: "We are growing".

In 1945, at the invitation of Bishop Lorenz Jaeger, a convent of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration came to Olpe in the Liborianum. The complex, built in the 17th century as a Capuchin monastery, was once again a place of monastic life where work and prayer found a unity. The nuns supported since then the leadership of the House in administrative and liturgical duties.

The boys' seminar was closed in 1979 due to the steadily decreasing number of participants.

The Liborianum as an adult education center

Since then, the Liborianum has been converted into an educational facility “Liborianum. Education and guest house of the Archdiocese of Paderborn ”with offers for religious, theological, social and political education, also for Caritas . Employee training courses, guest meetings and conferences are also held there.

Well-known students of the Liborianum

literature

  • Eva-Maria Höper: Ambrosius von Oelde. An early Baroque Capuchin architect in the service of the Westphalian prince-bishops. Laumann-Verlag, Dülmen 1990, ISBN 3-87466-133-4 ( Rhenania Franciscana antiqua 5), (also: Münster (Westphalia), Univ., Diss., 1990).
  • Eva-Maria Höper: Ambrosius von Oelde. A Capuchin architect of the early Baroque in Westphalia. Landesbildstelle Westfalen, Münster 1992 ( Westphalia in the picture. Series: Westfälische Architekten 2).
  • Roland Pieper : Historical monasteries in Westphalia-Lippe. A travel guide. Ardey-Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-87023-244-7 , pp. 164-165 ( Kulturlandschaft Westfalen 7).
  • Franz Egon Schneider: The Episcopal Gymnasium Alumnate in Paderborn. Festschrift for the inauguration of the renovation and extension building in 1905. Paderborn 1905 ( digitized )
  • Wilhelm Tack: The reuse of a baroque altar made of shield ash in the Capuchin Church in Paderborn. In: Old and new art in the Archdiocese of Paderborn. Vol. 2, 1952, ISSN  0516-8252 , pp. 51-54.

Web links

Commons : Collegium Liborianum  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Son of Heinrich von der Horst († around 1586/87) zu Mydlinghoven and (⚭ 1552) Katharina von Binsfeld († around 1610), studied in Rome, canon since 1583, cathedral dean since 1590 and cathedral dean in Paderborn since 1626, founder of the Paderborn Capuchin Monastery (today: Collegium Liborianum) and a Capuchin monastery. His brother Rüdiger (Rutger) von der Horst († after 1610) was also a canon in Paderborn.
  2. ^ Liborianum: From Capuchin Monastery to Education House
  3. Ekkart Sauser:  HENGSBACH, Franz. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 19, Bautz, Nordhausen 2001, ISBN 3-88309-089-1 , Sp. 652-654.

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 15.6 "  N , 8 ° 45 ′ 30.5"  E