Carmel St. Joseph (Bonn)

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Part of the cloister wall on the east side with access through a tower and a former farm building
The former monastery building adjoining the church of St. Adelheid am Pützchen (left)
former monastery gate on the west side, next to the church

The Carmel St. Joseph in the Bonn district of Pützchen-Bechlinghoven is a former monastery of the Discalced Carmelites . The convent building is currently part of a residential complex that was created as part of a communal housing project . It is located at Karmeliterstraße 1 and has been a listed building since 1998 .

history

After the relics of the first abbess of the St.-Adelheidis-Stift in Vilich , the holy one, were found during the wars of the 16th and 17th centuries ( Truchsessischer Krieg / Thirty Years War ) . Adelheid , which were lost, around 1650 the Adelheidis fountain in Pützchen became the destination of Adelheidis pilgrimages . The St. Adelheidis chapel built at the source was initially looked after by hermits (from 1679) . In 1688, the Elector Palatine Count Palatine Johann Wilhelm von Pfalz-Neuburg transferred this pilgrimage chapel to the Discalced Carmelites. Between 1703 and 1706, the General Commissioner of the Lower Rhine Province of the Carmelites, Father Florentius, had a convent built here after the moist terrain had been drained , which was later expanded to include the church of St. Adelheid am Pützchen . The founding convention consisted of twelve priests and four lay brothers. During the war in the 1790s, the monastery was used as a military hospital by the French army .

secularization

On September 12, 1803, the monastery was abolished as part of secularization , and in 1804 the Carmelites were expelled from the monastery. The mountain master and entrepreneur Leopold Bleibtreu acquired the monastery in 1825; in previous years he had already leased the facility. Bleibtreu had mined coal in the vicinity of the monastery and from 1805 first coked it here in Meilern and processed it into alum from 1806 . In 1847 the Prussian state bought the monastery back in order to maintain a correctional institution ("detention center for depraved women") here until 1863 .

Sanatorium Pützchen

In 1866 the doctor Leopold Besser rented the former monastery in order to build the “Private Insane Asylum Dr. Better ”to run a facility for the mentally ill. In 1873 the doctor bought the building. A fire in the mid-1880s severely damaged the monastery and the adjoining church. It was rebuilt by 1890. From then on, the doctor Alfred Peipers took over the management of the “Dr. Guddensche Heilanstalt "called facility, which were housed in the old monastery buildings as well as in numerous new buildings on an adjacent site.

Again a monastery

As a result, the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sacré-Cœur) acquired the monastery. In 1920 she and 24 boarding school students founded the Sankt-Adelheid-Gymnasium in part of the monastery complex , which in 1925 moved to a new building on Pützchens Chaussee. In 1926 the monastery was sold to the Discalced Carmelites from Cologne , who founded the Carmel of St. Joseph here . The first prioress of the convent was Sr. Maria von den Engeln Troost (1858–1934). In 1941 the Gestapo closed the monastery within a few hours and set up a reserve hospital unit on the premises as part of the "Pützchen reserve hospital". Shortly before the dissolution, fellow sisters who had been expelled from a Luxembourg convent were accepted. The sisters expelled from Pützchen founded a Carmel in Bütgenbach.

After the war, the Carmelites returned to Pützchen. The Karmel St. Gabriel in Hainburg was founded in Pützchen in 1948 and the Karmel Heilig Blut in Dachau in 1964 .

On February 11, 1949, the Catholic Bishops' Conference took place in Carmel under its chairman, Archbishop Joseph Frings of Cologne .

In 1998 the Carmelites sold the monastery in Pützchen and moved to Dorsten- Lembeck to found the Carmel of St. Michael. The Bonn monastery building had become too big for the convent, which consisted of eleven sisters and at that time had problems with young people. In the fall of 2013, the Dorsten community moved to the former Poor Clare Monastery in Milanstrasse 1/3 in Hanover.

Housing project

The monastery, with its approximately 11,000 square meter site, was acquired by an architect's office and is part of a communal living concept that consists of the old monastery and new buildings on the site. The construction work began in 1998. In August 2000, the project-supporting association “Joint Living Karmelkloster eV” was founded and the first 21 residential units in the old monastery building were completed. As a result, 16 cubic row houses were built in the monastery garden parallel to the monastery wall. Finally, by 2003, a block-and-frame apartment building was built for a further 21 parties in the east of the monastery garden. About 120 people live in the residential complex.

See also

Web links

Commons : Karmel St. Joseph (Bonn)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), p. 31, number A 3432
  2. ↑ a b c Rainer Schmidt, Monuments in Beuel: Gem behind old walls , November 11, 2015, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  3. ↑ JG Gentele, History of alum production in Germany, namely on the Rhine and comments on this , in: Der Bergwerksfreund, A newspaper for miners and smelters, for trades, as well as for all friends and promoters of mining and the same related trades , Volume 1, Georg Reichardt, Eisleben 1839, p. 490 f.
  4. ↑ Leif Kubik, Former asylum for the mentally ill at Pützchen: Monastery, prison and sanatorium , July 31, 2015, Bonner General-Anzeiger
  5. ^ Eduard Hegel and Wilhelm Neuss, The Archdiocese of Cologne between the Restoration of the 19th Century and the Restoration of the 20th Century, 1815–1962 , Volume 5 of: History of the Archdiocese of Cologne , JP Bachem, 1987, ISBN 978-3-76160- 8-739 , p. 316
  6. ^ School history on the website of the Sankt-Adelheid-Gymnasium in Bonn
  7. ↑ a b c About us , historical overview on the website of the Carmel St. Josef in Hanover
  8. ^ Edith Stein , Self-portrait in Letters, 1916–1942 , Volume 5 of: The Collected Works of Edith Stein , ISBN 978-0-93521-6-202 , ICS Publications, 1993, p. 199
  9. ↑ Edith Stein, Sister Teresia Benedicta a Cruce, philosopher and Carmelite: A picture of life, derived from memories and letters , Glock and Lutz, 1954, p. 221
  10. ↑ Helmut Vogt, Das 5. Luftschutzrevier von Bonn: Die Industriegemeinde Beuel in the bombing war , issue 29 of: Studies on the local history of the Bonn-Beuel district , City of Bonn, 1994, p. 38 f.
  11. ^ Edith Stein, Maria Amata Neyer (Ed.), Self-Portrait in Letters: T. 1933-1942, Volumes 2-4 of the complete edition, ISBN 978-3-45127-3-735 , Herder , 2000, p. 474
  12. ↑ Karmel ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2016 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. , Website of the municipality of Bütgenbach @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.butgenbach.be
  13. ↑ Sabine Müller, Carmelites of St. Gabriel leave Hainstadt: Monastery gate closes , August 27, 2014, OP-Online
  14. ^ Ernst Wolfgang Becker (Ed.), Theodor Heuss - Father of the Constitution: Two speeches in the Parliamentary Council on the Basic Law 1948/49, Stiftung-Bundespräsident-Theodor-Heuss-Haus, ISBN 978-3-59844-1-271 , p 133
  15. ↑ Intergenerational living in a Carmelite monastery: Bonn-Pützchen “Living together in the Karmelkloster” , Werkstatt-Stadt.de, Federal Institute for Building, Urban and Spatial Research in the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 39 ″  N , 7 ° 9 ′ 0.1 ″  E