Charterhouse Maria Hain

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Charterhouse Maria Hain (around 1904)
Engraving of the Carthusian monastery Hain (before 1911)
Interior of the Hain Charterhouse (before 1911)
Carpentry of the Carthusian monastery near Düsseldorf, Erwin Quedenfeldt (1912)

Maria Hain was a Carthusian monastery in Düsseldorf-Unterrath that existed from 1869 to 1964 .

history

Since the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss of 1803, there was no more monastic settlement of the Carthusians in the area of ​​the later German Empire . Therefore, in 1869 the Hain manor near Düsseldorf was bought by the order. A new charterhouse was built on the site and settled with two choir monks and two lay brothers from the La Grande Chartreuse monastery . In the course of the Kulturkampf , the monastery had to be given up again in 1875, as all non-imperial monks were expelled from Germany. The monastery was repossessed by the convent in 1890 .

In 1908 there were seven choir monks, in 1920 there were 20 choir monks and five lay brothers. The monastery and monks' convent survived the Nazi era unscathed; their usefulness was recognized because of the extensive poor relief.

laying

The expansion of the city of Düsseldorf and the expansion of the airport in Lohausen disturbed the silence required for Carthusian monasteries. The convent therefore moved in 1964 to the Marienau Charterhouse near Marienau, which had been built since 1962 , a suburb of Bad Wurzach in Baden-Württemberg . The Hain monastery was profaned and then demolished. The bones of the deceased monks were reburied in Marienau. On the site of the Charterhouse , the large cloister, the church and the castle grove, the buildings of the airport's freight route are today .

Memorial

The small memorial site for the former Carthusian monastery of Maria Hain is located near the former Charterhouse in the Carthusian Park in Düsseldorf-Unterrath on Unterrather Straße. It consists of a 2.2 meter bronze statue of a Carthusian monastery made by the Düsseldorf sculptor Karl-Heinz Klein and a model of the former Carthusian monastery.

  • Memorial site in the Carthusian Park in Düsseldorf-Unterrath

  • The memorial is located in the Carthusian Park on Unterrather Straße.

  • The memorial consists of a 2.20-meter bronze statue and a model of the Charterhouse.

  • Bronze statue of a Carthusian monastery

  • Bronze statue of a Carthusian monastery

  • Model of the former Charterhouse

See also

literature

  • Matthias Wego: Maria Hain. The checkered history of the former Charterhouse in Düsseldorf ; Kevelaer 1991.
  • The house of silence . In: Die Neue Zeitung , 6./7. September 1952, A 4. (Eight annotated pictures about the daily routine of the monks.)
  • Hans Müller-Schlösser: In the Carthusian monastery near Düsseldorf. With eight illustrations based on original photographs. In: Reclams Universum 28.2 (1912), pp. 1227-1232.
  • Hubert Maria Blüm: Hain , in: Monasticon Cartusiense , ed. by Gerhard Schlegel, James Hogg, Volume 2, Salzburg 2004, 666–671.

Web links

Commons : Kartause Maria Hain  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Demolition of the Kartause Hain by Matthias Wego.
  2. ^ Great cloister, Carthusian monastery Hain in Düsseldorf-Unterrath. by Matthias Wego.
  3. ^ Memorial site "Carthusian Monastery Düsseldorf Unterrath" on the website of the sculptor

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '14.3 "  N , 6 ° 46' 51.6"  E