Katharinenhof Kranenburg

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The convent building of the Katharinenhof
Marked as a memorial and a brief description on the outer wall of the Katharinenhof
former Rector's House

The Katharinenhof in Kranenburg housed a convent of sisters from 1446 to 1802 . After various temporary uses, the building has served as a museum since 1961.

history

Sisters' Convention

In 1445 Henrik Housteen, the Duke's kitchen master, donated a house to the sister convent in Kleve on Mühlenstrasse in Kranenburg to establish a branch, which was set up with the ducal approval the following year. In 1472 the Kranenburg sisters adopted the Augustine Rule . In 1802 the Katharinen monastery was secularized .

Use after 1802

After the abolition of the convent, the monastery buildings were temporarily used for police purposes and were eventually converted into a school building. During the Third Reich they housed a kindergarten of the National Socialist People's Welfare . After the Second World War , the only slightly damaged old convent building served as an emergency church for several years. In 1959/60 it was thoroughly renovated.

The Katharinenhof Museum has been housed here since 1961 and is operated by the Association for Heimatschutz 1922 eV Kranenburg . With the addition of the Katharinenhof community center, which opened in 1984, the museum's exhibition area was expanded.

See also

literature

  • Manuel Hagemann: The sister convent St. Katharina. In: History in the Tower. Catalog for the local history exhibition in the Mühlenturm Kranenburg. Association for Homeland Security, Kranenburg 2006, pp. 107–124.

Web links

Commons : Katharinenhof Kranenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 47 ′ 20 ″  N , 6 ° 0 ′ 28 ″  E