Sacred Heart Monastery (Düsseldorf)

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Sacred Heart Monastery (Düsseldorf)
Monastery with monastery church at Kaiserstraße 40
Monastery with monastery church at Kaiserstraße 40
location Düsseldorf-Pempelfort
Lies in the diocese Archdiocese of Cologne
Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '56.9 "  N , 6 ° 46' 48.7"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 13 '56.9 "  N , 6 ° 46' 48.7"  E
Patronage Sacred Heart of Jesus
founding year 1871 by Poor Clares (until 2000)
Cistercian since October 28, 2004
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		2013
Mother monastery Cistercian Abbey of Sostrup , Denmark (dissolved in 2013)
Congregation Bohemian Cistercian Congregation (dissolved in 2014)

The Herz-Jesu-Kloster in Düsseldorf is a former Clarissian monastery in the Pempelfort district of Düsseldorf . It existed from 1871 to 2000 and is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus . In 2004 the monastery was settled by Cistercian women from the Danish Sostrup Abbey , which was dissolved in 2013 after scandals. The sisters who remained in Düsseldorf after the dissolution have separated from the Cistercian order and belong to the so-called Claraval sisters , a nascent religious community with an unclear orientation.

monastery

The Sacred Heart Monastery was built between 1861 and 1865 by the Franciscan Paschalis Gratze as a Poor Clare monastery. In 1871 the building was occupied by the Poor Clares of the reformed branch of the Colet women who had settled in Düsseldorf in 1859. The restoration of the order of the Poor Clares, which has largely disappeared since secularization, was largely based on the two new foundations of the Colet women in Düsseldorf and Münster (1857). During the Kulturkampf in Prussia, when between 1875 and 1887 all Roman Catholic orders with the exception of the pure nursing orders had to leave the country, the Dusseldorf Poor Clares moved to a quarter in Harreveld near Winterswijk in the Netherlands, which was managed by the Franciscans of the alternative establishment there Saxon Franciscan Province took over. In addition to several Poor Clare monasteries in North America, the monasteries in Bocholt (1898), Cologne-Kalk (1918) and Bad Neuenahr (1920) were founded from Düsseldorf . The last three sisters moved to the Clariss monastery in Cologne-Kalk at the beginning of 2000 due to their age, thus ending the 140-year presence of their order in the city. In February 2013 the Cologne monastery was also given up due to a lack of young people and the remaining sisters moved to the Clariss monastery in Kevelaer .

The takeover of the abandoned monastery in Düsseldorf by the Cistercian women from Denmark, many of whom came from Germany and four from the Archbishopric of Cologne , was initiated in April 2000 by Cologne Archbishop Joachim Cardinal Meisner , who gave the sisters the vacant complex during a visit to Sostrup offered. On October 29, 2002 he laid the foundation stone for the renovation of the monastery building and the construction of a new guest house; At the end of 2004 the first four nuns came to Pempelfort. The Sostruper Cistercian Sisters set up a postulate and a novitiate in the Düsseldorf monastery, which had the status of a residence under the law of the order . The branch belonged to the Bohemian Cistercian Congregation of the "Purest Heart of Mary", Latin Congregatio Purissimi Cordis BMV , which was also dissolved in 2014 by decree of the Holy See .

At the moment 17 sisters of different nationalities live in the convent of the Herz-Jesu-Kloster in Düsseldorf. Follow the Rule of St. Benedict and belong to a papal unrecognized community, whose core consists of the remains of the supporters of the 2011 remote Abbess of Sostrup comes the Dutch-German from a known business family and after their escape from the Order its own headquarters in Spain founded Has. Their community consists of a total of 64 sisters who lead a contemplative life in Gandía in the province of Valencia (18 sisters), in Pachacútec in the diocese of Callao in Peru (29 sisters) and in Düsseldorf , making icons , candles and anvil cloths . The Düsseldorf monastery is not recognized as a religious establishment in the Archdiocese of Cologne (status: 2019); however, the property belongs to the archbishopric, which apparently lets women live there rent-free. The community is certified to have a close relationship with the Neocatechumenal Movement (NK Movement), which comes from Spain and is broadly anchored in the diocesan structures in Cologne and Callao; she is supported by church dignitaries close to the NK such as Paul Josef Cordes or the local bishop of Callao, José Luis del Palacio , a long-time NK functionary, who also uses her in the field of family pastoral care.

Monastery church

Altar with choir stalls
View to the organ gallery

The monastery church was built in the neo-Romanesque style next to the Poor Clare Monastery in 1865/66 . It is a single-nave, three-bay building with a choir closure and groin vault on parabolic shield arches. The church is a typical Franciscan complex in the tradition of the mendicant churches , without a tower , only with a roof turret with a bell. The bell is rung by hand from the center of the nave with a cord of bells . The chapel stands parallel to Düsseldorf's Kaiserstraße . It was restored in 1956, renovated again in 2000 after the Poor Clares moved out, and is still used today by the sisters living in the monastery.

literature

Web links

Commons : Klarissenkloster Düsseldorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Clemens von Looz-Corswarem : Herz-Jesu-Kapelle (Poor Clare Monastery, Pempelfort). In: also with Benedikt Mauer (Ed.), Peter Henkel (Red.): The large Düsseldorf-Lexikon. Greven Verlag, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-7743-0485-7 , p. 322 ( reading sample , PDF; 2.2 MB).
  3. ↑ Carolin Weichselgartner: Poor Clares. In: Historisches Lexikon Bayerns , published on August 4, 2014.
  4. ↑ Hans-Georg Aschoff : From the Kulturkampf to the First World War. In: Joachim Schmiedl (Ed.) From Kulturkampf to the beginning of the 21st century (= History of the Saxon Franciscan Province , Volume 3). Schöningh, Paderborn 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76991-6 , pp. 23-287; Klaus Unterburger, review on H-Soz-Kult , March 23, 2012.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Augustyn , Ingeborg Bähr, Dieter Berg , Reimund Haas , Gerard P. Freeman, Marie-Luise Heckmann , Roland Pieper , Esther Pia Wipfler: Franziskaner, Franziskanerinnen. In: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte , Volume X (2006/2009), Sp. 453–556; Online version from October 26, 2019.
  6. ↑ Entry of the Clariss Monastery in Cologne-Kalk on Orden online (status: 2013).
  7. ↑ Elenchus Monasteriorum Ordinis Cisterciensis (Directory of Cistercian Monasteries), edition of May 28, 2018, p. 41.
  8. ↑ Order of women in the Archdiocese of Cologne on the Archdiocese's website, checked on August 10, 2019.
  9. ↑ Jordana Schmidt : Giving away duck. Walking barefoot to myself. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-62936-5 , p. 174.
  10. ↑ Kim Schou: Hvad skete der egentlig på Sostrup monastery? In: Kristeligt Dagblad August 30, 2013, accessed August 10, 2019 (Danish).
  11. ↑ Paul Josef Cardinal Cordes : Three Popes. My life. Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau 2014, ISBN 978-3-451-80169-3 , p. 299.
  12. ↑ Jordana Schmidt: Giving away duck. Hamburg 2015, p. 168.
  13. ↑ PJ Ginés: “Mi sueldo son 70 euros al mes, y aún invito a comer a alcaldes, para ver si evangelizo alejados”. In: Religión en Libertad , December 16, 2014, accessed August 10, 2019 (Spanish).