Poor Clare Monastery Viehhausen
The Klarissenkloster Viehhausen was a Carmelite monastery in Viehhausen in Bavaria in the diocese of Regensburg, which existed from 1852 to 1975 . A Servite monastery was then set up in the building between 1978 and 1989 . Today the castle or former monastery building is used as a rectory.
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history
On September 7, 1848, Oberviehhausen Castle was auctioned by Friedrich Pustet, owner of the Alling paper mill . He offered the palace complex to the St. Klara Monastery in Regensburg for sale and the Poor Clares bought the property for 4,000 guilders. The abbess Antonia Späth of St. Klara Monastery gave up her position in Regensburg and became superior of the newly founded Viehhausen Monastery. On September 18, 1852 the superior moved into the monastery with four sisters, which was inaugurated on the same day by Bishop Valentin Riedel . In 1862 the convent had 12 members and one novice, around 1900 this number increased to 20.
The core of monastery life was internally the midnight choir prayer as well as frequent strict fasting and externally the education of children in a boarding school and a school. Another special feature was that the sisters were not housed in individual cells, but in a common room. This was criticized by Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey , who would have preferred it if each nun had her own cell. In 1856 the school in Viehhausen was partially taken over and the girls separated from the boys. A girls' school with sewing lessons and a boarding school was created, both of which were housed in the former castle building.
In 1854 the monastery acquired the Thalhof in order to secure the livelihood. At first it was managed by a farm farmer, leased to Franz Wolfseher in 1856 and sold to him in 1876. In addition, the nuns earned their living with handicrafts and at times with the production of a monastery bitter . In 1867 the sisters supported the building of a local church called “St. Leonhard ”by letting building land (the moat was filled in and the Zehentstadel demolished) and a financial donation of 1,500 guilders.
During the time of National Socialism , the sisters had to give up school service from 1938 to 1945, which was resumed in 1945. After a school was built in Viehhausen in 1952, the St. Josef retirement home with 12 single rooms for women was set up in the now vacant monastery building. After the Poor Clare monastery in Regensburg was closed in 1974, the Poor Clares in Viehhausen also gave up their monastery and moved to a newly built monastery in Dingolfing together with the Regensburg sisters .
Since the parish curate was already being looked after by the Fathers of the Servite Order , it was planned to build a novitiate and study house for the Order here. After extensive renovations, Bishop Rudolf Graber inaugurated a Servite monastery here on June 11, 1978. Father Bernhard M. Alpers, OSM, became the first prior. However, the order could not achieve the set goals in the long run and so the Servites left the monastery in Viehhausen in 1989.
literature
- Rudolf Ottinger: Sinzing. From the beginning to the present. Municipal administration Sinzing, ISBN 3-00-017520-2 , pp. 227–228 and pp. 235–236.