Arenberg Monastery
The Arenberg Monastery is the motherhouse of the Arenberg Dominican Sisters, sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in the Order of St. Dominic . According to their own statement, the women religious want to “ shape their everyday life in the community through the power of the Gospel ” and be open to people who are looking for peace and quiet. Therefore, the monastery in the Koblenz district and pilgrimage site Arenberg includes a guest house and a wide range of educational opportunities.
Since 2002, the Arenberg Abbey and the pilgrimage site, as the northernmost point, have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley .
history
Pastor Johann Baptist Kraus , who had the pilgrimage complexes later named after him, the Pfarrer-Kraus-Anlagen , built, had a small monastery built in 1864. In 1868 he brought two sisters from Switzerland to Arenberg, who were supposed to live there, maintain the facilities and take on social tasks in the community, after Pope Pius IX had approved the establishment of a monastery aimed at schools and nursing. Also in 1868 Anna Maria Josepha Willimann came to Arenberg, who had worked as a cloister porter in Switzerland. A little later she received the religious name Maria Cherubina. She later signed "Cherubine".
Within the order and among the Arenberg sisters there were tensions between the followers of an exclusively contemplative way of life and those who saw their task primarily in social work. These disputes, which threatened to fail the monastery, ultimately led to the Arenberg monastery becoming independent and Bishop Michael Felix Korum appointing sister Cherubine Willimann as prioress. Under Sister Cherubine, the monastery grew and established branches. Cherubine Willimann died on December 18, 1914 at the age of 72. A short time later, the Arenberg Monastery had 42 branches in addition to the parent company.
description
The sisters ran a Kneipp sanatorium in their buildings for around 50 years before they redesigned it in the early 2000s as a place for religious contemplation, combined with medical treatments and cures , educational and recreational offers. There is a wellness area with swimming pool and sauna, groups for gymnastic exercises, dew-stepping and aqua fitness . One can take part in the prayer hours of the Dominican Sisters and have personal discussions with them if necessary. The monastery library is also accessible to guests.
In the summer there is an annual concert with performances of church music and choirs from different epochs, which integrates the church of the Arenberg Dominican Sisters' monastery as well as the pilgrimage church of St. Nicholas . The outdoor facilities are illuminated for this festival.
To the west of the mother house of the Dominican Sisters there is an extensive park and a herb garden . If interested, the sisters explain the plants and offer tea. For the insects attracted by the flowering plants, an insect hotel , a nesting aid construction on several levels, was built. There are also showcases for beekeeping as well as honey from the monastery .
A second Lourdes grotto with a resting place and statue of the Virgin Mary has been recreated on the western border of the park, which turns into orchards high above the Rhine Valley , a counterpart to the one in the Pfarrer-Kraus grounds.
organ
The organ of the monastery church was built in 1996 by the Freiburg organ construction company Hartwig Späth (March-Hugstetten). The instrument has 25 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
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See also
literature
- Silvia Maria Busch: The Grail Temple Idea and Industrialization. St. Nicholas of Arenberg. A pilgrimage site of the Catholic Late Romanticism in the Rhineland (1845–1892). Diss. Univ. Frankfurt. - Frankfurt a. M .: Art History Institute of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University 1984 (= Frankfurt Fundamentals of Art History, Volume IV).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rhenish history . Retrieved May 20, 2016.
- ↑ More information about the organ
Coordinates: 50 ° 22 ′ 10 ″ N , 7 ° 39 ′ 18 ″ E