Fockenfeld Monastery
Fockenfeld Monastery is a monastery of the Oblates of St. Franz von Sales in Fockenfeld near Konnersreuth ( Tirschenreuth district ) in the Diocese of Regensburg . The St. Josef late vocational school (humanistic grammar school) with an attached late vocational seminar is located in the monastery. On January 15, 2018, the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales announced that the school would be closed at the end of the 2020/21 school year.
history
From 1362 to 1556 belonged Good Fockenfeld the vast land of the Cistercian - waldsassen abbey until Elector Ottheinrich was of Wittelsbach, who had joined the Protestant denomination, secularized. Partial sales reduced the size of the property belonging to it. The Fockenfeld estate was bought by Lienhard Sölch from a Sölch family (Seelch, Salich, etc.) who had lived in Konnersreuth since 1456.
The Thirty Years' War brought devastation, the buildings were looted by Swedish Protestant troops and set on fire in 1645. Around 1680, at the time of the Counter Reformation , the desolate building complex and the fallow fields came back into the ownership of the Waldsassen monastery. Abbot Alexander Vogel had the central part of Fockenfeld expanded into a castle as a summer residence in 1750 , and the farm was retained. In 1768, under Abbot Wigand Deltsch , the ballroom was completed with the Last Supper designed by Elias Dollhopf .
After secularization in Bavaria , the Fockenfeld palace and estate were auctioned off in 1803 and came into private ownership. On the initiative and with a financial contribution of the mystic Therese Neumann , the Fockenfeld castle and estate were bought by the manufacturers Karl and Louis Bahner from Oberlungwitz in Saxony around 1950 . The Roman Catholic Order of the Sales Oblates had the potato fields and vegetable gardens of the estate converted into green areas, the stables for the livestock and the riding horses converted into living spaces, the castle part with the ballroom renovated and extensive outbuildings with a church room added. In 1955 he built a private humanistic grammar school for boys with boarding school and a late vocational school for the priestly profession and founded the Fockenfeld monastery.
On May 28, 1994, at a meeting of the Sölch from the former Egerland in Konnersreuth in the Fockenfeld monastery, a memorial service was held for the numerous participating families and their descendants.
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the late vocational school, the Regensburg diocesan bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller held a pontifical service with the students, employees and friends of the house on Sunday, April 2nd, 2006. The next day, former students celebrated another service together with regional dean Monsignor Johann Schober.
Around 350 priestly vocations had emerged from the late vocational school by the 60th anniversary day. The most famous graduates include the retired Augsburg diocesan bishop and former German military bishop, Walter Mixa (Abitur 1964) and the Regensburg Auxiliary Bishop Reinhard Pappenberger (Abitur 1979).
Currently, 23 students (as of 2016/17) are attending the late vocational school Fockenfeld, which has been taught in four classes by around ten teachers since the transition to the eight-year high school. The school has been run by Albert Bauer since 2013. The permanent deputy head of the school is the sales oblate P. Friedhelm Czinczoll OSFS.
The core subjects in the school are Catholic religious studies and the languages Latin and Ancient Greek. School education also includes teaching of new languages and science. Working groups such as choir, school, theater, linguistics or the school newspaper complete the training offer.
literature
- Detlef Knipping, Gabriele Raßhofer: Tirschenreuth district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume III.45 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Lindenberg im Allgäu 2000, ISBN 3-87490-579-9 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Sölch from Zettendorf, Eger district in Bohemia . German Gender Book Volume 214 (58th General Volume) CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 2002; ISBN 3-7980-0214-2 , p. 1025
- ^ According to the greeting from Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller in the Fockenfeld anniversary brochure
Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 56 ″ N , 12 ° 14 ′ 13.2 ″ E