Himmelspforten Monastery
| Himmelspforten Monastery | |
|---|---|
 Monastery church with convent buildings (right) and retreat home (far left) |
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| location | Mainaustraße 42, 97082 Würzburg |
| Lies in the diocese | Diocese of Würzburg |
| Coordinates: | 49 ° 48 '1.4 " N , 9 ° 54' 17.2" E |
| Patronage | Assumption of the Virgin Mary |
| founding year | 1231 under Bishop Hermann I of Lobdeburg by Cistercian women until 1253, then relocation from Himmelstadt to Himmelpforten near Würzburg |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1804 with the secularization |
| Year of repopulation | from 1844 Discalced Carmelites , part of the old monastery has been the training and retreat house of the Diocese of Würzburg since 1926 |
The Himmelspforten Monastery is a convent of Discalced Carmelites in the Würzburg district of Zellerau in the Diocese of Würzburg .
history
That the hll. Maria and Johannes Evangelist , a monastery consecrated to Nikolaus for some time , was founded as a monastery of the Cistercians in 1231 by the Bishop of Würzburg, Hermann I von Lobdeburg .
The original monastery was in Himmelstadt on the border with the neighboring municipality of Zellingen . He owned extensive estates and vineyards in and around Himmelstadt and manor buildings in the town center, some of which are still preserved. They have been repeatedly attacked and looted. For example, knight Herold von Zellingen illegally appropriated monastery property. Finally, in 1253, Bishop Herman von Lobdeburg ordered the relocation of the convent from Himmelstadt to Himmelpforten near Würzburg, which Pope Innocent IV approved in 1251. Up until the completion of the new monastery building, the nuns stayed at Schönau Monastery around 1248 .
The monastery church with the patronage of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary is one of the oldest Cistercian churches on German soil. Under Prince-Bishop Julius Echter von Mespelbrunn , the monastery flourished and was rebuilt several times.
The monastery was dissolved in 1804 in the course of secularization . A military hospital and later a tobacco factory were set up in the buildings. In 1844 Discalced Carmelites moved into the monastery; they have lived in a side annex since 1925. The sisters make candles, icons and paraments .
A part of the old monastery has been an educational and retreat home or house of the Diocese of Würzburg under the same name, Himmelspforten, since January 26, 1926 and was inaugurated by Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried . The facilities were badly damaged in World War II ; the north and west wings had to be removed. Bishop Josef Stangl inaugurated the completely renovated house in 1967. Another redesign and modernization, which carefully preserved the old structural evidence, was completed in 2005.
In the media
As the diocese's educational center, Himmelspforten is often the venue for church conferences. Closed meetings of the Permanent Council of the German Bishops' Conference take place there regularly . On July 15, 1998 the Colombian Peace Council and the liberation organization ELN concluded a peace agreement with the mediation of the Catholic Church in Himmelspforten, which among other things contains the waiver of kidnappings as a source of income. In March 2016, the Himmelspforten retreat house was mentioned several times in the media as a place of sexual abuse.
Picture gallery
The retreat house Himmelspforten next to the convent
Himmelspforten monastery church, convent building
Abbey church Himmelspforten, stair tower
Abbey church Himmelspforten, stair tower
Abbey church Himmelspforten, coffered ceiling
Monastery church Himmelspforten, organ
Web links
- Himmelspforten Monastery , basic data and history: Himmelspforten - From the Cisterze to the Carmel in the database Monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
- Homepage of the retreat house Himmelspforten
- Refurbishment project retreat home
- Homepage of the Carmelite Convent Himmelspforten
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive holdings: Himmelspforten, Kloster (1231-1781). MOM CA document archive, accessed on September 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Count Manegold von Wildberg transfers vineyards to Himmelspforten Monastery. MOM CA document archive, accessed on September 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Knight Herald von Zellingen damages Himmelspforten Abbey. MOM CA document archive, accessed on September 16, 2013 .
- ↑ | Relocation under Himmelstatdt
- ↑ Relocation of the Himmelspforten monastery. MOM CA document archive, accessed on September 16, 2013 .
- ^ Sybille Grübel: Timeline of the history of the city from 1814-2006. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. Volume 2, 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 1225-1247; here: p. 1238.
- ↑ Now the 44-year-old describes the case from her point of view. BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, accessed on May 19, 2019 .