Lohhof Monastery

Lohhof east side, the large Red Cross reminds of the war time when the monastery was a hospital.

The Lohhof Monastery is located in Lohhof , a district of Mindelheim on Bundesstraße 16 .

history

The Lohhof, first mentioned in 1445, came into the possession of Christoph Fugger in 1616, became a stud, and in 1699 became the property of the Bavarian Duke Maximilian Philipp . In 1706 it came as a gift to the English Misses in Mindelheim and in 1814 it was privately owned.

Around 1900 the need for care for orphans and school education for girls grew, as did the number of women applicants for monastery life. For many it meant a social advancement, so that the applicants had to be put on waiting lists. In this context, the monastery complex soon proved to be too small, so that the management of the monastery decided in 1902 to purchase the Lohhof to build a monastery building with an orphanage next to the manor. The purchase price was 100,000 Reichsmarks. The new construction of the monastery, church and orphanage took place between 1903 and 1907. The client was prioress M. Ludwiga Nickl. She commissioned the Munich architect Hans Schurr (1864–1934) for the construction. As a representative of historicism, Schurr was able to deliver architectural designs of all common styles, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque. At the request of the order, the monastery was to be built in the neo-Romanesque style based on the model of the Dominican convent in Regensburg . The three structures, church, orphanage and monastery were located in a square complex with a monastery garden and cloister in the middle. In addition, walls, arches, grilles, doors, windows, ribbons and stairwells were also designed in Art Nouveau style. Decor and jewelry from this period are rich and fully preserved. Church, nurses' choir, communion hall, chapter house and refectory are lined up in a row, increasing their effect to form a unique ensemble.

From 1939 to 1944 war refugees were housed in the Lohhof, from 1942 to 1945 the monastery was an auxiliary hospital and from 1945 to 2001 there was a nursing home here. After the Dominican Sisters left the monastery in 2001, Augsburger Lehmbau e. V., Society for Education and Work, the Lohhof.

Addiction cessation facility

Since the summer of 2007, Kompass drug help has been housed with a weaning facility in the east wing of the monastery building. At Lohhof, it offers an orientation towards one's own skills. 25 women and men usually live for six months in the Lohhof, who are accompanied by almost 20 full-time, part-time and voluntary helpers.

Since the beginning of 2012, another help service has been created in the west wing, a facility for people with multiple impairments.