Monastery of Mary of the Angels (Bleijerheide / Kerkrade)
The Maria von den Engeln monastery is located in Bleijerheide, a district of Kirchrath in the Dutch province of Limburg on Pannesheiderstraße. It was built in 1891 as a neo-Gothic brick building and is a Dutch imperial monument (No. 513755). The patronage of the monastery church is "Our Lady of the Angels".
prehistory
Encouraged by his relative Franziska Schervier , Johann Philipp Martin Höver (1816–1864), who had been a member of the Third Order of St. Francis since 1855 , founded his own cooperative in Aachen in 1857 with the aim of looking after neglected young people. In 1861 the cooperative received the status of a diocesan congregation: The Brothers of the Poor of St. Francis (Latin: Congregatio Fratrum Pauperum Sancti Francisci, abbreviation: CFP). The parent company was in Aachen on Rütscherstrasse. As part of the Kulturkampf, the Monastery Act was passed in the Kingdom of Prussia in June 1875, which decreed the dissolution of all Catholic orders and congregations similar to that of orders within 6 months. The only exceptions to this were institutions that were exclusively dedicated to nursing.
History of the monastery
Johannes Höver's successor, brother Bonaventura Schaeben (1817–1882), was able to acquire a plot of land near the border in Bleijerheide, on which a first half-timbered building was erected in autumn 1876 and a second later. In September 30 boys moved in with some brothers from Aachen. In October 1877, the government finally closed both institutions in Aachen that the brothers ran, so that the entire community moved to Bleijerheide.
The general superior of the cooperative, Brother Massaeus Klein, designed the facility in its current form and directed the construction work. In the first phase of construction, a laundry room, linen room, tailor's workshop and bakery were set up on the ground floor, and 3 classrooms on the first floor. At the same time, construction of the Brothers House began and the chapel was consecrated in 1892. In 1896, the Juvenat ›Nazareth‹ was founded in extension buildings, and in 1910 a ›New Nazareth‹ due to a further increase in aspirants.
With the end of the Kulturkampf, the brothers were able to return to Aachen in the house on Rütscherstraße , but Bleijerheide remained the parent company and generalate for the branches, which are now in several countries, until 1932. From 1939 to 1958 it was the Provincial House of the Dutch Province. Since this had become too small in 1958, the congregation in Aachen took the monastery back into its department.
In 2008, the monastery was to the Society of St. Pius X. sold.
architecture
The neo-Gothic brick building had a U-shape like other cultural combat monasteries, consisting of a longer, north-south running central wing and in the north and south of two shorter building parts. The chapel forms the southern arm that runs parallel to the Pannesheiderstraat and connects directly to the central wing. It originally had its own entrance next to the monastery gate, but can now only be reached via this. The church is a hall church with a pentagonal choir closure and 5 pointed arched cross vaults under a gable roof. A roof turret sits at the transition between the monastery and church. The altars, the main altar and the side altars consecrated to Mary or Joseph are made of neo-Gothic wood carving.
The north wing, which originally housed the novitiate, was rebuilt in 1972, the third floor was demolished and a flat roof was added. It was demolished today (2019), as were all other outbuildings, including the Juvenate building.
Varia
The novel Het hout (2014) van Jeroen Brouwers is set in this monastery.
literature
- Rita Müllejans: Monasteries in the Kulturkampf (publications of the Episcopal Diocesan Archives Aachen, vol. 44). Einhard, Aachen 1992, ISBN 3-920284-63-1 .
- RJ Herpers, MNB Kockelkoren, J. Finger, NFG Frijns: Kerkrade, van dorp naar stad 1816–1998 . Kerkrade 1998, ISBN 90-702-4636-8 .
- Joh. J. Ros: Honderd Jaar - De broeders Franciskanen een eeuw in Bleyerheide . Bleijerheide 1976.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument number: 513755 Klooster der Broeders ( Dutch ) Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed. Retrieved June 12, 2019.
Coordinates: 50 ° 50 ′ 53.6 " N , 6 ° 4 ′ 20.4" E