Mariannhiller missionaries
The Congregation of Missionaries of Mariannhill ( Latin : Congregatio Missionarium de Mariannhill ; order abbreviation : CMM ), colloquially Mariannhiller Missionaries , is a Roman Catholic male order that is mainly active in the Africa mission and in development aid.
origin
Mariannhill Monastery is a former Trappist monastery and today's seat of the Mariannhill missionaries near Pinetown near Durban in South Africa .
The Trappist monastery was founded in 1882 as Mariannhill (Maria Anna Hill) monastery near the port city of Durban by Abbot Franz Pfanner . In 1909 Pope Pius X separated the monastery from the Trappist order and gave way to the foundation of the Mariannhill missionaries.
Since its founding, brothers of the community in Europe have maintained contact with friends and supporters of missionary work. So it was soon possible to set up two agencies in Würzburg and Cologne . In 1911 the first training houses for the community were built in Europe. The St. Josef Mission House was opened in Reimlingen in 1920, primarily for the formation of brothers .
Institutions and monasteries
Piusseminar in Würzburg
As early as 1882 a collective brother of the missionaries was living in the rectory of St. Peter in the Würzburg Sander district . The Mariannhiller then acquired their own building in Reibeltgasse in 1889, but sold it again in order to acquire a larger one on Pleicher Ring (today Röntgenring 3), where the generalate of the congregation had its seat from 1930. In 1927 the construction of a seminary for the community began in Würzburg. The anti-church politics of National Socialism and the consequences of the Second World War hampered the development of the congregation. After the war, however, the congregation was able to gain a foothold again with the reconstruction.
The Piusseminar with the Herz-Jesu-Kirche , which helped shape the cityscape of Würzburg , the monastery church on the Mönchberg planned by Albert Boßlet , was completed in Würzburg in 1929 and inaugurated as a seminary for the community by Bishop Matthias Ehrenfried . In the meantime, the religious students from Germany, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and the USA set off from here to study theology at the Julius Maximilians University . Even today, the house at Mariannhillstrasse 1 is the seat of priest training for the German Province. The missionaries who work overseas maintain contact with the German headquarters of the congregation.
The Mariannhill missionaries who live and work here a. as pastor, hospital chaplain, retreat leader, leader of prayer groups and as confessional chaplain. The novitiate (training for the young missionaries from Germany and Poland) has also been housed in the house for several years.
The eye-catching tower of the Piusseminar houses a museum that gives an insight into the work of the missionaries of Mariannhill. The Piusseminar also includes:
- the seat of the German order leadership;
- the mission dispatch, the donation management,
- the administration of Mariannhill magazine and
- of the Mariannhiller mission calendar.
Mission house in Reimlingen
The St. Josef Mission House in Reimlingen , near Nördlingen , was built in 1920. The task has always been to receive and train brothers. For the mission and home, the brothers were trained in the monastery's own factories and workshops as carpenters, shoemakers, locksmiths, tailors, gardeners, printers, typesetters, bookbinders, bakers and farmers. In addition, there is a third generation in the mission house with brother Wolfgang Hainz, a naturopath. Since 1980 the mission house has also housed a retirement and nursing home for members of the order in need of care. The so-called youth rooms are available to youth groups as well as groups who want to hold courses here on their own. The order's own print shop existed from 1999 to September 30, 2012.
Mönchsdeggingen Monastery
In 1951, the Mönchsdeggingen monastery near Nördlingen was acquired as a novitiate for the prospective priests. The Generalate, which has been based in Rome since 1970, was also housed here.
High school in Maria Veen
In 1952, a former Trappist monastery in Maria Veen ( Reken ) in the Münsterland was acquired, expanded into a school and opened as a grammar school in 1958. Around 600 girls and boys are now attending the Mariannhill Missionaries' grammar school. In the adjoining youth education center, u. a. “Days of religious orientation” and weekends for reflection are offered.
Eight missionaries from Mariannhill live in the Maria Veen Mission House. You perform a variety of tasks. For example, they work as religious teachers and school chaplains. You work as a pastor for the handicapped, as a pastor in the parish and as a vice-official at the marriage court of the diocese of Münster .
School center at Schloss Riedegg
In 1936 the Mariannhill missionaries bought Riedegg Castle near Gallneukirchen in Upper Austria . The missionaries built a school center with a grammar school and an African mission museum in Riedegg. The Polytechnic School of Gallneukirchen is housed in the castle.
Benefit house near Maria Beinberg
From 1947 to 2014 Mariannhiller missionaries were entrusted with the service of beneficiaries on Maria Beinberg .
Aloysianum in Lohr am Main
The Aloysianum, a boarding school and study seminar for the Mariannhill missionaries in Lohr am Main , was built in 1910–1911 by a Konviktsgesellschaft under the leadership of the Mariannhill missionary Father Notker Vorspel. In 1914 it was renamed the Aloysianum student home. With the exception of the period between 1939 and 1948, when it was used, among other things, as a military hospital , the Aloysianum housed up to 150 students. In 2003 the boarding school was closed. In the following period the building was converted into a residential complex.
General Superior
The superiors general are elected by the general chapters, which usually meet every six years.
- 1920–1926 Adalbero Fleischer
- 1926–1930 Hermann Arndt
- 1932–1957 Reginald Weinmann (* 1889; † 1961)
- 1957–1972 Ferdinand Holzner
- 1973–1979 Pius Rudlof
- 1979–1990 Fridolin Zueger (* 1922/23; † April 21, 2015 in the St. Franziskus nursing home in Menzingen )
- 1990-2002 Yves La Fonteine
- 2002–2004 Dieter Gahlen (* 1948; † January 25, 2004 in Rome )
- since June 2, 2004: Damian Weber (born March 3, 1942 in Chur )
See also
The corresponding women's orders: Missionary Sisters of the Precious Blood .
Web links
- Missionaries from Mariannhill. German Province: Website of the German Province of Mariannhill Missionaries .
- Congregation of the Missionaries of Mariannhill: Website of the Missionaries of Mariannhill (English)
- High school of the Mariannhiller Missionaries in Maria Veen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. 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. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 455–458: The Church Development under Bishop Ferdinand Schlör (1898–1924). P. 457.
- ↑ Germany: Maria Beinberg and the Missionaries of Mariannhill ( Memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - (Network Africa Germany eV)
- ^ Aloysianum, Lohr - Historik. In: www.aloysianum.de. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Generalate ( Dutch ) August 2013. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
- ↑ http://wp.sanktjosef.ch/generalammlung-2015/