Neunburg Abbey in front of the forest

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Neunburg Abbey in front of the forest
Former monastery church with secularized apse (right)

The Neunburg vorm Wald monastery is a former Franciscan monastery and founding house of the Order of the Poor School Sisters in the Bavarian city of Neunburg vorm Wald in the diocese of Regensburg .

history

Former Franciscan monastery

The monastery consecrated to Franziskus Seraphicus was founded in 1722 by Elector Maximilian II Emanuel of Bavaria at the request of the citizens of Neunburg. It was above all the family of the local district court administrator Balthasar Bachmayer († 1716), " the order of great lovers and haters ", whose son Anselm was a Franciscan priest in Cham and who was then to become the first guardian in Neunburg. The family had also made their house available for the hospice to be established. First a hospice , from 1725 it became a convent . As a church, the Franciscans were initially given the cemetery church St. Jakob, built in 1601, and as a monastery building they received the cavalry barracks, which was abandoned in 1719. Here they soon began building a new church, which was completed in 1725. The convent grew to a stately size, in 1762 there were 16 fathers and 9 lay brothers here. A brewery was also operated, which was continued by the later successors until the beginning of the First World War. The fathers supported the city pastor with sermons, confession and giving communion , and the pilgrimages and processions they carried out were numerous. They had also taken over the "leadership of the soul" in the neighboring Dominican convent in Schwarzhofen .

The monastery was dissolved in 1802 in the course of secularization in Bavaria. In order not to cause unrest in the population, the monks had to leave the city before daybreak for the central or death monastery in Neuburg an der Donau . Church, monastery and furnishings were sold. The chancel of the church was sold to the neighboring property, so that today's altar is in the nave and the chancel is separated from the nave by a wall, a pharmacy and a residential building have been set up in the church choir. Several monastery buildings were demolished in 1926 and a girls' school was later built in their place.

Convent of the Poor School Sisters

The teacher Karolina Gerhardinger founded the Order of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady in Neunburg vorm Wald in 1833 .

Since the magistrate of her place of birth, Stadtamhof, was against founding a monastery for financial reasons, Karolina Gerhardinger moved with two companions to Neunburg vorm Wald on October 24, 1833, to lead a monastic life there. After initial difficulties, King Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786–1868) gave the sovereign approval of the monastic institute in March 1834.

On November 16, 1835, Karolina Gerhardinger made her temporary profession in the St. Gallus Chapel in Regensburg . She took the religious name Maria Theresa of Jesus and became superior of the newly founded Institute Mother Theresa. As in Stadtamhof, in Neunburg vorm Wald the school she runs became known as a “model school” thanks to its holistic educational concept. The curricula already included modern object lessons, home economics and business subjects, foreign languages, arts education and gymnastics.

Karolina Gerhardinger soon realized that the small monastery in Neunburg vorm Wald could not serve as the motherhouse for her growing community in the long term. The former monastery of the Poor Clares on the Anger in the state capital Munich was more in line with their ideas for the training of the young sisters. In 1843 King Ludwig I left the Angerkloster to her - subject to state ownership and the obligation of the institute to assume the costs of the renovation. In the same year she founded the forerunner institutions of what would later become the Specialized Academy for Social Pedagogy of the Poor School Sisters of Our Lady.

The Neunburg vorm Wald monastery remained an important institution within the order.

present

In the monastery building in Neunburg there is mostly the Theresia-Gerhardinger-Haus , a day-care center with a crèche , kindergarten and after-school care center . Parts of the monastery building still serve as a monastery for the order of the poor school sisters. Services and concerts take place regularly in the renovated monastery church.

photos

  • Altar of the monastery church

  • Neunburg Abbey in front of the forest

  • Baroque altarpiece in the Theresia Gerhardinger House

literature

  • Klaus Unterburger: Baroque Catholicism. Strategies of pastoral care and the Christianization of the population in the Franciscan monastery Neunburg vorm Wald in the 18th century. In Tobias Appl; Manfred Knedlik (Ed.), Upper Palatinate Monastery Landscape. The monasteries, monasteries and colleges of the Upper Palatinate. Pp. 258 - 265. Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7917-2759-2 .

Web links

Commons : Theresia-Gerhardinger-Haus (Neunburg vorm Wald)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Maria Theresia Gerhardinger. Poor School Sisters, accessed October 1, 2018 .
  2. ^ Theresia-Gerhardinger-Haus. Retrieved October 1, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: Jubilee in the monastery of the poor . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed October 5, 2018]).

Coordinates: 49 ° 20 '54.9 "  N , 12 ° 23' 23.59"  O