Ohrbeck Monastery
Ohrbeck Monastery is a branch of the Franciscans (OFM) in Holzhausen , a district of Georgsmarienhütte in the district of Osnabrück (Lower Saxony). The order of the Franciscans and the Diocese of Osnabrück operate the educational facility and home folk high school "Haus Ohrbeck" in the monastery .
history
After the end of the First World War , the desire for a Franciscan monastery in their area grew in the Catholic population of the Holzhausen and Ohrbeck farming communities. In 1916, the farmer Poggemann provided a four-hectare forest area on the slope of the Boberg on the border with Holzhausen. In the same year the government of Prussia gave the approval for the construction of the monastery. The first Franciscans came to Ohrbeck on June 18, 1918 and moved into a wooden barrack in August 1919. The retreat house, monastery and monastery church were completed in 1926 according to plans by the architect Johannes Nellesen from Münster . The Osnabrück Bishop Hermann Wilhelm Berning consecrated the monastery church on September 22nd, 1929 Antonius of Padua . During the time of National Socialism , the monastery was targeted by the state. The secret state police seized the monastery in 1941 and drove the religious. The retreat house was used as an emergency hospital from 1942 after the former municipal hospitals in Osnabrück had been damaged by bombing. After the end of the Second World War in 1945 the Franciscans returned and the retreat house served as a hospital until 1953. The confiscation of the monastery was officially lifted in 1951.
The "Haus Ohrbeck" , a Catholic educational institution, has been located in the north-western part of the monastery building since 1971. In 1974 the Lower Saxony Ministry of Education recognized it as a folk high school. The founder and first director (until 1983) of the house of Ohrbeck was the provincial superior of the Saxon Franciscan province P. Dr. Constantin Pohlmann , OFM. In 1987 an extension was built for the educational facility.
Buildings
- The monastery church, a neo-baroque domed structure, was built from sandstone on the model of the church of Sant 'Agnese in Agone on Piazza Navona in Rome. The mural of the crucified Christ from 1997 behind the altar comes from the painter Hermann Gottfried from Herkenrath . The Osnabrück sculptor Ludwig Nolde created the devotional image "God and Sin". The baptistery is decorated with the Corpus Christi from 1929, created by the Osnabrück sculptor Krieger.
- The monastery building, in the north-western part of which the folk high school is located, is a two-story building.
- The retreat house has two and three floors with a mansard roof .
- The Maria Waldrast chapel between the monastery church and the retreat house was built in 1932.
literature
- Gerd-Ulrich Piesch: Monasteries and monasteries in the Osnabrück region. Steiner + Schnell, Regensburg 2006, ISBN 3-7954-1737-6 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 20.3 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 19 ″ E