St. Gabriel Monastery (Munich)

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St. Gabriel Monastery, gate

The St. Gabriel Monastery belongs to the congregation of the " Sisters of the Good Shepherd ". It is located in the southernmost district of Munich, Solln, in the immediate vicinity of Gut Warnberg .

General

The founder of the “Sisters of the Good Shepherd” was Maria Euphrasia Pelletier . She was born on the French island of Noirmoutier in 1796 . In 1835 the Congregation "Our Lady of the Good Shepherd's Love" was confirmed as an independent order. In 1868 there were 16 religious provinces with 110 houses.

monastery

View from the south from Wolfratshauser Strasse, to the left of the Warnberg estate

The monastery in Munich was founded in 1840 by three nuns. It was the first monastery of the Shepherd Sisters in Germany. King Ludwig I provided an old site with a ruined castle in Haidhausen . In 1843 the first service was celebrated in the newly built neo-Gothic church. In 1844 there were 26 religious sisters. On October 30, 1965, the sisters moved to the new St. Gabriel monastery in Wolfratshauser Strasse.

Youth welfare

The youth welfare area in St. Gabriel consists of House Debora, the crèche , which conceptually belongs to House Debora, and the separately managed children's house. This has been a branch of the Zinneberg Castle facility in Glonn since autumn 2011 .

Special

The baby hatch in Munich, which is used for anonymous baby delivery, is unique. There is also a mother-and-child home (including a large playground), a foundation for the blind, a community college, a monastery hairdresser and a house in which sisters mainly turn to and support underage mothers.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The gateway to life in Munich. Sisters of the Good Shepherd Munich, accessed on August 27, 2018 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 3 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 11 ° 30 ′ 57 ″  E