St. Josef Monastery (Aiterhofen)
The St. Josef Monastery in Aiterhofen houses the generalate and mother house of the Franciscan Sisters of Penance - better known as the Franciscan Sisters of Aiterhofen .
history
The foundation of the monastery was approved by King Ludwig I on April 26, 1846 . The founder of the order, Angela Fraundorfer , exchanged a field of her family for a building site in the parish garden of Aiterhofen with the pastor Stummer. On April 20, 1847, the foundation stone was laid for the first house, which could finally be occupied on November 7, 1848. In 1852 an economic building was acquired, which ensured the economic independence of the monastery community - in 1860 the house was expanded and a chapel was added .
In 1935, the first sisters left for Brazil and founded various branches there. In 1955, Brazil became the province of Santa Clara .
The National Socialists confiscated the monastery in 1941. During the Second World War , the monastery served as a military hospital . A restart with three grades girls middle school, there was 1946. 1962 was the Angela-Fraundorfer Secondary School , a girls' secondary school with an attached boarding school , founded. Since 2014 boys have also been admitted to secondary school. The school has now been accepted as a candidate for UNESCO schools and now has around 300 students.
In addition, a vocational school for geriatric care and geriatric care help belong to the sponsorship of the monastery. It has existed since 1985, first as a technical school, then since 2003 as a vocational school. Generalist nursing training will also be introduced here from 2020.
Since July 2019 part of the former boarding school has been leased to Malteser Hilfsdienst gGmbH . In addition to the administration, there are accompanying seminars for volunteers in the BFD and FSJ , as well as training qualifications for first aid courses .
Monastery life today
Today (2019) 35 sisters live in the Aiterhofen monastery and 48 in Brazil, Bolivia and Mozambique and run the following facilities:
- Franciscan youth center
- Angela Fraundorfer Secondary School for girls and boys
- Boarding school for girls at the Angela Fraundorfer Realschule
- Parament and flag embroidery
- Vocational school for elderly care
- Pastoral work and help for the poorest in Brazil
- Family care, work with Indians, catechesis etc. in Maranhao, Bolivia (Santa Cruz)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Antonius von Henle (Ed.): Register of the Diocese of Regensburg . Publishing house of the Chancellery of the Episcopal Ordinariate Regensburg, Regensburg 1916, p. 652 .
- ^ Josef Rußwurm: Seeking love - 40 years of Caritas Association for the Diocese of Regensburg 1922–1962 . Franciscan Sisters of Aiterhofen. Ed .: Michael Prem. Buchdruckerei Max Haas, Regensburg 1962, p. 267 .
- ^ Franciscan convent St. Josef in Aiterhofen . Website House of Bavarian History. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- ↑ Quem Somos (Who we are) ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the province of Santa Clara in Brazil (Portuguese). Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- ^ Franciscan convent St. Josef in Aiterhofen . Website House of Bavarian History. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- ^ Vocational school for geriatric care / assistance in Aiterhofen
- ↑ Franziskanerinnen Aiterhofen - "Repent and believe the Gospel". Retrieved on November 9, 2019 (German).
- ↑ idowa, Straubing Germany: Aiterhofen: New training home for Malteser - idowa. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
- ^ Bishop celebrates patronage . Website of the diocese of Regensburg. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- ^ Franciscans of Aiterhofen . Website of the Aiterhofen Monastery. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
- ↑ Vocational School Directory . Website of the government of Lower Bavaria. Retrieved June 9, 2015.
Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 43.7 ″ N , 12 ° 37 ′ 0.2 ″ E