St. Lioba Monastery (Freiburg im Breisgau)
The St. Lioba Monastery is a Benedictine monastery in the Günterstal district of the city of Freiburg im Breisgau . It is the motherhouse of the Benedictine nuns of St. Lioba and is located in the former Villa Wohlgemuth on the edge of the Freiburg city forest.
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history
The congregation of the Lioba Sisters dates back to 1920, when the sisters of the St. Hedwigs Children's Hospital, which had just opened, with an attached infant care school under the direction of Maria Föhrenbach, came together to form a spiritual and spiritual community and wanted to live according to the Rule of St. Benedict . The community was named after St. Lioba , relative and missionary companion of St. Boniface .
The first premises of the not yet papally recognized sisterhood were in the Freiburg district of Neuburg , where the children's hospital was also located. The sisters chose pastoral care and “service in the world”, such as nursing and teaching, as tasks. That is why the sisters do not live in a strict enclosure today either .
The premises soon became too small. When looking for new accommodation, it turned out that Villa Wohlgemuth in Günterstal was for sale. The property was acquired in 1927. In the same year the papal recognition of the sisterhood as a congregation of the order of the Benedictine Sisters took place.
description
The heart of the property is the Villa Wohlgemuth , which the chief magistrate August Wohlgemuth had built between 1906 and 1913 on a plot of land that once belonged to the Cistercian convent in Günterstal . The Heidelberg architect and building officer Fritz Seitz designed a building in the style of a Tuscan villa according to the client's specifications. He was inspired by his brother, the painter Wilhelm Wohlgemuth, for the architectural style of the Tuscan Renaissance . The painting brother also provided - in the sense of a total work of art - for the painting of the rooms with frescoes . With a few exceptions, these were painted over with a thin brushed plaster and a tinted emulsion paint in 1963, which, however, can be removed again without damaging the frescoes.
Individual components are of different heights and each have their own flat sloping hip roof, so that the almost square floor plan can hardly be recognized; However, it creates the strong impression of a Tuscan country estate without the building having a clear model. The atrium in the center of the main building is now the oratory of the monastery, the house chapel. A small bronze bell (Ø 400 mm, approx. 45 kg) cast by the Grüninger bell foundry in 1928 with the striking note b ″ +2 is rung exclusively by hand during services and prayer times.
Around the main building there are farm buildings and gardens, the St. Benedict guest house, a monastery shop, a biblical monastery garden and a small cemetery for the nuns. Across the street is a smaller building called House Subiaco . Here is an Edith Stein memorial room, in which Saint Edith Stein stayed during repeated visits to the St. Lioba Monastery between 1928 and 1933.
see also → Günterstal, Sankt Lioba
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Coordinates: 47 ° 58 '6.06 " N , 7 ° 51' 20.92" E