St. Scholastika Monastery in Neustift

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The St. Scholastika Neustift Monastery is located in Neustift in the municipality of Ortenburg near Vilshofen on the Danube and is the motherhouse of the Bavarian Province of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration .

founding

The year the Neustift Monastery was founded is 1922 . After the founding of the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration in Bellemagny in Alsace in 1851 , many German sisters also entered the French monastery and worked in various French branches. During the First World War, all 50 German-born sisters were forced to leave France. Eight of them began building a new monastery in the Lower Bavarian village of Neustift in 1922. On October 12, 1924, the new “Adoration Monastery of St. Scholastica”, as it was initially called, was inaugurated.

A housekeeping school was built in the monastery on May 2, 1925, and a kindergarten on May 15, 1929. In the course of time, numerous branches of the sisters emerged, especially in Lower Bavaria.

time of the nationalsocialism

During the time of National Socialism , numerous Slovenian children were torn from their families and deported to Bavaria. More than a hundred of these children were to be “Germanized” in the St. Scholastika Neustift monastery. “If they didn't obey, they were beaten, mistreated, imprisoned. If the children stole out of hunger, they were often beaten, ”reported Christoph Schwarz from the Stolen Children Association . Until December 2018 nothing in the monastery reminded of this time, although the children of that time had asked the Benedictine nuns for a memorial plaque for years.

The monastery today

In 2017, 38 sisters lived in Neustift Abbey, who lived their lives according to the Rule of St. Align Benedict and dedicate yourself to Eucharistic Adoration . The sisters work in the areas of activity in the house, garden and administration, in looking after the guests, but also in kindergartens, schools and in the care of the sick and the elderly.

On March 21, 2009, the Benedictine Sisters elected Sister Helene Binder to succeed Mother Siglinde Starnecker as the new Prioress .

In 2017, BR Fernsehen visited the monastery for the report The last one turns off the light? About the conversion of monasteries .

Facilities

  • The Columba Neef secondary school for girls in Neustift
  • The St. Martin kindergarten in Neustift
  • Until 2020 the home elementary school and the kindergarten St. Maria in Fürstenzell
  • Until 2014 the residential and care center St. Benedikt in Passau-Waldesruh. In July 2014 it was sold to the AZURIT Group. But there are still five sisters living in the nurses' house and seven in the care area of ​​the elderly care facility.

The monastery church of St. Pius X.

Neustift, on the left the monastery church, in the middle the parish church

On October 20, 1954, the foundation stone was laid for the new construction of the St. Pius monastery church. The plan for the church was designed by the Munich architect Michael Steinbrecher, the construction work was carried out by the engineer and architect Josef Kirschner and his father master builder Peter Kirschner.

In 1999 and 2000 the Pius Church was redesigned according to a design by the architect Tilmann Ott and by the artist Wolf Hirtreiter . The church interior is now divided into three parts: the chancel, the choir and the common room. In the chancel, the worship area with the large tabernacle was delimited transparently by an open bronze grille. The altar on the altar island is re-lit through a specially created opening in the ceiling. Colored glass windows on the theme of “ Incarnation ” (“The word becomes flesh”) were added. The glass and concrete choir window of the “old” church by Prof. Franz Nagel ( Munich Art Academy ) on the subject of the “ Eucharist ” behind the tabernacle was preserved. The Way of the Cross by H. Zmarsly from Ebersberg was also left. The redesign gave the monastery church a completely different character: much more color (also due to the medallions on the pillars and the new floor) and brightness.

Overview of the Benedictines d. A., which came from Neustift

  • Retreat house of Schweiklberg Abbey (since 1920)
  • Boys' education home Eschelbach near Pfaffenhofen (1922–1923)
  • St. Stephan seminary in Passau (1922–2008)
  • Apostolic Nunciature in Munich (1925–1937)
  • Sacred Heart Home in Teublitz (1932–1993)
  • Children's home and outpatient nursing in Haidmühle (1934–1946)
  • St. Valentin seminar in Passau (1934–2000)
  • Episcopal residence in Passau (1936–1971)
  • Boys' seminar St. Max in Passau (1939–1983)
  • Christkönigskolleg in Passau-Bergfried (1940–1941 and 1955–1993)
  • Marist monastery Fürstenzell (1942–2002)
  • Kindergarten and sewing school in Passau – Auerbach (1947–1953)
  • Kindergarten St. Alruna in Ortenburg (1952–1999)
  • Children's home St. Josef in Teublitz (1956–1958)
  • St. Altmann Seminar in Burghausen (1956–1990)
  • Retreat house Passau-Mariahilf, today Spectrum Church Maria Hilf (1960-2006)

literature

  • Benedictine Sisters of Adoration (Ed.): 1851-2001 Benedictine Sisters of Adoration. Festschrift for the centenary of the Congregation of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration . Passau 2001
  • Benedictine Sisters of Adoration (Ed.): Annual Report of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration . Annually published since 1924 by the Bavarian Province and published in large numbers on events in the Province and Congregation.
  • Friedrich Verena: The Benedictine Sisters of the Adoration of Bellemagny / Dijon - Vienna - Neustift . Kunstverlag Peda, Passau 2001, ISBN 978-3-89643-143-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stolen children: NS-processing in Niederbayern at br.de, accessed on December 13, 2018
  2. ↑ Article: Helene Binder is the new Prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Adoration from March 23, 2009 on medals, accessed online on March 23, 2009
  3. ↑ The last one turns off the light? About the conversion of monasteries

Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '57.86 "  N , 13 ° 11' 40.68"  E