St. Ursula Monastery (Wuppertal)

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The former monastery of St. Ursula, now a nursing home for the elderly

The St. Ursula Monastery is a historic monastery in the North Rhine-Westphalian city ​​of Wuppertal and was consecrated to St. Ursula of Cologne . It belonged to the Order of the Holy Cross ("Kreuzherren") and was operated from 1953 to 2005. The building has the street address Chlodwigstraße 27 .

At the invitation of the Cologne Cardinal Joseph Frings , the Lords of the Cross came back to Germany in 1953, after their monasteries were secularized in 1804 . They lived in the rebuilt monastery to the north of the St. Suitbertus church in the southern part of Elberfeld . At the same time they took over the administration of the church from 1954. Father Antonius Hogema was rector and prior of the monastery from 1958 to 1970 and was accompanied by 15 other fathers .

Later in 2005 the premises were handed over to the Caritas Association , which operates a small nursing home there. The parish office (also the central office of the Catholic Parish Association Elberfeld-Mitte) and the parish library are also located there.

Web links

Commons : Monastery of St. Ursula  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolfgang Stock: Wuppertal street names . Thales Verlag, Essen-Werden 2002, ISBN 3-88908-481-8
  2. ^ 60 years of priests - Father Antonius Hogema ( Memento of December 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Obituary of Father Antonius Hogema
  3. ↑ Senior service living in the St. Ursula Monastery ( Memento from March 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Central office in the Catholic Parish Association Elberfeld-Mitte ( Memento from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '2.7 "  N , 7 ° 8" 37.4 "  E