Wallerstein Monastery
The Wallerstein monastery is a former monastery of the Piarists and later a monastery of the English Misses in Wallerstein in Bavaria in the diocese of Augsburg .
history
The monastery consecrated to St. Anna was founded in 1761 by Count Philipp Karl von Öttingen-Wallerstein ; it was dissolved in 1803 in the course of secularization .
In 1859, a small branch of the "Englischen Fräulein" was established in the market town of Wallerstein. Three sisters came from Mindelheim and took over the girls' elementary school, which was housed in the so-called Klösterle . In 1866 the area became the property of the “Englischen Fräulein”. At the turn of the century, the monastery opened a six-class lyceum. Sisters also worked in kindergarten. During the Nazi dictatorship the nuns had to stop taking responsibility for the education of the youth. After the Second World War was a girls' middle school will be opened by the Mary Ward Sisters in the early 1960s to February 1946 Mädchenrealschule was redesigned.
Since January 1, 2004, the Maria Ward sisters have been allowed to call themselves “Congregatio Jesu”. The last six sisters moved to other houses of the order after the school was handed over in autumn 2008.
Web links
- Wallerstein Monastery , basic data in the database of monasteries in Bavaria in the House of Bavarian History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wallerstein: Maria Ward sisters said goodbye ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. CJ News October 19, 2008
Coordinates: 48 ° 53 ′ 22.6 " N , 10 ° 28 ′ 15.2" E