Weichs Monastery

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The school (courtyard, 2016)

Weichs Monastery is the location of the Theresia-Gerhardinger-Realschule in the municipality of Weichs in the district of Dachau in the district of Upper Bavaria (Bavaria). The monastery, founded in 1854, was initially an institution of the poor school sisters of Our Lady for the training of teachers, today's secondary school is run by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising .

history

In 1852/53, the educationalist Willibald Baustädter and his brother, the Vistula pastor Georg Baustädter, acquired the Barons von Weichs' castle, which was built in 1774 and now decaying, and the lands belonging to it. He had the castle rebuilt and handed it over to the poor school sisters for the establishment of a monastery and a preparatory school for the training of young religious women to become teachers. In 1854 Bavaria's first teacher training institute was founded at the monastery. In 1938 the National Socialists forbade the admission of schoolgirls, in 1938 the sisters had to leave Weichs. Then the monastery was occupied by refugees, SS troops and for deportation to Kinderland etc.

From 1946 the monastery - initially under very difficult spatial conditions and with inadequate equipment - became a high school for monastic preparatory women, which was moved to Munich-Au from 1952. Instead, the three-year middle school for the next generation of the Order was moved from Munich to Weichs. In 1964, the middle school was extended from three to four years and renamed "Realschule", which was later also opened to external students who did not live in the boarding school . From 1999 a six-level secondary school was introduced.

New school building (2016)

In 2003 the School of the Poor School Sisters was taken over by the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising and is run as the Archbishopric Theresia-Gerhardinger-Realschule Weichs , named after the founder of the Poor School Sisters, Sister Theresia Gerhardinger . From 2004, boys were also accepted for the first time. Since the school year 2008/09 there has been a school management that does not belong to the order.

7 Monasteries Way

The monastery is also a stop on the 7-Klöster-Weg , a cycle path that connects seven existing or former monasteries in the Dachauer and Wittelsbacher Lands . The aim of this 100 km long bike path is to bring the monasteries back to consciousness and make them tangible. The seven monasteries: Monastery Schönbrunn in Röhrmoos , Monastery Weichs, Kloster Indersdorf , Kloster Petersberg , altomünster abbey , Kloster Maria Birnbaum in Sielenbach and monastery taxa in Odelzhausen .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tgrs Weichs.de: School History , accessed on August 9, 2020.
  2. ↑ The "7 Klöster Weg" in the Dachauer and Wittelsbacher Land ( Memento from 23 May 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - (Verwaltungsgemeinschaft Odelzhausen , accessed on 23 May 2015)

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 40.4 "  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 54.4"  E