Maria Königin monastery and grammar school

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Aerial view of the monastery complex

The Maria Königin monastery and grammar school is located near Altenhundem on Landstrasse 715, which leads from Altenhundem to Bilstein . Located on a light hill just before the junction to Hohen Bracht , the light building complex with the crucifix on the tower can be seen from afar.

Missionaries of the Holy Family

View of the Maria Königin monastery church
Chancel of the Maria Königin monastery church
Modern stained glass window in the Maria Königin monastery church

The monastery with attached grammar school was an institution of the German Order Province of Missionaries of the Holy Family (MSF). Its story began in 1920 in Adolfsburg Castle in Oberhundem when the first mission school was founded. This was later relocated to Altenhundem and given up in 1962 as part of a changed school concept.

The last rector of the MSF order in Altenhundem was Father Rector Johannes Nies. In addition to his pastoral work in various districts of Lennestadt, Father MSF Leo Jahn was also known as a local artist. His well-known works include the “Zeitbrunnen” monument erected on the occasion of the 1000th anniversary in Oedingen in 2000 and the “Wanderer Cross” erected in 2007 on the Rhein-Weser Tower for the 75th anniversary.

Difficulties arose from the age of the priests who are currently still living in the monastery. On October 1, 2015, the Teutonic Order Province of Missionaries of the Holy Family officially closed the monastery or mission house. It is to be expected that the facilities will in future be used by the Pallottiner-Jugendhof youth education center from Olpe.

Maria Queen High School

The mission school founded in 1920 in Adolfsburg Castle in Oberhundem was forcibly closed by the National Socialists in March 1940 . After the Second World War , a permanent new beginning in Adolfsburg was no longer possible, especially since the buildings were no longer suitable for the mission school and the boarding school . Finally, in September 1958, the new mission school and boarding school on the country road leading from Altenhundem to Bilstein could be moved into. Four years later the mission school was given up and a new path was taken with the Maria Königin secondary school . In addition to the students who lived in the boarding school, external students have now also been accepted.

In 1967 the Maria Königin private old and new language grammar school was founded under the direction of the senior teacher Paul Tigges . In 1971 the school opened to girls too. Since it was founded in 1967, the grammar school has grown from small beginnings into a stately school with 908 students and more than 50 teachers (as of the 2011/2012 school year). The striving for the Christian and value-oriented character of school life is also evident in the everyday school life (school and youth services, religious leisure time and days of reflection, school trips to the pilgrimage site in Kohlhagen, etc.). There is also a partnership with the missionaries of St. Family run mission project Servir. About 97 percent of the students are Catholic ; for teachers, this percentage is slightly lower at 90%.

There is also a wide range of activities available to students outside of everyday school life:

  • Sports: Sports helper (sporting breaks, organization), trainer C-license, participation with school teams in city and district as well as national and international (soccer: Germany - England) competitions in various sports (boys / girls soccer, tennis, Badminton, table tennis, basketball ...)
  • Individual support: "Learnable", homework supervision by trained schoolchildren, arranging tutoring, support for the gifted, career advice
  • Working groups (AG's): school paramedics, robot group, strategy game group, choir / vocal group, several theater groups, mediation / dispute resolution, "math circles", chemistry group, big band, dancing

In May 2000, for organizational reasons, the sponsorship of the school changed from the association “Missionare der Heiligen Familie eV” to the new sponsor “Gymnasium Maria Königin e. V. “about. This had no effect on the Christian goals or orientation of the school, the chairman of the association is Father Josef Vodde MSF.

Maria Queen Monastery Church

The Maria Königin monastery church is attached to the mission house and grammar school. The construction work began in April 1957, the Archbishop of Paderborn Lorenz Jaeger consecrated the house on May 31, 1959.

The monastery church was designed by the architect Silberkuhl from Essen as the most modern sacral church building in the Sauerland. Without decorating the facades, the church shows the new design language of a modern construction technique that relies on pure surface effects. The window relief embedded in the simple, curved concrete surface loosens up the wall surface, but conveys the expression of cool functionalism in its clear geometric design language . The self-contained structure conveys an overall successful interplay of modernity and spirituality. The church was restored in 1986/87. The entrance doors, altar and cross were redesigned with imaginative works of bronze and stone. The tabernacle in the center of the choir shell, which was optically highlighted with a pane in red glass mosaic, should be emphasized.

Web links

Commons : Maria Königin monastery and high school  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell to the Fathers, in: SWA Siegerländer Wochenanzeiger, edition of August 26, 2015
  2. ↑ http://maria-koenigin.de/ ; Section "Information → Statistics", accessed: April 17, 2012
  3. ↑ http://www.maria-koenigin.de/ Information section, query from March 21, 2011
  4. ↑ http://maria-koenigin.de/ ; Rubric "Activities → Sport"; Accessed: April 17, 2012
  5. ↑ http://www.maria-koenigin.de/downloads/dokumente/foerderung.pdf  ( 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. ; Accessed: April 17, 2012@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.maria-koenigin.de  
  6. ↑ http://maria-koenigin.de/ ; Rubric "Activities → Careers Advice"; Accessed: April 17, 2012
  7. ↑ http://maria-koenigin.de/ ; "Activities → Working Groups" section; Accessed: April 17, 2012
  8. ↑ Ralf Breer and Otto Höffer, Churches and Chapels in Attendorn, Lennestadt and Kirchhundem, Attendorn 1999, p. 64

Coordinates: 51 ° 5 ′ 54 ″  N , 8 ° 3 ′ 40 ″  E