St. Anna Monastery (Riedenburg)

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St. Anna Monastery

The monastery of St. Anna was established in October 1860 in the Lower Bavarian town of Riedenburg from the abbess Mater Franziska Wiest along with four other Clares - Choir, female founded and two lay sisters. They came to the city from the St. Klara Monastery in Regensburg at the request of the citizens of Riedenburg. For this purpose , a monastery complex in neo-Gothic style was built in 1858/59 south of the former pilgrimage church of St. Anna, which dates back to the Gothic period . This branch of the Regensburg St. Klara Monastery became an independent monastery in 1898.

Since the religious order had to record many new entries towards the end of the 19th century, the monastery complex was expanded to four wings in 1891 and received a building with a stepped gable and two towers with pointed helmets . At the same time, the St. Anna monastery church was expanded. In the years 1965/66 there was another renovation. Due to the reorganization of the Catholic orders by the Second Vatican Council (1965), the Order of the Poor Clares was incorporated into the Order of the Franciscans in 1970 . The official name of the religious order has since been Franciscan Sisters of the Poor Clare Monastery of St. Anna, Riedenburg.

In 1926 the monastery consisted of 38 women choirs and two lay sisters; today the monastic community consists of only eight nuns .

Girls secondary school St. Anna

Girls secondary school St. Anna

In 1860 the Ministry of Culture approved the establishment of a school for monastic teachers. In addition, the Order of the Poor Clares took over the local girls' school, three nuns gave lessons and a boarding school was set up. The teacher training college had to be closed again in 1911 because it proved to be economically unprofitable. Two years later they built a new middle school girls, the one sechsklassiges 1916 to 1938 Lyceum was. In addition, from 1934 there was a secondary school for housekeepers, which was a forerunner of the four-stage middle school and today's six-stage secondary school, as well as a housekeeping school from 1917 to 1974.

Today the six-level girls' secondary school has around 450 students and 25 teachers with one more monastic teacher. In 1999 the school's boarding school was closed. On January 1, 2005, the school was included in the newly established school foundation of the Diocese of Regensburg . Mater Beatrix Riegelsberger was the last religious to head the school from 1979 to 2006. From 2006 to 2014 Anna Maria Müller was the headmistress; Christian Fackler has been the headmaster since August 1, 2014.

School projects

  • India-Aid: This project supports an orphanage and a school in Madras, India, which are called St. Anna.
  • Solidarity march: in October every year, schoolgirls run a distance of around 10 km. For the solidarity march, the students look for sponsors beforehand, from whom they receive a negotiated amount for each kilometer they run. The total amount of the hunger march will be donated to a charity (mostly for the orphanage and school in India).

Well-known students

St. Anna Monastery Church

The original church, of which only the Gothic, three-sided choir with vault has survived, dates from the 14th century and was a pilgrimage church before the monastery was founded, in which the Holy Mother Anna and the Fourteen Holy Helpers were particularly venerated. Numerous votive panels on the gallery bear witness to this . In 1735 the church was expanded and received a greatly enlarged nave with a wood-paneled flat ceiling and a rear organ loft . The church has served as the St. Anna monastery church since 1860 and was expanded again in 1891 as part of a monastery expansion. It also received its current three-story tower with a pointed helmet, which is presented in neo-Gothic forms. There is a short connecting wing to the monastery building, so that around half of the window areas added in the Baroque period have been omitted.

Special sights in the church are the Gothic relief image of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and the depiction of Anna herself on the high altar , a Gothic winged altar . Two medallions , made in 1985 by the Austrian artist Jakob Adlhart , are attached to the left and right of the pointed choir arch. The left medallion shows the Madonna in a protective cloak, who hides the pupils on one side and the sisters on the other under her cloak. The counterpart on the right represents the founders of the order, Francis of Assisi and Clare of Assisi .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Christine Riedl-Valder: Riedenburg, Klarissenkloster St. Anna - education for young women . Online at www.hdbg.eu; accessed on August 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ The Sisters of St. Anna . Online at ww.mrsstanna.de; accessed on August 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Teachers . Online at www.mrsstanna.de; accessed on August 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ a b Lampl, p. 32f.

Coordinates: 48 ° 57 ′ 48 ″  N , 11 ° 41 ′ 15 ″  E