Jesuit monastery (Düren)

The College of Jesuits around 1910

Philipp Wilhelm

The first Jesuit monastery was in Düren , North Rhine-Westphalia , in the street Höfchen . Later the monastery moved.

In 1636 two Jesuit priests took over the administration of the parish of St. Anna. Duke Wolfgang Wilhelm assigned them the rectory in the Höfchen as their first residence. Later, he gave the college his house in the Pfaffengasse today Jesuitengasse . On March 12, 1629, the parish of St. Anna was transferred to the Jesuits, as the then pastor Meier had died of the plague . In 1636 the Jesuits took over the Latin school , today's collegiate grammar school . In 1641 10 priests , 4 magistrates and 5 lay brothers lived in Düren. In 1649 the Jesuit branch was elevated to a university.

In 1673 the Jesuit College had 22 members, which means that the former rectory turned out to be too small. In 1670 it was decided to build a new college building in Jesuitengasse. Count Palatine Philipp Wilhelm laid the foundation stone . The inauguration took place on August 24, 1673. In the basement of the building there was an anteroom, a large museum and the kitchen, and 20 rooms on the two floors above. In the adjoining former apartment of the bailiff , which had been included in the new building, the house chapel, the sick room, the tailor's shop and two other small rooms were set up.

In 1774 the order was dissolved because the elector had accepted Pope Clement XIV's breve dated July 21, 1773. The building then had several functions and was completely destroyed in the air raid on November 16, 1944 .

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrichs: Order and its branches in old Düren. Hahne and Schloemer Verlag, Düren 2003, ISBN 3-927312-55-X , pp. 100-118

Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 0.3 ″  N , 6 ° 29 ′ 2.4 ″  E