Luise-Henrietten-Stift

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The Luise Henrietten Stift in Lehnin , Brandenburg , around 25 kilometers southwest of Potsdam , has been a diaconal institution of the Evangelical Diakonissenhaus Berlin Teltow Lehnin , a foundation under civil law, since January 1, 2004 ; previously the monastery was a special fund of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . Many of its buildings and the area belonged to the former Cistercian monastery Lehnin . Romanesque - Gothic brick buildings and modern architecture are in forests and water-rich environment of Zauche an ensemble of various helping and healing institutions with which the located pin sees in the tradition of the monastery.

Cecilienhaus , cloister

history

In the brochure "Gästehaus Kloster Lehnin", the monastery, which in 2004 had around 400 employees, formulated this tradition as follows: In the middle of a cultural landscape that has been shaped by human hands since the monastery was founded, we see ourselves in the preservation of creation and in the careful treatment of nature the tradition of the Cistercian monks.

Foundation, early days

In the cloister

In 1911 the Evangelical Regional Church bought the building and founded the Deaconess Mother House Luise-Henrietten-Stift, with which a spiritual community moved into the monastery again after a long break. The monastery chose its name in memory of the wife of the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , Electress Luise Henriette von Oranien , who had made Lehnin her favorite summer residence in the middle of the 17th century . Lehnin deaconesses served in many Brandenburg hospitals in the 1920s and 1930s, because the motherhouse saw its task in training and sending community nurses. After various renovations and extensions to the building, 128 deaconesses and trial sisters were active in the facility at its numerical peak in 1936.

National Socialism and the Post-War Period

During the Nazi regime in the Third Reich, there was a children's home and orphanage in the Luise-Henriettenstift. In the children's home, the infants and toddlers of politically convicted people were accommodated by the special courts while the mothers were serving their sentences. The costs of housing the children had to be paid by the convicted themselves. During the time of National Socialism , the monastery management was brought into line and during the Second World War several institutions were closed. In 1943, the so-called General Representative for Chemistry (Gebechem) moved into several buildings of the monastery and had seven more barracks built on the site for his authority. The authority coordinated the interests of the war economy with those of the Wehrmacht and SS and from here distributed concentration camp prisoners and forced laborers to the chemical industry.

In 1945 doctors and deaconesses set up a hospital in the barracks, which were now empty . In 1949, the conversion of the former monastery farm to a hospital began , which was completed after almost 20 years.

In 2011 a memorial plaque was installed for the “FrauenOrte im Land Brandenburg” project funded by the Brandenburg Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, Women and the Family.

Facilities

Monastery area

Elisabethhaus , former brewery

In the monastery church of St. Marien, which is well worth seeing, the monastery offers services together with the Zinna monastery as a special musical feature, the medieval series Musica Mediaevalis . The former convent wing of the central monastery complex is now the Luise-Henrietten-Haus, the hospice and home of the deaconesses and sisters. Since the establishment of a geriatric rehabilitation clinic with an old people's and nursing home in 1993 in the new south wing of the central monastery complex, the Luise Henrietten Stift has been a geriatric center in the Evangelisches Diakonissenhaus Berlin Teltow Lehnin Foundation . The hospice is intended to enable aging with dignity to the end and integrates needs-based palliative care and care for relatives. In 2004, the monastery administration and the kitchen are located in the east wing with the cloister and chapter house , today's Cecilienhaus . Today the monastery also has a clinic for internal medicine and palliative medicine , a nursing school, a deaconry station and a kindergarten .

The probably former monastic hospital , which today is home to the so-called royal house, is home to a learning workshop, as well as readings and smaller chamber concerts . The old abbot's house built before 1270 with the later extension of the Leibnizhaus now serves as the Lehnin monastery guest house , which is accessible to everyone. The adjoining Elisabethhaus , the former monastery brewery , which has been known since 1911 , houses the visitor reception, the celebratory and dining room of the monastery, as well as accommodation on the first floor for the students of the nursing school. There is also the permanent exhibition Cistercians in Brandenburg . The monastery has set up a patient library in the former gate chapel .

The parsonage from 1845, in neo-Gothic style, is today the seat of the superintendent of the Belzig-Lehnin parish. The official building from 1696 is currently being restored and will house a new local history museum after its completion . The former granary from the middle of the 14th century, the last large building that has not yet been renovated, will be converted into a restaurant with a garden terrace according to the planning of the monastery; exhibitions and concerts are planned for the roof structure.

Wall and modern elderly care center Lothar Kreyssig Haus

The Sonnenschlösschen is home to a youth welfare project of the monastery with a living group, in which social and emotional disorders and developments in children and adolescents are to be slowed down using a therapeutic approach. The aim of this work is to enable the young patients to return to their families. Various other buildings that were added in the 20th century are part of the clinics. In contrast to the huge clinic building, the new Lothar Kreyssig Haus elderly care center to the north of the clinics blends harmoniously into the landscape.

Outdoor area

As part of the geriatric rehabilitation clinic, the monastery operates a new development with the so-called Altenhöfe. Here old people are offered a life and living in the community in partly historical buildings in the surrounding villages and in pleasant surroundings. These include, for example, a former schoolhouse, a disused water mill and the old post office from the 16th century, the oldest house in the municipality of Kloster Lehnin . The outpatient care and supply services of the Lothar Kreyssig Haus geriatric care center are also available to the Altenhöfe via an emergency call system.

Stephan Warnatsch summed up the facilities of the monastery: “With its exemplary network of offers of help and the indissoluble connection between“ praying and doing the righteous ”, preaching and diakonia, the former monastery and today's Lehnin monastery is a“ showcase ”of the church. "

  • For a detailed look at the construction history of the historical buildings still in use today, see the article on the Lehnin Monastery , which also contains a map of the buildings.

location

  • Address: Klosterkirchplatz 20, 14797 Lehnin
  • Public transport: Lehnin, bus station stop
  • How to get there: Autobahn A 2 Berlin-Hanover, exit Lehnin or exit Netzen
  • WGS84 : 52.320392132, 12.7436417341

literature

  • Lehnin Cistercian Abbey. From the Ascanic family burial place to the establishment of evangelical charity , The Blue Books, text by Stephan Warnatsch, Langewiesche Nachf., Königstein im Taunus, 2nd, updated edition 2008. Quotation p. 58. ISBN 978-3-7845-0816-0
  • Stephan Warnatsch: History of the Lehnin Monastery 1180-1542 (= studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians , Volume 12.1), Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2000 (also: Berlin, Free University, dissertation, 1999). Citations p. 152. ISBN 3-931836-45-2

Individual evidence

  1. Evangelisches Diakonissenhaus Berlin Teltow Lehnin  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. History of the Lehnin Monastery.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.edbtl.de  
  2. FrauenOrte: Kloster Lehnin, Evangelisches Diakonissenhaus Berlin Teltow Lehnin  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.frauenrat-brandenburg.de  

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