Maria Ward School Aschaffenburg
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| type of school | Gymnasium and Realschule |
| place | Aschaffenburg |
| country | Bavaria |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 58 '13 " N , 9 ° 9' 12" E |
| carrier | Maria Ward Foundation Aschaffenburg |
| management | Kai Richter (headmaster of grammar school) Alexandra Zengel (permanent deputy) Patrick Matheis (Head of Realschule) |
| Website | www.mwsab.de |
The Maria-Ward-Schule Aschaffenburg is a state-recognized church private school for girls, consisting of a secondary school and a grammar school. Founded by the women's order of the English Misses , today Congregatio Jesu , in Aschaffenburg in Bavaria in the diocese of Würzburg , the school is therefore still colloquially referred to as "the English". A convent attached to the school called St. Maria Monastery was dissolved in 2013 after the order of the Congregatio Jesu began to withdraw from educational work due to a lack of young people and from 2003 the school was transferred to a church foundation under public law.
founding
That the Blessed Virgin Mary - Beatae Mariae Virginis Institute consecrated was in 1747 by Franziska Hauser , Munich "Colonel head of" Superior General, following a petition to the electoral archbishop of Mainz, Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein founded . From the founding deed it can be seen that the nun Anna Maria von Schrenck (superior) with two teachers, the virgin Franziska Weiss and the virgin Dorothea, and sister Marianne Beck will settle in Aschaffenburg and open a trivial school .
Construction and destruction
The Aschaffenburg historian Alois Grimm notes in his house book V: “ Although many monasteries were closed due to the secularization of 1803, the institute of the English Misses in Aschaffenburg remains and the school can continue. “In 1820 a two-story schoolhouse was built at the Institute of the English Misses (corner of Strickergasse / Luitpoldstrasse), probably based on plans by Bernhard Morell . In 1844 the first branch opened in Damm , and in 1856 a branch in Großostheim . In 1863 a branch was added in St. Ingbert in the Rhine Palatinate and in 1866 a branch in Würzburg . In the war years of 1866 and 1870/71, an auxiliary hospital was set up in the buildings to accommodate war wounded. The sisters cared for the sick and wounded, for which the Institute was awarded the Cross of Merit by the Bavarian King on January 20, 1872. In 1887 a plot of land was purchased on the Ziegelberg (Refugium) in Aschaffenburg. A housekeeping school with boarding school was set up there through a gift from the wine merchant Martin Reith and his wife Gertrud at Obernauer Straße 48 in 1898 . After several extensions and conversions and new land acquisitions in the Strickergasse property, a new chapel, a gym and a ballroom were built in 1902. In 1911, after the purchase of buildings at Marktplatz 2–4 and in 1915 at Landingstrasse 16, new teaching buildings were built through renovation and new construction. In May 1927, the Ingelheimer Hof in Treibgasse 7 became the property of the monastery through purchase.
Due to the National Socialist “School Supplies Act” of December 1, 1936, the monastic teachers were removed and in 1941 school operations were stopped. The classrooms served as an auxiliary hospital until it was destroyed in 1944. In December 1945, classes in the Marktplatz 2–4 building began at the “Höheren Mädchenschule” (girls' upper secondary school , later grammar school) and middle school.
After 1945
A new school was built at Brentanoplatz 8-10 in 1960/61 through the exchange of land. In 1984 there was an increase and in 1998 an extension of the Maria Ward School.
In 1971 the building on Obernauer Strasse was demolished due to the construction of the third Main Bridge. The Ziegelberg property was redesigned to expand the palace garden. The city library and the new market square with city hall were built on the original school grounds, and the city and monastery archives, now the VHS, moved into the Marktplatz 2–4 building.
Chapel "Maria, Mother of the Church"
In the new convent and school building on Brentanoplatz, a house chapel (now a lecture room) was originally set up. It was sufficient for the convent of 50 sisters , but too small for school services. The Aschaffenburg architect Heinrich P. Kaupp was therefore commissioned to plan and build a new chapel. From 1967 to April 1968, after a nine-month construction period, a steel frame structure with a flat roof and external supports was erected, a construction technique and form that had not been used in Aschaffenburg until then. The building was erected on a square area of 20 × 20 meters on four columns above the garages on Herrleinstrasse. "Thin pilaster strips on all sides structure the five-meter-high facade made of stainless steel plates, which is offset a little inwards and thus allows access." The ceilings consist of galvanized steel cells with pressure concrete, a system known as the "Robertson steel cell ceiling". Spotlights are embedded in the ceiling. The side walls are made of gray, veneered chipboard, the floor of natural stone. The chapel has underfloor heating.
Bishop Josef Stangl consecrated the modern church on May 24, 1968 in honor of St. Clemens and Felix. City dean Karl Hartmann and the two religion teachers, senior teacher Karl Reichert and Capuchin Father Guido Kreppold assisted the bishop.
Furnishing
Siegfried Rischar , painter and graphic artist from Aschaffenburg, designed the windows of the chapel. The narrow ribbon of windows with green, wavy panes (tongues) running along the ceiling opens into the two windows that take up the entire wall at right angles behind the altar. The Laudenbach artist Hans Huschka created the altar table and ambo from large stainless steel elements with a strongly structured surface on the chancel, which is two steps higher . The center of the slender, three meter high stele is the bronze tabernacle . The priest's seat is also made of stainless steel. The chapel can be reached in the inner courtyard via stairs, but also from the convent building via a connecting wing.
Inclusion in the list of monuments
In 2012 the chapel was entered in the list of monuments with the following distinction: “The type of construction and the choice of building materials were ultra-modern at that time and an innovation in church construction. The chapel, in which this technique was implemented in a particularly appealing proportion, is in this respect an architectural specialty. The chapel is a monument for architectural reasons. "
Small chapel in the monastery wing
In 2005 the convent consisted of only 9 members of the Congregatio Jesu . A separate small chapel on the third floor of the house on Brentanoplatz was inaugurated for them in December 2005 by Bishop Friedhelm Hofmann . The simple room was decorated with the green enamel cross and the small square stations of the cross, which the Würzburg goldsmith Josef Amberg had created for the first chapel in 1961. The tabernacle and the eternal light also came from him. A special gem was the baroque statue of the Virgin, which was recovered from the ruins of the destroyed house on the market square at the end of the Second World War .
With the farewell of the last sisters of the Congregatio Jesu in 2013, this chapel was given up again.
Facade decoration
The new building from 1960/61 received sgraffiti across the facade by the painter Karl Manninger from Pöcking. Among other things, a motif was created on Stadelmannstrasse with the "development of Christian-occidental culture in distinctive personalities and symbols" (partly lost) and on Schweinheimer Strasse a motif from the fairy tale "the brave little tailor".
literature
- Michael Pfeifer: Aschaffenburgs Kirchen, Verlag-Atelier Pfeifer 2013, ISBN 978-3-933915-39-9 .
Web links
- Website of the Maria Ward School Aschaffenburg
- Monasteries in Bavaria: St. Maria in Aschaffenburg - In the service of girls' education (House of Bavarian History)
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria Ward Foundation Aschaffenburg
- ↑ Melanie Pollinger: Maria Ward School has a new sponsor: Maria Ward Foundation . Mainecho January 18, 2008.
- ↑ Max Spindler, Andreas Kraus, Sigmund Benker: Handbook of Bavarian History , CH Beck, 1995, ISBN 3-406-39451-5 , page 1248. Handbook of Bavarian History in the Google Book Search.
- ↑ Alois Grimm, Aschaffenburger Häuserbuch V .. Strickergasse .. arr. v. Monika Ebert and Ernst Holleber, Aschaffenburg History and Art Association ISBN 3-87965-084-5 (StaA. StadtR v. 1809 p. 196)
- ^ Aschaffenburger Jahrbuch Volume 9 - M. Renata Rohleder IBMV, The Institute of the English Misses in Aschaffenburg - Geschichts- und Kunstverein e. V. Aschaffenburg 1985 ISBN 3-87965-007-1
- ↑ Alois Grimm, Aschaffenburger Häuserbuch V ... see there
- ↑ Michael Pfeifer: Aschaffenburgs Kirchen, p. 52
- ↑ Aschaffenburger Volksblatt No. 120 of May 25, 1968
- ↑ Main-Echo No. 120 of May 25, 1968
- ↑ Main-Echo No. 118 from 22./23. May 1968
- ^ Letter from the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation of February 3, 2012 to the Aschaffenburg Monument Protection Authority
- ↑ 7/2012 still 3 sisters.
- ↑ Aschaffenburger Volksblatt No. 233 of October 8, 1960
