New Benedictine Abbey of Kornelimünster
The New Benedictine Abbey Kornelimünster is a Benedictine abbey in Kornelimünster , a district of Aachen . It has existed since 1906 and belongs to the Congregation of Subiaco and Montecassino of the Benedictine Confederation . The official title today is Abbey of the Holy Abbot Benedict of Aniane and Pope Cornelius . The new abbey is not a legal successor to the imperial abbey Kornelimünster , which also existed in Kornelimünster until 1804 and is also located at another location at the western end of Kornelimünster. She certainly wants to tie in with the tradition of the imperial abbey.
history
In 1906, over 100 years after the imperial abbey was dissolved, Benedictines (from the German Merkelbeek abbey on the Dutch side of the border near Brunssum) were reintroduced into Kornelimünster. Initially only three monks remained in Kornelimünster to accompany the construction of the new monastery. The new monastery building was occupied on November 21, 1908. The monastery was officially built on October 14, 1909.
The first decades were politically and economically difficult and determined by the search for one's own identity and by questions of interaction with the parish. It was not until 1953 that the monastery was elevated to an abbey. The abbey church was only built between 1951 and 1956.
Until 1948, the function of the monastery was strongly influenced by the auxiliary pastoral care in the parishes in the near and far. From 1948 to 1988 a secondary school and an attached boarding school were set up in the monastery.
Since 1988 the abbey has been offering the opportunity to be a guest in the monastery for a period of time, to participate in events, for individual retreats or simply for a few days in the quiet of the monastery as a house of the encounter of faith . The program of events includes lecture retreats and days of reflection on certain mostly biblical topics, exchange and reading days, choral weekends and more.
The abbot of the abbey is now Father Friedhelm Tissen, who was elected on March 12, 2008.
In 2010, the old school and boarding school section, which was sold to private investors, was renovated, divided and sold as separate condominiums. However, the monastery was fully preserved in the rear part of the building.
The bells
The monastery received three of the four bells ringing in the Kornelimünster Abbey on the occasion of a triple jubilee of the priesthood in 1935. The Fathers Fridolin Klaiber (consecrated in 1895), Lullus Gatterdam (consecrated in 1900) and Theodard Boelaars (consecrated in 1910) celebrated the reception of their priestly ordination before 40 , 35 and 25 years. The largest of these three bells is dedicated to Gregory the Great . The anniversaries are immortalized on it with the inscription: ON THE ANNIVERSARY: P. FRIDOLIN P. THEODARD P. LULLUS * ANNO DOMINI MCMXXXV * ST. GREGOR THE GREAT. I BELIEVE IN A SALVATION. KATH. CHURCH. The second bell is placed under the protection of the first abbot of the abbey and religious father Benedict von Aniane (815–821). The dedication on the bell reads: TO THE JUBILEE OF THE WORLD OBLATES OF ST. BENEDIKT * CORNELIMÜNSTER: ANNO DOMINI MCMXXXV. ST. BENEDICT: PRAY AND WORK. The third bell is a reminder of the Brotherhood of Daily Adoration established in 1910 and is intended to praise Holy Mass . The strikes of these bells are c - es - f. They were cast in the Petit & Gebr. Edelbrock foundry in Gescher, Münsterland . Although the bells were withdrawn in 1942 on the occasion of the metal collections of the time, they still survived the war like most others. The smallest bell served as an alarm bell at the Dreilägerbachtalsperre near Roetgen in the event of a bombing. The other two were stored in Stolberg . At the end of the war, the three bells came back unharmed.
The monastery received the fourth, large bell (chime g sharp °) on May 12, 1952 from the Hamburg bell cemetery . It originally hung in the tower of the Katharinenkirche in Braunsberg in East Prussia . The sound of this bell, according to the inscription, cast on October 24th, 1726, had inspired Napoleon so much in 1812 that he wanted to take it to France. As the “musically most valuable bell” in East Prussia, it escaped the metal collections of the time during the First World War, but was confiscated in the course of the renewed metal collections in 1942 and taken to the bell cemetery in Hamburg. Moving them to Hamburg saved them from destruction in the fighting around Braunsberg in 1945.
Priors and abbots
- Bonifatius Busch († 1906) (founding superior)
- Benno Wessels 1912–1922 (Prior)
- Celestine Heßling 1922 (Prior)
- Stephan Renzel 1922–1932 (Prior)
- Benno Wessels 1932–1937 (Prior)
- Odilo Gleinser 1937–1939 (Prior)
- Bonifatius Becker 1939–1953 (prior), 1953–1956 (prior administrator), 1956–1967 (abbot)
- Berthold Simons 1967–1980
- Albert Altenähr 1982-2007
- Friedhelm Tissen since 2008
literature
- The Benedictine Rule (Latin - German) , ed. on behalf of the Salzburg Abbots' Conference . Beuroner Kunstverlag, Beuron 1992, ISBN 3-87071-061-6
- Christian Schütz , Philippa Rath (ed.): The Benedictine order. Seeking God in prayer and work . Matthias Grünewald Verlag, 3rd edition, Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-7867-8506-6
- Albert J. Urban (ed.): Lexicon of pilgrimage sites. Their history and today's meaning. Voltmedia Verlag, Paderborn 2006, ISBN 3-938478-35-7
- Paul Fabianek: Consequences of secularization for the monasteries in the Rhineland. Using the example of the Schwarzenbroich and Kornelimünster monasteries. Verlag BoD, Norderstedt 2012, ISBN 978-3-8482-1795-3
- Jens Nürnberger: The return of the Benedictines to the Archdiocese of Cologne after secularization and the Kulturkampf. The new Benedictine abbey in Kornelimünster (= publications of the Episcopal Diocesan Archives Aachen , vol. 51). Einhard Verlag, Aachen 2014, ISBN 978-3-943748-20-8
Web links
- Entry on the Abbey Church of St. Benedict von Aniane and St. Kornelius in the database " KuLaDig " of the Rhineland Regional Association
- Official website of the abbey
Coordinates: 50 ° 43 '46 " N , 6 ° 10' 6.1" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Individual guests. Accessed June 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Kornelimünster Abbey - course program. Accessed June 14, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Information on the abbey website