Neumanneum
The Neumanneum is a town house in the old town of Prachatice (German Prachatitz ), a town in the Jihočeský kraj region (South Bohemia) in the Czech Republic, built during the Renaissance period and used as a women's monastery from 1861 . The building has been a protected cultural monument since May 3, 1958.
history
At the time of the Renaissance, there were probably two independent houses attached to the medieval city wall, which were later connected.
In 1811 Johann Nepomuk Neumann , the 1977 canonized Bishop of Philadelphia , was born in this house. After Neumann's death in 1860, his father Filip Neumann donated the house to the Order of the Sisters of Mercy of St. Karl Borromäus , in which Neumann's sister Johanna (1813-1887) had entered in 1838 with the religious name Karolina . Major modifications were made to the building for the construction of the women's monastery and non-profit institutions such as a girls' school, kindergarten and nursing home.
In 1945 German-speaking residents were concentrated here before they were expelled . The Sisters of Mercy owned the building until 1975 when they had to leave it under pressure from the communist regime. At that time the house served as a retirement home, which stretched from Neumannova No. 142 to No. 145.
In 1990 a plaque was unveiled on Neumann's birthplace. In 1992 the Borromean Sisters returned to resume their social activities in Prachatice. On July 25, 1992, today's chapel was inaugurated.
description
The three-storey building shows a simple smooth facade on the left, from which the chapel facade on the right with the gable and the two high, neo-Gothic windows stands out.
use
On the first floor there is the chapel and a presentation room ( gallery ) on the life of St. Johann Nepomuk Neumann, on the second floor the cloister of the Sisters of Mercy.
There are two more presentation rooms on the ground floor of the house: the Matky Vojtěchy gallery reports on the life of Abbess Marie Vojtěcha Hasmandová (1914–1988), who was convicted of espionage and high treason by the Budweis District Court on September 19, 1953 and therefore spent eight years in communist prisons had to spend. The gallery smíření a hledání nových cest (German space of reconciliation and the search for new paths ) deals with cross-border reconciliation based on the events of the Second World War and the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia afterwards.
Behind the Neumanneum is the system operated by the Borromäerinnen age hospice and is located along the city wall, former monastery garden in 2007 for public sv Park. Jana N. Neumanna was redesigned.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Měšťanský dům ÚSKP 37332 / 3-3445 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
- ↑ a b Nová gallery k poctě sv. Jana N. Neumanna v Prachaticích (German New Gallery in honor of St. Johann N. Neumann in Prachatice ). In: prachatice.eu, February 23, 2017 (Czech with automatic translation option), accessed on October 17, 2019.
- ↑ Neumanneum. In: boromejky.cz (homepage of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy in the Czech Republic; Czech).
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 47.5 " N , 13 ° 59 ′ 47.8" E