Pallotti House (Olpe)
The Pallotti House in Olpe is a former Pallottine monastery . Construction began in 1915, but had to be interrupted in 1917 due to the First World War . From 1924 construction continued. The foundation stone was laid on May 11, 1924 and the topping-out ceremony four months later. The first novices moved into the Pallotti House in 1926. The consecration of the church took place on May 10, 1925, the actual consecration by the Paderborn bishop Caspar Klein took place on June 2, 1928. During the Nazi era , the house was confiscated by the Gestapo in the summer of 1941 . Thereupon the people of Olper showed solidarity with the Pallottines and there were demonstrations and protests. Nevertheless, the house was expropriated and used, among other things, as a Nazi women's school for social professions by the National Socialist People's Welfare (NSV). After the Second World War , in May 1945, the house was taken over again by the Pallottines. They used it again as a novitiate until it was moved to Untermerzbach in 1967. Over the years, other tasks such as retreats, police chaplaincy, faith seminars, marriage preparation courses, etc. were added. After renovation and expansion, the youth education center "Jugendhof" was built in 1983/1984. Adult education ended in 2007.
During the same period, the Olper property was sold. A private investor bought the Pallottihaus and built 40 old people's homes and 100 fully inpatient care places in the property now known as “Wohngut Osterseifen”.
In 2007 the Pallottines rented a small part of the complex, including the youth courtyard and apartments, for the remaining priests, but at the beginning of 2018 they finally closed their branch. The Jugendhof moved to the former Maria Königin monastery in Altenhundem.
The church and chapel were classified as monuments by the LWL monument protection authority in 2017. The sponsor and the church in Olpe agreed that the now private church and the Marienkapelle remain open to the public as private chapels.
Former Fathers
- Friedrich Franzen (1893–1974), rector of the Pallottines in Olpe, retreat master and local writer
- Johannes Rosenthal (1903–1975), Pallottine Bishop and first Bishop of Queenstown in South Africa
- Heinz Perne SAC (1930–2008), priest of the Pallottines, religious teacher, journalist and songwriter
Trivia
Two of the first three bells were given to the Pallottines by the Schützenverein Olpe and the Jungfrauen-Verein.
literature
- Norbert Hannappel: The Gestapo attack on the Pallottine monastery in Olpe. June 19, 1941: People in the Resistance - Contemporary witness reports and documents. Norderstedt, 2017 (edition leutekirche sauerland 8) ISBN 978-3-7460-3040-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.siegener-zeitung.de/vorlander-reader/Jugendhof-muss-iegen-0eaef472-37d1-450b-8fb7-dcc65a08c9ad-ds
Coordinates: 51 ° 2 ′ 31.3 " N , 7 ° 51 ′ 50.7" E