Redemptorist Monastery Bonn
The Redemptorist monastery Josefshöhe is a Redemptorist monastery in the Auerberg district of Bonn . The monastery at the Cologne road (corner at Josephinum) with the Church of St. Joseph at the height stands as monument under monument protection .
location
The terms Josefshöhe and St. Joseph at the height relating to a field name , the (Kölnstraße) and an old trail between the lower-lying probably on the situation of today's convent Cologne at the intersection of road Graurheindorf and today's border to Alfter attributed which follows the course of the streets An der Josefshöhe , Höhweg and (partially) Am Josephinum, which is interrupted today in the area of the Collegium Josephinum . A derivation from the place of execution of the high judiciary , which was located northwest of the monastery on the southeast side of the wall of today's north cemetery , is also being considered.
history
The monastery was founded in the 14th century by the city of Bonn as a leprosarium established with small apartments for the lepers to the 1412 Lazarus was come Chapel. Since leprosy no longer occurred in Europe in the 18th century, the leprosy was closed in 1713 and henceforth used as a manor, the income from which was used for charitable purposes. In 1868 the Catholic Association of Bonn bought the property from the city's poor administration and built an orphanage there until 1872, the St. Joseph an der Höhe teaching and educational institution . At the end of the First World War the home was bankrupt, the building, which was used as a hospital at times during the war, was empty. In 1920 the Redemptorist Order acquired the building and opened a religious school with boarding school, the Collegium Josephinum , as well as a monastery for the priests teaching in the school. The National Socialists closed the school and monastery in 1940 and maintained a teacher training institute there until 1944; later the building was used as a military hospital and soldiers' quarters. In 1945 the Redemptorists resumed school and monastery operations.
Today the monastery maintains a senior citizens' home, a house for assisted living and a youth home in addition to the school. 23 brothers live in the monastery (as of 2011).
architecture
The monastery church St. Josef an der Höhe is one of the oldest buildings in the monastery. The neo-Gothic church was built between 1883 and 1887 by the architect Heinrich Wiethase . The church is colorfully designed and has a neo-Gothic high altar (built in 1907). One of the most valuable works of art is a statue of Lazarus with a collecting cup from the 16th century, which originally stood in the chapel of the leprosarium.
literature
- Peter Jurgilewitsch, Wolfgang Pütz-Liebenow: The history of the organ in Bonn and in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis , Bouvier Verlag, Bonn 1990, ISBN 3-416-80606-9 , pp. 72-74. [not yet evaluated for this article]
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Individual evidence
- ↑ List of monuments of the city of Bonn (as of March 15, 2019), number A 212
- ↑ Oberster Höhweg / Oberer Höhweg , entry in the "Bonn road cadastre "
- ^ Josef Dietz: The Bonn field names . Ludwig Röhrscheid Verlag, Bonn 1973, ISBN 978-3-7928-0326-4 , p. 60. (= Publications of the Bonn City Archives , Volume 11)
- ↑ Falk Plan Bonn - 2nd edition (1963) ( online )
- ↑ Rolf Biniek: Leprosy in Bonn . In: Die Klapper: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Leprakunde eV , 9th year (2001) , pp. 1–7 (here: p. 2).
- ↑ Ruthild Stein: Historical Development Auerbergs. In: Renate Schoene / Karl Wilhelm Starcke / Ruthild Stein (eds.): Bonn-Auerberg yesterday-today-tomorrow . Bonn 1992, pp. 19–35, here pp. 21–23 (with illustrations).
- ↑ Der Aussatz in Bonn , Lepramuseum Münster-Kinderhaus (from Rolf Biniek: Der Aussatz in Bonn . In: Die Klapper: Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Leprakunde eV , 9th year (2001) , pp. 1-7.)
- ↑ a b c History of the Josefshöhe Monastery , accessed on September 2, 2011
- ↑ Ruthild Stein: Historical Development Auerbergs. In: Renate Schoene / Karl Wilhelm Starcke / Ruthild Stein (eds.): Bonn-Auerberg yesterday-today-tomorrow . Bonn 1992, p. 41 ff.
Coordinates: 50 ° 45 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 7 ° 4 ′ 36.6 ″ E