Redemptorist Monastery in Heiligenstadt

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St. Gerhard's monastery church

The Redemptorist Monastery of St. Klemens is a Redemptorist monastery in Heilbad Heiligenstadt in northern Thuringia .

history

In 1919 the first Redemptorists came to Heiligenstadt in Eichsfeld and in 1920 they created the first branch in the St. Klemens House . In 1925 the foundation stone was laid for what is now the St. Clement Monastery and the Church of St. Gerhard. The main task of the monastery was the parish mission, but also the pastoral care of confessionals. During the last years of the German division, the monastery was directly subordinate to Rome, as direct cooperation with the Cologne province was no longer possible.

monastery

The monastery, built from 1925 to 1927 by the architect Adam Weinhag (1879–1937) in the neo-baroque style based on Sicilian models, was built from local shell limestone . It consists of the following parts:

  • the monastery building of St. Clement
  • the St. Gerhard Church
  • the monastery garden.

The monastery building has an important theological library in a multi-storey hall library with two galleries and a separate monastery chapel. The St. Clement House, built as a transition, was used as a retreat house after moving into the monastery .

Church of St. Gerhard

The church, built as a monastery church, has been the church of the St. Gerhard congregation since 1964. Column floors divide the church into a central nave and two side aisles . Contrary to the plans, a church tower was no longer built. The church is equipped with a baroque altar and pulpit.

The organ with 21 stops on two manuals and pedal was built in the 1930s by the organ builder Krell, Duderstadt, and redesigned in neo-baroque style in the 1960s by Gerhard Kühn, Merseburg.

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
Principal 8th'
Hollow flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
flute 4 ′
octave 2 ′
Fifth 2 2 / 3 '
Sif flute 1'
mixture 4-way
Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
Darling Dumped 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 4 ′
Sesquialtera 2-way
Fifth 1 1 / 3 '
Tremulant
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′
Octave bass 8th'
Cello bass 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
bassoon 16 ′

Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P

  1. ↑ currently Terzian
  2. ↑ currently Zimbel
  3. ↑ currently vacant

Web links

Commons : Redemptorist Monastery Heiligenstadt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedhelm Krause, Felicitas Marwinski: Handbook of historical book stocks in Germany. Volume 20 Thuringia , Olms-Weidman Hildesheim.Zürich.New York 1999, pp. 26-27

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 23.5 "  N , 10 ° 8 ′ 44.1"  E