Rheinallee 22 (Boppard)

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The St. Michael community center from the Rhine - in the foreground are the remains of the Sand Gate.

The building Rheinallee 22 , also called Alumnat St. Michael , is a former alumnate in Boppard , which was opened in connection with the establishment of a full high school in 1904. Since the late 1980s it has served the parish of St. Severus as a youth and community center.

location

The building at Rheinallee 22 in Boppard is located on the Rhine, outside of the medieval city fortifications of the Upper Town in the immediate vicinity of the Sand Gate .

history

On August 15, 1901, the board of trustees of the orphanage foundation founded by dean Johann Baptist Berger decided to build the alumnate. At that time, the Boppard orphanage , which is located on the Rhine in the immediate vicinity of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit and the St. Joseph Boys' House also belonged to this foundation. In 1902 the construction of the alumnate between the Rhine and the St. Josef boys' house began. Completed it was in 1904. Architect of the building was made of Mayen originating Josef Mockenhaupt , who also directed the construction of the new building for the school. The initiative to build the alumnate came from pastor Jakob Paulus, who wanted to create a home for foreign students from the Bopparder Gymnasium (later the Kant Gymnasium ). This was considered important because the Boppard Progymnasium was converted into a full high school in 1902. In 1904, 34 alumni and alumni moved into the house. A spiritual director took over the management of the Allumnat. The Sisters of Mercy of St. Karl Borromeo , who also headed the Hospital of the Holy Spirit and the other institutions belonging to the Orphanage Foundation in Boppard.

In May 1939, the continuation of the alumnate was prohibited by the rulers of National Socialism . However , it was continued after the Second World War . While 11 sisters were still active in the alumni in 1951, the Borromean women had to give up economic management and care of the house due to a lack of sisters in 1954, but they continued to live there. Their duties in the alumni were initially taken over by the Caritas Sisters , who were replaced by Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary in 1962 .

At times, over 80 students lived in the alumnate. Due to falling birth rates and social change, however, the occupancy rate steadily declined from the mid-1970s. Initially, attempts were made to counteract this development by opening up pupils of all types of schools, which, however, also affected the quality of the care. In 1983, the Catholic Youth Care Foundation (the former Orphanage Foundation) had to close the boarding school in St. Michael for economic reasons.

The committees of the parish of St. Severus von Boppard, which had been looking for a parish and youth center for a long time, now tried, in coordination with the Episcopal Vicariate and the city of Boppard, to accommodate these institutions in St. Michael. A license agreement was concluded with the foundation, whose board also includes the pastors of the parish of St. Severus, and the necessary renovation work began in November 1986. The costs were essentially shared by the diocese of Trier and the Rhein-Hunsrück district . As a result, the Catholic Youth Care Foundation sold the building of the former orphanage and later boatmen's orphanage as well as the St. Klara kindergarten to the St. Ghost. While the Schiffer Children's Home was finally closed due to a lack of demand, the kindergarten has been housed in the new St. Michael community center since the late 1980s.

After the Borromean Sisters had moved from the community center to the hospital due to a shortage of nurses in order to concentrate on their main task in Boppard, the convent of the Sacred Heart Sisters from House Sabelsberg , whose order goes back to Matthew Kadalikattil , moved to St. Michael in 2010 .

On October 9, 2013, the figure of St. Michael was taken down from the roof to completely renovate it for 15,000 euros. On December 16, 2013, it was reattached to its original location.

Facilities

In today's community center are u. a. the daycare St. Clare (8 groups with about 150 seats), the nursery of St. Michael and the Youth Center (JBS) St. Michael. There is also a chapel, event rooms and a convent of the Sacred Heart Sisters in the facility.

description

Community Center St. Michael

The three-storey plastered building was divided into red sandstone. The building has a mighty seven-axis window front facing the Rhine. The Rhine front is completed by two parallel, curved gables in the forms of the German Renaissance . Below the eastern gable are four of the seven window axes and below the western gable there are three, with the exception of the ground floor, where there are five window axes. On the first and second floors, the middle window axis of the western part of the building protrudes as a three-sided broken chapel bay window. The sandstone portal, to which an outside staircase leads, was built in Renaissance forms. The windows on the Rhine front have changing shapes. Those on the ground floor are rectangular and those on the first floor have an arched arch. The second floor is provided with coupled rectangular windows. The windows of the chapel bay window are lancet windows on the first floor and ogival tracery windows with colored glazing on the second floor . The windows flanking the chapel bay window on the second floor also have tracery .

Both gables have spherical decorations and are divided into symmetrical rectangular fields by pilasters and cranked cornices . On the pilasters there are rectangular panels with diamond reliefs. A bronze figure stands between the two gables and shows the Archangel Michael with a sword in his right hand, which he wields over his head, and a shield in his left hand. Behind the gables is a continuous gable roof with an octagonal roof turret with a curved hood in the middle .

The eastern and western side fronts repeat the structure of the Rhine front in the first two and three axes, respectively. The eastern double axis is completed with a slated tail gable. This is followed by an elongated, unadorned wall with 14 axes. The western side front is also elongated, unadorned and has no gables. To the south the building has a simple stepped gable with a round stair tower.

The gable roof is covered with slate and has a wide dormer window , which is interrupted in the middle by a small diaphragm and bordered on the sides by polygonal turrets.

Monument protection

The building with the house number Rheinallee 22 is protected as a registered cultural monument within the meaning of the Monument Protection and Maintenance Act (DSchG) of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. In addition, it has been part of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2002 .

Web links

Commons : Rheinallee 22  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (ed.): The art monuments of Rhineland-Palatinate . tape 8 : The art monuments of the Rhein-Hunsrück district. Part 2: Former county St. Goar, the first town of Boppard I . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-422-00567-6 , p. 481-482 .
  2. ↑ a b c Boppard schools before 1945 . In: Around in the Boppard . No. 47 , 2000, pp. 15-18 .
  3. ↑ a b c 150 years of Borromean women in Boppard Hospital. (PDF) p. 16 , accessed on March 20, 2013 .
  4. ^ Johann Josef Klein: History of Boppard . 1909, p. 249 , urn : nbn: de: 0128-1-36929 .
  5. ^ Bernhard Kahl: The Catholic parishes . In: Heinz E. Missling (Ed.): Boppard. History of a city on the Middle Rhine. Third volume . Dausner Verlag, Boppard 2001, ISBN 3-930051-02-8 , pp. 457 .
  6. ↑ 150 years of Borromean women in Boppard Hospital. (PDF) pp. 39–40 , accessed on March 20, 2013 .
  7. ^ Parish letter for the 4th quarter of 2010 (PDF; 4.6 MB) Retrieved on March 12, 2013 .
  8. ↑ In 2009 holy masses were still held in Haus Sabelsberg, in 2010 this is no longer the case, as the two parish letters show. Parish letter for the 4th quarter of 2009 (PDF; 3.8 MB) Retrieved on March 31, 2013 . and parish letter for the 4th quarter of 2010. (PDF; 4.6 MB) Retrieved on March 12, 2013 .
  9. ↑ 111 years have left their mark on the patron saint of the St. Michael parish center. Retrieved January 14, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Ralf Hofmann: After a thorough renovation, the figure of St. Michael came back to its original place today. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 25, 2016 ; accessed on January 14, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sankt-severus.de
  11. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Rhein-Hunsrück district. Mainz 2019, p. 13 (PDF; 1.7 MB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '56.3 "  N , 7 ° 35' 49.7"  E