Salesian convent Koblenz

The former Salesian convent in Koblenz-Moselweiß

The former Salesian convent with the convent church (right)

The monastery church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary

The Salesian Convent in Koblenz was a monastery of the Order of the Visitation of Mary in Koblenz . The nunnery, founded in the Moselweiß district in 1863 , was given up in 1986. Then a sports boarding school moved in and the monastery church of the Visitation was taken over by the Society of St. Pius X.

history

The Salesians moved into a building in Moselweiß in 1863 and set up their monastery here. A vaulted cellar under the building indicates that the castle house of the robber baron Johann Lutter von Kobern used to stand here. On March 19, 1863, the new monastery was inaugurated by Dean Philipp Krementz . The sisters set up a boarding school for girls with a school in a building built in the same year next to the monastery . The monastery church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary followed from 1866 to 1867 and was inaugurated on December 10, 1867.

The monastery was completely destroyed in the air raid on Koblenz on December 22, 1944. The reconstruction lasted from 1945 to 1948. On May 14, 1986 the Salesian Sisters gave up their monastery. Then a sports boarding school moved into the building of the former boarding school for girls. The monastery church was taken over by the Society of St. Pius X. in October 1986 and blessed by Marcel Lefebvre . Parts of the former monastery were bought by the Society of Priests in 1998.

construction

At the school building of the former monastery, the corner at the intersection of two streets was designed as a three-quarter tower with a dome and a lantern . The three-story school building is a simple plastered building on a T-shaped floor plan.

The neo-Gothic monastery church of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is built on the south-west side. On the street side, it has eight slender tracery windows and an arched frieze under the eaves . After the reconstruction, the interior was kept simple. The flat-roofed hall ends in the northwest with a choir . Here is a neo-Romanesque altar that was erected later . At right angles to this in the northeast, the hall closes off with the former nuns' gallery . There are also tracery windows built into the courtyard. On the outside wall of the courtyard side there is a figure of Our Lady under a canopy .

On the southeast end of the monastery grounds is the so-called “Kröllsche Garten”, which today is a forest-like green area, partly built on. The entire area is surrounded by a circumferential wall made of quarry stone , which is largely preserved today with interruptions.

Monument protection

The former convent of the Salesian women is a protected cultural monument according to the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . It is located in Koblenz-Moselweiß at Bahnhofsweg 6, Koblenzer Straße 2–12 .

literature

History of the monastery from the Visitation of the Salesian Sisters Koblenz-Moselweiß. Koblenz 1963.
Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .