Congregation of the Sisters of the Savior

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Grave site in the main cemetery in Würzburg

The Congregation of the Sisters of the Savior ( Congregatio Sororum an Sancto Redemptore , abbreviation : CSR ) is a Catholic women's order .

history

The religious institute originally emerged from the religious order founded on August 28, 1849 by Elisabeth Alphonsa Maria Eppinger (religious name: Mother Alfons Maria) under the name of the Order of the Daughters of the Divine Redeemer to feed poor sick people and to support other poor people (known as the Niederbronn Sisters ) .

At the request of the local bishop, this established a branch in Würzburg from 1854 . For political and legal reasons, this branch was converted into the legal form of an independent congregation and has since developed independently. On June 15, 1866, Sister Maria Honorine Steimer (1832–1903) took over the leadership of the "Congregation of the Daughters of the Most Holy Redeemer" (since 1969 Congregation of the Sisters of the Savior ) as the first General Superior . The first services at the Würzburg University Clinic, where they worked until 1979, were performed by the Redeemer Sisters from March 1894 (under General Superior Maria Alexandrina Hofmann) to the end of 1962 in the University Women's Clinic.

During the National Socialist era , the Redeemer Sisters were forced to sell the Theresienklinik they ran at Domerschulstrasse 1 (former Seebach canon court) to the German Reich. Ceiling paintings created in 1611 were discovered in the Allendorf Chapel in 1934 under whitewashing.

On March 16, 1945 , the parent company in Würzburg, including the church, was destroyed by British bombing raids. The reconstruction took place after the end of the war. The church could be consecrated again in 1952.

The sisters had other fields of activity from 1897 to 1952 in the university psychiatric clinic, in the neurological clinic from 1945 to 1968, from 1910 to 1979 in the surgical clinic, until 1978 in the medical clinic, until spring 1979 in the children's clinic, the ENT clinic and Dermatology Clinic, from 1912 to 1960 in the Dental Institute of the University, from 1923 to 1968 in the Eye Clinic and from November 1920 in the Medical Polyclinic. From 1922 to September 1995, the Redeemer Sisters also worked in the nursing school.

In addition to Germany with a focus on Lower Franconia, the order is now also represented in North America (since 1924, Sisters of the Holy Redeemer in Pennsylvania ) and in Tanzania (since 1957/1958). It has 369 sisters (as of 2013). He is primarily dedicated to nursing the sick and the elderly, upbringing and training, as well as pastoral and pastoral care. The congregation in Schweinfurt has been running the St. Josef Hospital since 1931 .

A well-known member of the order is Sister Maria Julitta Ritz (1882–1966), whose beatification process has begun.

Superior General

  • Maria Honorine Steimer (1866–1880)
  • Dionysia Blank (1880–1885)
  • Alexandrina Hofmann (1885–1905)
  • Lidwina Kullmann (1905-1910)
  • Alexandrina Hofmann (1910–1914)
  • Helene Müller (1914–1921)
  • Basilissa Schneider (1921–1933)
  • Azela Hammer (1933-1947)
  • Gundulfa Schöpf (1947–1959)
  • Hiltrudis Schnabel (1959–1969)
  • Gertrud Stegmann (1971–1983)
  • Ursula Müller (1983–1989)
  • Ehrentrud Pfuhlmann (1989–1995)
  • Veronika Stauch (1995-2007)
  • Juliane Friedrich (2007-2013)
  • Monika Edinger (2013-)

See also

literature

  • Theodor Kramer: The Congregation of the Daughters of the Most Holy Redeemer 1866-1966. A chronicle. Wuerzburg 1966.
  • Erik Soder from Güldenstubbe : Blossoms and thorns. Waystations of the Sisters of the Redeemer. In: Festschrift 125 Years of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Redeemer 1866–1991. Würzburg 1991, pp. 19-50.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Weiss : The Catholic Church in the 19th Century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 430-449 and 1303, here: pp. 442 f.
  2. ↑ Klaus Witt City: church and state in the 20th century. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes, Volume I-III / 2, Theiss, Stuttgart 2001-2007; III / 1–2: From the transition to Bavaria to the 21st century. 2007, ISBN 978-3-8062-1478-9 , pp. 453–478 and 1304 f., Here: pp. 458–463: The era of the people's and resistance bishop Matthias Ehrenfried (1924–1948). P. 462.
  3. ↑ Stefan Kummer : Architecture and fine arts from the beginnings of the Renaissance to the end of the Baroque. In: Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): History of the city of Würzburg. 4 volumes; Volume 2: From the Peasants' War in 1525 to the transition to the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1814. Theiss, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-8062-1477-8 , pp. 576–678 and 942–952, here: pp. 605 f.
  4. ↑ Erik Soder von Güldenstubbe : The Congregation of the Sisters of the Redeemer and their work at clinics of the Julius Maximilians University in Würzburg. In: Würzburger medical history reports 23, 2004, pp. 61–68.
  5. ↑ a b Personal data , in: Die Tagespost , August 20, 2013, p. 4.
  6. ↑ The name Mary precedes all Sisters of the Redeemer