Sisters of Divine Providence (Mainz)

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Street view of the monastery in Mainz-Finthen
Courtyard view of the Finther monastery

The Sisters of Divine Providence ( Latin Congregatio Divinae Providentia , abbreviation CDP ) are a Catholic religious order with a focus on school and health service, which was founded in 1851 by Wilhelm Emmanuel von Ketteler , Bishop of Mainz , and Stephanie / Fanny Friederike Amelia de la Roche- Starkenfels (1812–1857), a German nobleman who converted to Catholicism in 1851.

On October 29, 1851, a monastery opened in Finthen . Since April 15, 1860, the Provincial Mother House has been located on Mainzer Stefansstrasse, near the St. Stephan Church . In connection with the Kulturkampf , school service had to be temporarily given up in 1874.

Today there are three provinces worldwide : Germany, America-Caribbean and Korea ; also Peru , which is not administered as a province but as a dependent "region". The internationally oriented community has 750 members with religious vows and 300 supporting secular employees.

In Germany the order led a. a. following facilities: Josefsstift (1890–1973), today Ketteler Hospital in Offenbach am Main , Gastell's Hospice, later Rochus Hospital in Mombach (1892–1984), Elisabethen Women's Clinic (1893–1906), Marien Hospital (1898 –1912), Heinsberg Municipal Hospital (1958–1969), Hildegardis Hospital, today the Mainz Catholic Clinic , (since 1912), Marienhospital Darmstadt (1930–2015) and the Mainz Wilhelm-Emmanuel-von-Ketteler School (since 1973) .

In 1888 the order settled in Oberursel (Taunus) , where it runs the Ketteler-La Roche-Schule, a technical school for social affairs, specializing in social pedagogy , and a higher vocational school for social assistance. At the end of the 2000s, the order planned to give up the extensive monastery complex on the edge of the forest in Oberursel due to a lack of staff; the school in Oberursel remains, however.

One of the Order's graves is located in the Mainz main cemetery , another in the cemetery in the Mainz district of Finthen.

literature

  • Constitutions of the Cooperative of the Mainz Sisters of Divine Providence . Johann Falk III. Sons, Mainz 1884.
  • Karl Philipp Preller: 100 Years of the Mainz Sisters of Divine Providence (1851–1951). A Ketteler factory and monument . Sisters of Divine Providence, Mainz 1951.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Schatz: History of the Diocese of Limburg , Mainz 1983, p. 209.
  2. ↑ Modern city villas instead of monasteries , fr-online.de, message from May 4, 2009.

Coordinates: 49 ° 59 ′ 13.5 ″  N , 8 ° 10 ′ 32.7 ″  E