St. Arnold
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St. Arnold
Municipality Neuenkirchen (Kreis Steinfurt)
Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 50 ″ N , 7 ° 24 ′ 5 ″ E
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| Height : | approx. 50 m |
| Postal code : | 48485 |
| Area code : | 05973 |
St. Arnold ( Low German Sünt Arnold ) is a district of Neuenkirchen in the Steinfurt district in North Rhine-Westphalia .
history
The foundation of the St. Arnold Mission House
The founding of the St. Arnold Mission House with the attached mission school ( Arnold-Janssen-Gymnasium ) led to the renaming of the Neuenkirchen Land railway station to “St. Arnold ". At the same time the postmark “St. Arnold ”and set up the post office in the mission house. The new district of Neuenkirchen was also named St. Arnold.
Arnold Janssen , who was canonized in 2003, is the founder of the Steyler Missionaries, named after the place where they were founded in Steyl, the Netherlands. Its official name is "Society of the Divine Word" or Latin Societas Verbi Divini (SVD). In 1928/1929 the order established a branch with a boarding school in what would later become St. Arnold, which was primarily intended to train new missionaries . Until then, there was only the Clemenshafen as the end point of the Max-Clemens Canal (1731-1840), the Neuenkirchen Land railway station, the so-called "reprisals camp" (1914-1915) for French prisoners of war, for Russian prisoners of war and large Ammunition store for the production of artillery ammunition.
The grave of the Steyler missionary brother Josef "Kostka" Wasel , who died in 1946, can be found in the monastery cemetery, who saw the Passion of Christ daily during the services and whose miraculous healing played an important role in the canonization process of the founder of the order, Arnold Janssen. The “Brother Kostka Community” has many members - not only here, but also throughout Germany.
St. Arnold since World War II
The now densely populated village (approx. 3000 inhabitants) did not emerge until after the Second World War . Many refugees and displaced persons from the former eastern regions of Germany settled in St. Arnold and built a new home.
The Arnold-Janssen-Gymnasium, which emerged from the founding of the school by the Steyler Missionaries, has been under the sponsorship of the Münster diocese since 1996 , after the boarding school was given up in the 1980s. The grammar school is one of the largest schools in the Münsterland (approx. 1150 students in the 2006/2007 school year).
Since 1998, the mission house itself has been sponsored by the diocese of Münster. On June 30, 2008, after almost 80 years of service, the last missionaries left St. Arnold. In 2016 the mission house with the attached church was demolished to make room for an extension of the grammar school with specialist and classrooms, auditorium, cafeteria and a small chapel. The school's large sports hall is still used by various sports clubs in the Neuenkirchen community.
societies
- The sports club TuS St. Arnold eV, founded in 1964, is also located in St. Arnold . It was represented in the karate Bundesliga for a long time and has produced several German champions in this sport. The stadium was inaugurated in 1968 by former national coach Sepp Herberger and has been named after him ever since.
- The Heimatverein Dorf St. Arnold eV has existed since 2000.In its museum at Droste-Hülshoff-Straße 7 there is, among other things, an old classroom based on the old village farmer's school, a shop fitting from a former bakery and pictures and writings from the St Arnold.
- Since the construction of the RadBahn Münsterland , the ECN (Eisenbahn-Club Nordwest-Münsterland eV) has its club house (platform 7) at the former St. Arnold train station. The association organizes an annual draisine championship there.
Personalities
The 1987 Nobel laureate in physics, Johannes Georg Bednorz , and the former professional footballer Hans Weiner , formerly Hertha BSC and Bayern Munich, were born here.
Web links
- St. Arnold in the Westphalian Cultural Atlas
Individual evidence
- ↑ ecn-online homepage of the Railway Club Northwest-Münsterland