Study seminar St. Wolfgang (Regensburg)
The study seminar St. Wolfgang-Westmünster was a Catholic boys seminar in Regensburg and was built according to the plans of the Munich architect Franz Kießling. It was founded in 1882 by Bishop Ignatius of Senestrey and existed until July 1998.
history
At the Council of Trent in 1563, a decree was issued according to which all dioceses should set up episcopal boys' seminars to promote the next generation of priests. In the diocese of Regensburg, this did not happen until 1844 in the Metten monastery and almost forty years later in Regensburg. A boys' seminar was opened there in October 1882 in the vacated building complex of the former Reichsstift Obermünster . Operation was started with 122 pupils. At the end of the 19th century, the number of seminarians was around 200. They attended the nearby old grammar school on Egidienplatz.
In 1930 an extension was inaugurated and put into operation. At the beginning of the Second World War, the boys' seminar, like most of the others in Bavaria, was to be closed by order of the Minister of Culture Wagner . However, after an intervention by the Munich Cardinal von Faulhaber , the closure could be prevented. In September 1941 the new building was used as a military hospital and some of the boys had to be housed in the nearby seminary. After the grammar school classes in Regensburg had ceased on November 10, 1944, most of the seminarians were taken out of the city with the Kinderland dispatch.
After the war, the premises of the boys' seminar were still used as a military hospital; it was not until October 1948 that they were fully available again for the students. During this time the seminar reached the highest occupancy rate with 415 boys.
When the old grammar school moved into a new building in the west of the city in the 1964/65 school year and acted as the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium in Regensburg , the study seminar was also moved to the west of the city. In 1969, they moved into a new building in Weinweg. Since then, the episcopal study seminar in Regensburg has been called Westmünster . The number of seminarians was over 240 at the beginning, around 110 in 1985 and only 77 at the end of 1988. A further decline in the number of seminarians led to the dissolution of the Konvikt.
In July 1998, the Ordinaries' Conference confirmed the closure of the seminar at the end of the school year.
Today the Bishop Manfred Müller School is located on the sports fields . The school / university area of the Diocese of Regensburg is housed in the former rooms of the study seminar. These are: School / University Department, School Foundation and Religious Education Seminar (RPS). The house is now called: Episcopal Administration - Westmünster House - Weinweg 31, 93049 Regensburg.
Seminar directors
- 1882–1888: Franz Josef Ludwigs
- 1933–1964: Anton Meindl
- 1964–1988: Johann Staufer
- 1988–1990: Johann Fröhler
- 1991–1997: Bernhard Hofer
- 1998–1999: Christian Vieracker
Prominent students
- Theobald Schrems (1893–1963), co-founder of the Regensburger Domspatzen music high school
literature
- Christian Vieracker: The Episcopal Study Seminar St. Wolfgang in Regensburg. Universitätsverlag Regensburg 1999. ISBN 3-930480-70-0 .
- Paul Mai : The boys' convent Obermünster - Westmünster in Regensburg. In: Albertus Magnus Gymnasium (Hrsg.): Festschrift zum Schuljubiläum , Regensburg 1988, pp. 313–329.
Individual evidence
- ^ Kießling architecture. In: Franz and Maria Kießling Foundation. Retrieved on July 26, 2020 (German).
- ^ Paul Mai: Das Knabenkonvikt Obermünster , p. 317.
- ^ Paul Mai: Das Knabenkonvikt Obermünster 1988, p. 320.
- ↑ Christian Vieracker: The Episcopal Study Seminar St. Wolfgang in Regensburg , 1999, p. 149.
Coordinates: 49 ° 1 ′ 34.7 " N , 12 ° 4 ′ 7.4" E