Ursulines in Berlin
Ursulines worked in Berlin-Kreuzberg , Rudow and Berlin-Dahlem from 1854 to 1979.
history
Berlin-Mitte 1854–1855
In 1851 a Catholic secondary school for girls was opened by the Catholic Church on Jägerstrasse in Berlin-Mitte. On May 1, 1854, the first three Ursulines came from Breslau to take over the management of the school.
Berlin-Kreuzberg 1855–1877
In 1855 they moved into a piece of land at Lindenstrasse 48 (later 39) in Berlin-Kreuzberg, which the St. Hedwigs-Gemeinde had bought for them. They continued school there and also ran a boarding school and an orphanage, and later also a teachers' college. In 1857 they received the Pope's approval for the establishment of the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception of Mary . This was the first Catholic monastery in the Mark Brandenburg since the Reformation. The new chapel was consecrated in 1860. In 1861 a new main building was built.
The Ursulines enjoyed great popularity among the girls and pensioners, the empress received them, and the emperor and other personalities such as the industrialist Borsig donated for their facilities.
In 1875 the Berlin police chief issued a ban on monasteries during the culture war . It was closed in 1877. The teaching was continued by secular women .
Rudow 1877-1888
The six Ursuline sisters were able to move to a property in Rudow , then near Berlin, which they had been given for use in 1872. In 1884 they opened a new chapel for Catholic parishioners there. Their house became a meeting place and refuge for Catholic priests and religious in times of distress.
Berlin-Kreuzberg 1889–1937
In 1889 the Ursulines were allowed to return to their monastery in Lindenstrasse in Berlin-Kreuzberg and continue running the school and boarding school. In 1912 a new, larger school building was completed and a grammar school was set up in it.
In 1937 the monastery was closed under pressure from the government. The building complex had to be sold to the neighboring fire station.
Berlin-Dahlem 1937–1939
The Ursulines were able to use a piece of land in Berlin-Dahlem for school operations. In 1939 this was also banned there. The sisters left Berlin and founded a school in Chile or went to the monastery in Neustadt an der Dosse.
St. Ursula School 1948–1968
In 1948 the Ursulines were able to run a school again. In 1966 a new school building was built in Berlin-Zehlendorf and in 1968 it became the sponsorship of the Episcopal Ordinariate.
In 1979 the last Ursulines left Berlin and went to Niederaltaich.
Further use of the building
Berlin-Kreuzberg Lindenstrasse 39
The front building at Lindenstrasse 39 (today Axel-Springer-Strasse 39) has been preserved, but the decorative elements on the outer facade have been removed. It has been owned by the State of Berlin since 1976 and is used as an artist's house with a café.
The side buildings and the chapel were damaged in 1945 and then removed.
Alt-Rudow 42-46
The villa from 1874 in Alt-Rudow 42-44 (previously Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße 9) has been preserved. The chapel in Alt Rudow 46 was demolished in 1967 and replaced by a new building, and the former farm buildings are no longer preserved.
literature
- Andrea Bergler, Helga Lieser (arrangement): Lindenstrasse 39, monastery school and artist house, documents and materials on the metamorphosis of a building in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin 1992.
- Marina Wesner (ed.): Kreuzberg and its houses of worship. Berlin 2007. pp. 188-191
- Ursulinenkloster Berlin (ed.): 100 years of the Ursulines in Berlin . Berlin 1954
- Lindenstrasse 39 monastery school . In: Kreuzberg Museum for Urban Development and Social History (ed.): Topography Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg. Berlin-Kreuzberg, 2016. P. 149 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Axel-Springer-Strasse 39, Berlin State Monument Authority
- ^ The Ursuline Monastery Kreuzberger Chronik, February 2008, by Werner von Westhafen
- ↑ The Ursulines in Rudow Berlin Week 2016, about the exhibition Ursulines in Rudow of the Heimatverein
- ^ History of the St. Joseph Chapel, St. Joseph Parish, Berlin-Rudow