Residence Pope Benedict XVI.
The house of Pope Benedict XVI. in Pentling , the former home of Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI. , today serves as a biographical museum , meeting place and houses an archive. The house is run by the Pope Benedict XVI Institute. managed.
history
Immediately after Joseph Ratzinger was appointed to the University of Regensburg in 1969 , he had the house planned by an architect according to his ideas; It was ready to move into at the end of 1970. Since the house was also to be the center of his brother's life, the church musician Georg Ratzinger and his sister Maria - who ran Joseph Ratzinger's household - the parents of Traunstein were transferred to the nearby Ziegetsdorf cemetery in 1974 . The sister, who died in Pentling in 1991, is also buried there.
Joseph Ratzinger kept the house after he was called to Munich as Archbishop in 1977 and also after moving to Rome in 1982; it should remain a meeting place for the siblings. The house in Pentling remained the registered primary residence of Joseph Ratzinger, even after he became Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. had become. As Pope Benedict, Ratzinger visited his home in Pentling in 2006; The last visit for the time being, the now emeritus Pope made in June 2020 on the occasion of a private trip to Regensburg.
In September 2010, Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict XVI., Handed the house over to the Pope Benedict XVI Institute. After renovation and remodeling, it was opened two years later, in September 2012, as a museum and meeting place. The ceremonial blessing of the house by the former Bishop of Regensburg and now Archbishop of the Curia, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, was attended by other spiritual dignitaries and other guests, as well as the Apostolic Nuncio Jean-Claude Périsset , Georg Gänswein , the Secretary of Pope Benedict and the brother of Pope Georg Ratzinger , Papal Honorary Prelate , at.
Location and structure
The single-family house is located southeast of the Regensburg motorway junction at Pentlinger Bergstrasse 6. There is a bronze bust of Benedict XVI near the entrance. by the Surberg sculptor Johann Brunner. A garden belongs to the property, here are copies of two bronze sculptures by Christine Stadler . The sober, whitewashed two-story building has a gable roof . There is a loggia on the garden side . A garage is attached to the house.
Premises
The furniture in the house is partly preserved in the original, partly reconstructions. In the former study of Joseph Ratzinger is the library of the professor and later Pope, consisting partly of books left behind - with a handwritten ownership note - and partly of later purchased additions, so that almost the holdings from 1977 can be seen. The desk is a copy of the one still in Benedict XVI. Owned original, on which he has been working since 1953 and which he acquired in 1959 from the Theological-Philosophical University in Freising before moving to Bonn .
The kitchen on the ground floor is furnished with a corner seat and formica-coated furniture from the early 1970s, some of which has been reconstructed.
In the rooms formerly reserved for the Joseph Ratzinger siblings, the life's work is documented by memorabilia. In the case of the brother, Domkapellmeister in Regensburg , these are scores and sound carriers with recordings made by Georg Ratzinger; In the case of Sister Maria Ratzinger, these are the typewriter on which she did paperwork for her brother Joseph, as well as her cookbook and sewing kit in memory of decades of housekeeping for her brother Joseph.
The former bedroom has now been rededicated as a memory room for all three siblings; There is also the probably oldest surviving document from the pen of Joseph Ratzinger, a wish list addressed to the Christ Child from December 1934 - the seven-year-old Joseph Ratzinger expressed wishes for a bulkhead , a green chasuble and a heart of Jesus . The former dining room on the ground floor now serves as the meeting place's conference room. In the basement is an archive of the Pope Benedict XVI Institute. housed; there is, among other things, the theological library of Vinzenz Pfnürs . Joseph Ratzinger's guest book can be viewed in digital form at the entrance.
The house has its own chapel , which Joseph Ratzinger had installed.
literature
- Rudolf Voderholzer : The Papst-Haus in Pentling will be a “place of encounter and documentation” . In: Rudolf Voderholzer, Christian Schaller and Franz-Xaver Heibl: Communications Institute Pope Benedict XVI. Vol. 5 - 2012 , Schnell and Steiner, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-7954-2642-2 , pp. 146-148
- Max Hägler: A papal gift. The Pope himself resides in the Vatican - and his brother no longer has enough strength to maintain the property near Regensburg: Now Benedict XVI is giving away. his house . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 17, 2010. Article in the network
- Wolfgang Wittl: Blue and white tiled modesty. So this is where he wrote his essays, and here he also brushed his teeth: Joseph Ratzinger's former home in Pentling can now be viewed . In Süddeutsche Zeitung of September 22, 2012. Article in the network
Web links
- Former home of Prof. Ratzinger a "place of encounter and documentation" . Institute Pope Benedict XVI.
- The Pope's residence in Pentling . Community administration Pentling
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rolf Thym: The Pentlinger Pope. When Benedict XVI. Local pastor was - an exhibition In: Süddeutsche Zeitung from 8./9. April 2006 article online (PDF; 148 kB)
- ↑ Benedict XVI. visits his former home in Pentling , BR24, June 21, 2020, accessed on June 23, 2020.
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 15.5 ″ N , 12 ° 3 ′ 59.5 ″ E