Birgittenkloster Bremen
The Birgittenkloster Bremen is a company founded in 2002, a Roman Catholic convent of the Order of the Redeemer ( Birgitt medals) in the medieval Schnoor quarter of the Hanseatic city of Bremen.
It is different from the only other still existing convent of the Order in Germany, the monastery Altomuenster at Augsburg, to the 1911 re-founded by the Swedish converted to Islam Elisabeth Hesselblad new branch of - the Birgitt Order based on - received by the Reformation up to four monasteries old Piazza Farnese in Rome.
History
The Bremen Birgittenkloster is the first monastery was founded in the Middle Ages in Bremen. In 1998, a conclave of the Roman Catholic chaplain of the deanery of Bremen was the impetus for the founding of a monastery, the Bremer provost Ansgar Lüttel took up. He got in touch with Thekla Famiglietti, the abbess of the General Birgitt Order in Rome who consented immediately to build a Birgittenkloster in Bremen's Old Town. She was awarded the support of Pope John Paul II. Bremer Architect Ulrich Tilgner was commissioned to design the new monastery. Was realized the project in 2001 on the grounds of a former bakery in the Schnoor district near the River Weser. In just twelve months, the monastery was built. The first four sisters came to Bremen in order to give the necessary suggestions in the construction and learn German. There were Henryka sister from Scotland, sister Gloria from Mexico, Sister Daniela from Italy as well as the matron mother Walburga Hornig. First Prioress was the only native German under the now over 600 Birgitt sisters worldwide. Three other women religious were added later.
On 19 October 2002, Osnabrück Bishop Franz -Josef Bode inaugurated the monastery. It was visited an integral part of church life in Bremen and is not only of Catholics, but also by many Protestants and tourists.
Monastery buildings
The simple monastery complex, the terracotta -colored paint clearly stands out from the surrounding buildings, consists of three buildings. The two-storey convent the Birgitten live. The most striking part is the four-storey building which looks like a tower. He offers eleven rooms up to 17 guests overnight accommodations. On the first floor there are kitchen, dining room and library. A similar transition bridge connects the tower with the exam tract. For the third component, the chapel, Werner Grohs created from Wernigerode a stained glass window in the form of a book page, the text reproduces the prayer of the foundress Birgitta of Sweden: O Lord, come soon and make the night bright Just like dying crave so long to I am. according to you Fulfill you my desire and show me the way. I come to you as the injured person to the doctor. Give, O Lord, my heart calm. Amen. Altar, altar cross, ambo and tabernacle are from the sculptor Günter Lang from Eichstätt. The organ is a closet positive organ builder Werner Bosch from Sangerhausen.