current status (12.11.2024):
14th and 15th of June 2025 an event shall show the history of the former monastery of Mönchengladbach. It shall focus on benedictinian life and monastical activities. singe displays of other subjects are possible though.
Sunday it the saints’s day with an annual family feast.
The weeks befor our event there will be more about the history: a lecture about Albert the great and about the architect, who also did the cologne cathedral. Here the anniversary website (German, under construction)
https://pfarre-sankt-vitus.de/aktuelles/750-Jahre-Chorweihe/
sure information:
- there will be some compensation, amount in discussion. Currrent figure 100€/day&person
- there will be free food for the reenactors, (soups or similar, modern kitchen)
- there will be accomodation. Preferred option: rooms of an adjacend building for camp beds, also possible host families or hotel in 500m distance on own expense. No tents, since no grounds for tent pegs
- the site will be locked up over night, so we probably don’t need guards
- in the cloister will be 4 modern pavillions 3m x3m as shelter
Location:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/uL4hqNq8A2ARxGrd9
If you are near, let me know, I have a key for private tours
There is also a nuns‘ cloister associated to the monastery since 1135 and the monks cared for some anchoresses
Reenactment:
around 1275 the frock is probably with sleeves, not skapulier shape. black, since it was established and most of the times wealthy black and fine fabric is suitable, must not be natural colour. Undergown mostly white, but dark is also possible. Nuns with dark veil over whithe veil and
List of persons and displays
| Name | dressed as | display/role | planned location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carsten | Benedictine abbot | organising | choir |
| Sonja U. | Benedictine nun | seals and writing | |
| Carlo | Bishop (Albertus Magnus) | bishop | inside church |
| Indra | Benedictine nun | medicine |
both possible |
| Karin | canoness | illumination | inside church |
| Sascha | Deacon | deacon | |
| Andy | Benedictine monk | stained glass | cloister |
| Bine | Benedictine nun | science, education and the church | inside church |
| Benno | Benedictine monk | science, education and the church | inside church |
| Sebastian | Benedictine monk | inks | |
| Sonja N | nun? | paraments | |
| Mario | Benedictine monk | Monastic fashion | |
| Uli | Benedictine nun | needlework | |
| Iris | working woman | organising, needlework | |
| Janna | Norbertine Canoness (?) | Games |
cloister |
| Monika | Norbertine canoness(?) | Games |
cloister |
| Simon | Benedictine monk | ? |
Programm:
- Sa:
- 12:00 SEXT
- 15:00 NON
- So:
- 11:00 Mass
- 15:00 NON
- optional:
- „dressing the bishop“: bishops are like onions: they have layers…
- „fashion-show of orders? Benedictine, ( Talar-/Skapulier-frock), Cisterciensian, Dominican, Prämonstratensian, canons, canonesses?
- tranlsation of relics / procession?