Edith-Stein-Karmel Tübingen, Carmelite monastery in Tübingen, Germany.
The Edith-Stein-Karmel is a Carmelite monastery in Tübingen positioned on the Neckarhalde high above the Neckar River. The building features a chapel with stained glass windows created by artist Sieger Köder.
Bishop Georg Moser founded the monastery in 1978 and named it after Edith Stein, a Carmelite saint and martyr. This establishment created a new contemplative community in the Tübingen region.
The monastery is named after Edith Stein, the philosopher and Carmelite nun who died in Auschwitz and was canonised in 1998. The nuns lived in enclosure, with an hour of inner prayer each morning and evening, plus the Liturgy of the Hours, daily Mass and work done in silence in their cells. The chapel's stained glass windows were designed by the priest and artist Sieger Köder.
The former monastery occupies the Villa Berghaus Hügel on the Neckarhalde, on the slope of the Schlossberg just outside the old town, above the Neckar. The monastic enclosure is closed, so there is no cloister visit; the building is now used by a counselling centre for traumatised refugees, opened there by 2015. View it from the surrounding lanes rather than expecting entry.
The former monastery guesthouse became a counselling centre for traumatised asylum seekers in 2015, run with the Südwest Presse reporting its opening in February. It offers psychological help to people recently arrived from war zones or who have suffered violence.
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