Saturday, October 15, 2016

Profession of Vows and Tour of Abbey Gardens



The Mass and Ceremony program had a watercolor I made of the abbey long ago! I did not take photos during the mass, but it will be on the Abbey's website soon!  

Festive breakfast table





Friends from another convent came and sang for her
 
Wit Mother Abbess and Fr. Rainer

Sister Martina presented me with this beautiful garden rose, since our earthly mother is no longer with us.




Mother Abbess invited us to wlak the cloitser grardens 



The Nuns' cemetery, in the words of the nun who guided us, is to be a place fo beauty and also festive.






There are many things that were done by a Sister Dorothea who lived in the 40s and 50s and was a wonderful artist




More views of cemetery





They hang laundry here

Sister Martin'as room is the dormer with tied curtains



a garden shed St Joseph






Looking up one of the ancient garden sheds


A smiling Madonna in a garden shed




Climbing


This linden tree was planted in 1914 after the secularization of religious houses ended in Germany




Parts of the medieval fortress city walls are inside the Abbey grounds

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Windows

I found this crucifix inside the tower--they housed many families during WWII and as an activity they taught them to make them--the artists sister Dorothea designed them. Mother let me bring it home!
Bow and arrow anyone?

The village below us



Wow

We also visited their Kindergarten





Vegetables 


Beautiful


1 comment:

Tereza Braga said...

Thanks for great pics! Trip down memory lane. I walked same paths.