Ohrbeck Monastery

Ohrbeck Abbey is a Franciscan monastery in Holzhausen, a district of Georgsmarienhütte in the district of Osnabrück . The Franciscan Order and the Diocese of Osnabrück operate the educational institution and adult education centre "Haus Ohrbeck" in the monastery.

After the end of the First World War, the desire for a Franciscan monastery in their area grew among the Catholic population of the farming communities of Holzhausen and Ohrbeck. In 1916, the farmer Poggemann made a four-hectare forest area on the slope of the Boberg on the border with Holzhausen available for this purpose. In the same year, the Prussian government gave permission for the construction of the monastery. The first brothers of the Saxon Franciscan Province came to Ohrbeck on June 18, 1918 and moved into a wooden barrack in August 1919. The retreat house, monastery and monastery church were completed in 1926 according to plans by the architect Johannes Nellesen from Münster; on the part of the Franciscans, Father Didakus Falke was responsible.

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