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Maria Hilf Monastery Church, Cham

Maria Hilf Monastery Church, Cham

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Maria Hilf Monastery Church, Cham

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Location: Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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🕊️Hannelore 🥾⛰️

July 31, 2021

You should definitely see these beautiful churches!

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Andre

December 27, 2022

A very impressive church room.

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Staufer

July 30, 2024

Maria Hilf Monastery Church

The monastery church towers over the city and shapes the cityscape. The two towers of the monastery church and the magnificent facade are visible from afar.

Due to secularization in 1803, many monasteries and monasteries in Bavaria were closed and the priests and brothers expelled, including in Cham. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, the political and social mood changed and many new ones were founded.
In Cham, too, the population wanted a monastery, which the then town pastor Michael Schmied was happy to take up. With great pastoral foresight, he recognized that in addition to the parish structure, something else was needed for a living faith: a monastery and a retreat house.
Years of negotiations were held with the Diocese of Regensburg, with the Redemptorist order and the government. In 1898, the negotiations were finally successfully concluded and the Redemptorists could come to Cham.
In 1900, construction began outside the city on the new monastery church, the monastery and a retreat house. The Redemptorist Father Josef Schleinkofer, the first rector of the monastery, worked hard to realize the major project.
After two years of construction, the monastery and the church were completed. Work then began on the retreat house. The plans and designs for the entire church building were made by the Redemptorist brother Max Schmalzl, as was the interior: the entire painting of the church, altars, choir stalls, pulpit, confessionals, chair rails on the benches, etc.
In 1909, the monastery church was ceremoniously consecrated by the Regensburg bishop Anton von Henle. Over time, the monastery church was renovated several times inside and out. The retreat house underwent several additions and was renovated and brought up to date in the 1980s and 1990s. The old monastery building was sold to the district in 1989. Today, the Cham district music school is located in these rooms. The monastery's rooms are now housed in the retreat house part of the building.

Source: kloster-cham.de / wikipedia.de

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Maria Hilf Monastery Church, Cham

1. Blue Bridge over the River Regen – Lake Satzdorf loop from Cham (Oberpf)

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3. Biertor Cham – Cham City Gate loop from Cham (Oberpf)

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