Until 2017, a convent run by the Ursulines
convent in Ahrweiler
The former Kalvarienberg monastery in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler was founded by the Franciscans in 1630. The foundation stone of the church, which still exists today, was laid on 31 January 1664. In the course of secularisation, the Franciscans had to leave Calvary in 1803; the monastery became the property of the French state.</p
<p data-start="533" data-end="947">The history of Calvary, however, goes back even further: as early as 1440, a pilgrim returning from Jerusalem recognised a similarity in the landscape between Ahrweiler and the Holy City. He identified the hill to the south of Ahrweiler with the biblical Calvary and thus arranged for the site to be consecrated. The first chapel was built in 1440, the current church building was erected in 1664.</p
<p data-start="949" data-end="1235">In 1838, the Ursuline convent from Monschau moved into the former convent and founded a school with a boarding school for girls. This gave rise to numerous other convent foundations, including in Aachen, Trier, Saarbrücken, Krefeld and Koblenz. The buildings were rebuilt in 1897.
In 2017, the monastery was closed due to a lack of new members and economic challenges. The convent church was deconsecrated, but the sisters' choir with the crucifixion group and the reliquary of Blessed Sr Blandine were preserved. Some nuns continue to live in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. Some sisters remained in a smaller flat in the town of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.