Kloster Galiläa

The foundation of Galiläa convent took place in 1484, after the Dominican nuns of the Klausenkapelle from Klausenberg acquired the village of Hückelheim in February 1483 through a donation from the married couple Henneke von Berninghausen and Margaretha von Hückelheim. Previously, the nuns lived in a hermitage near St. Michael's Chapel. The convent was spiritually supervised by the Dominican monastery of Soest. Around 1750, the original building was demolished and replaced by a new, four-winged structure. In 1810, the convent was secularized as the last institution of its kind in Westphalia. After initial resistance from the nuns, led by Prioress Pranghe, the dissolution was symbolically carried out by forcibly extinguishing the hearth fire, after which the Dominican nuns moved out on December 14, 1810. The church and three of the convent wings were demolished in 1860.

Galiläa convent was situated in the northwest of the city of Meschede, nestled in the landscape of the Hochsauerlandkreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Of the former convent complex, one wing remains today and is used as a residential building. The historical bell of the convent is located in the chapel at the South Cemetery of Meschede. The area west of the former convent has since become an industrial zone.

• Laer Castle (Castle, approx. 1195 m away)
• Stockhausen Manor (Manor house and estate, approx. 3148 m away)
• Eversberg Ruin (Ruin, approx. 4949 m away)
• Bockum Manor (Bockum) (Manor house and estate, approx. 5573 m away)