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24-450: In keeping with Kolping's program of providing reasonable, clean and decent surroundings for young people away from home, many Kolping Societies offer affordable accommodations to students, interns and other visitors. Adolph Kolping was born in 1813 in Kerpen , the son of a poor shepherd. Although a good student, he could not afford to continue his education and in 1831 he became an apprentice to

48-521: A National Office and is relatively independent in its operation. Local groups are known as Kolping Families. Individual chapters follow Kolping's dictum: "The needs of the times will tell you what to do." Mainly they offer educational and leisure activities to meet the needs of workers and their families. The International Headquarters is located in Cologne across the street from the Minoritenkirche , where

72-698: A Small Animals Initiative/Dairy Goats Project, providing dairy goats to families. Since then most of the goats have given birth, increasing the number supplying goat milk and manure to grow vegetables. Kolping established a presence in India in 1962; the National Kolping Society of India was formed about twenty years later. With support from Kolping Augsburg it runs nine children's after-school programs in Bangalore and Udhagamandalam . It also provided emergency assistance to migrant workers and pavement dwellers during

96-570: A men's organization, Kolping evolved into a family association. The Kolping Society of South Africa (KSA) was established in Johannesburg by German immigrants in 1952. KSA supports four early-childhood development centres in South Africa, and runs an employment opportunity program providing vocational skills training for youth from marginalised and disadvantaged areas. Since 2017 Kolping America, in conjunction with Kolping Kenya, has participated in

120-495: A publication now in the public domain :  Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). " Gesellenvereine ". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company. Kerpen Kerpen ( German: [ˈkɛʁpm̩] ; Ripuarian : Kerpe ) is the most populated town in the Rhein-Erft-Kreis ( North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany ). It is located about 20 kilometres southwest from Cologne . As of 2023, Kerpen has

144-648: A shoemaker in Cologne . As a poor young workman, he became acquainted with the disadvantages suffered by men of his class on their journeys, in factories, and in city lodging-houses, and it influenced his decision to become a Catholic priest. Lacking the necessary education, he continued to work as a shoemaker. In 1834, at the age of twenty-three, he entered secondary school. In 1841 he gave up shoemaking to begin theological studies in Munich . After further studies in Bonn and Cologne, Kolping

168-870: A short-term men's residence on 88th Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. As of 2021 Kolping New York also operates: the Kolping-on-Concourse residence for mature men and women. It is located on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx. This branch is affiliated with Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York. In the United States, the Society's activities are directed more toward families rather than providing residences for single people. The Kolping Society of Detroit

192-569: A total population of 67,627. The town of Kerpen was created in 1975, when the previously independent municipalities Balkhausen, Blatzheim, Brüggen, Buir, Horrem, Kerpen, Manheim, Mödrath, Sindorf and Türnich were merged. In 2008, Gymnasium der Stadt Kerpen was considered the largest school in Germany. Kerpen is twinned with: This Rhein-Erft-Kreis location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Minoritenkirche (Cologne) The Minoritenkirche or Church of

216-746: The COVID-19 lockdown, to persons affected by Cyclone Nivar , and to the homeless facing a cold winter. With the re-establishment of Lithuanian independence in 1990, pre-war Catholic societies were revived. The Lithuanian Kolping Society was established in 1993 as a public non-profit, charitable organization involved in educational activity. It runs Kolping College in Kaunas , a private non-university higher education institution, granting Professional bachelor's degrees; and Kolping Educational Centre to assist individuals with professional qualification and re-qualification. [REDACTED]  This article incorporates text from

240-455: The Franciscans were expelled from the church and the adjoining monastery. The occupying forces seized the buildings in 1804 and four years later turned them into the headquarters for secular social work in the city. In 1846 the church was handed over to the city's cathedral chapter for use as an annexe church to Cologne Cathedral and four years later archbishop Johannes von Geissel made it

264-639: The German-speaking world. By the time of his death in 1865, there were over 400 local groups of the journeymen's organization established throughout Europe and America. Kolping was beatified by the Catholic Church in 1991. "While Kolping did not press for structural reform, he nevertheless sensitized the Roman Catholic Church to the problems of the working class and to the need for a commensurate social program." These societies aimed, in general, at

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288-660: The Immaculate Conception (German - St. Mariä Empfängnis ) is a Catholic church on the Kolpingplatz in Cologne . Built in the 13th century, it is now used by the Franciscan and the Kolpingwerk social association. It is notable for containing the tombs of Duns Scotus and Adolph Kolping , both of whom were beatified by Pope John Paul II - Kolping was also ordained priest in the church. Kolping and Scotus both feature on

312-600: The United States operates thirteen facilities; the national headquarters is located in the Yorkville section of Manhattan , once a distinctly German neighborhood and still the site of the annual Steuben Day Parade . The first meeting of Kolping New York was held at the Church of St. Mary Magdalen, East 17th Street on October 14, 1888. "Its purpose was to provide a Kolping Society for young journeyman who arrived from Europe without friends or family." It subsequently acquired Kolping House,

336-567: The acknowledged object of fostering the religious life of the members, and at the same time improving their mechanical skills. In 1847 Kolping became the president. In 1849 Kolping was appointed vicar of the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter in Cologne. From his experience in Elberfeld, Kolping believed it advisable to establish a widespread organization of similar societies to produce a respectable body of master-workmen. "Initially, his objective

360-587: The diocesan church for confirmations and ordinations. He also instigated a restoration which was completed in 1862, partly thanks to a 40,000 Taler donation from the businessman Johann Heinrich Richartz (1795–1861), who had already set up the Wallraf-Richartz-Museum on the former site of the monastery buildings. A new Romanus Seifert & Sohn organ was installed in 1997, with 44 registers, divided into three manuals and pedals, with mechanical trackers and electrical registers. The expression pedal

384-533: The existing associations as the "Rheinischer Gesellenbund" – this fusion was the origin of the present international "Kolpingwerk". He promoted the associations through the "Rheinische Volksblätter" (or the "Rhine Region People’s Paper"), a newspaper he founded in 1854, and which quickly became one of the most successful press organs of his time. In a short time societies of young Catholic journeymen were formed in many Rhenish towns, in Westphalia , and finally throughout

408-696: The founder is buried. Kolping International is represented at the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) in New York and at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. The General Secretariat in Cologne coordinates, supports and monitors development projects in more than forty countries. Their work focuses on vocational education and training, microfinance programs, and access to clean drinking water. The Kolping Society in

432-724: The larger cities, there were free classes in several crafts, e.g., for bakers, tailors, carpenters, workers in metal, painters, shoemakers. This instruction was designed especially for those workmen whose goal was to establish a business of their own. Frequently, in the large cities, these classes were attached to local technical and industrial schools, municipal or governmental. In keeping with Father Kolping's program of providing reasonable, clean and decent surroundings for young people away from home, many Kolping Societies acquired buildings to provide safe, affordable housing for young workmen relocating for employment. The Catholic Kolping Society has branches in over thirty countries. Each country has

456-473: The moral, mental, and professional improvement of young German Catholic journeymen, apprentices, etc. (Gesellen) by cultivating in them strong religious principles and civic virtue. This resulted in a large body of self-respecting and respected master-workmen, distributed over all parts of Germany and throughout the lands bordering the German Empire. Lectures were given on Sunday evenings by clergymen and laymen;

480-551: The new west doors designed by Paul Nagel in 2006. Typically for Franciscan monastery churches, it was built in the Gothic style. It took from 1245 to about 1260 to build its early-Gothic choir, with a three-aisle nave added in the 14th century. As the Franciscans are a mendicant order , they built a ridge turret but no bell tower, indications of the poverty adopted by the order. When the French Revolution spread to Cologne in 1794,

504-489: The subjects ranging from religious topics to the purely instructive or entertaining. Non-religious festivities, such as excursions, theatricals, evening entertainments, and the like were also included. In 1890 attention began to be directed to the instruction of members in technical, industrial, and mercantile subjects. Besides providing for Christian doctrine, the societies conducted classes in book-keeping, arithmetic, drawing, literary composition, music, natural sciences, etc. In

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528-1145: Was founded in 1926. In 1929. the society acquired a parcel of abandoned farmland and created Kolping Park which included a neo-Gothic chapel constructed from stones and shells sent from Kolping societies around the world. The chapel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The chapel was subsequently donated to the Chesterfield Township Historical Society and relocated to the Chesterfield Historical Village. The Kolping Society of Canada has branches in Edmonton, Hamilton, Kelowna, Toronto, Vancouver and Winnipeg. Many of these organizations were founded in German parishes to assist young European immigrants find work and housing. It sought to maintain group cohesion through social activities. The Kolping Society of Ontario aided Catholic German tradesmen such as stonemasons and welders. Initially

552-471: Was ordained on 13 April 1845 at the Minoritenkirche in Cologne. Kolping's first assignment was as a chaplain and religious education teacher in the textile-manufacturing city of Elberfeld . There a number of journeymen carpenters had founded a choral society with the aid of a teacher and the local clergy. It grew rapidly into the Gesellenvereine (Journeymen's Association), a young workmen's society with

576-479: Was to provide a home-away-from-home for young apprentices and journeymen while they learned a trade that would enable them to make a decent and honest living." He established Cologne's branch of the Gesellenverein, which soon acquired its own home, and opened a hospice for young travelling journeymen. In his efforts to develop the work, Kolping was energetic and eloquent both as a speaker and writer. In 1850 he united

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