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Student days in Munich
| | | | | After the war, Munich University's theological faculty and the Ducal Georgianum (Herzogliches Georgianum) were located in Fürstenried since the buildings in the city had been heavily damaged by war. |
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In his autobiography, Joseph Ratzinger writes:
"After the end of the monarchy, the archdiocese had bought the little castle and set up a special place for prayer and contemplation. In the difficult days of privation in the twenties, two modest extensions had been added in which a seminar was established for those called late to the faith. These two buildings now housed both the theological faculty and the Georgianum.
It was extremely crowded. In one and the same house were located the secretariat of the faculty and its conference room, the seminar libraries for pastoral theology, church history and exegesis of the Old and New Testament, and our study and dormitory rooms.
| | | | To cope with the lack of space, bunk beds were used. When I opened my eyes the first morning, still half asleep, I thought for a moment that we were at war again and I was back in the anti-aircraft corps. Meals were frugal, too, because we could not fall back on a farm of our own as we did in Freising.“
Lectures were held in the greenhouse in the castle garden where it was very hot in summer but extremely cold in winter. Today Fürstenried Castle contains the center for prayer and contemplation and the center |
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for young people. In the fall of 1949 students and professors moved back to the city center since some of the buildings had been rebuilt. Looking back, as a student, he writes: "In Fürstenried, all of us, teachers and pupils, seminarians and students from the city lived together like one big family. I remember the years I spent in Fürstenried as a time of being on the brink of a new era. It was a period full of hope and confidence and a time of major decisions. “
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