KENT SCHOOL ST. JOSEFSHEIMTHE ABANDONED MONASTERY AND SCHOOL IN GERMANY‘St. Josefsheim’ was a monastery where mentally and physically disabled people were living. Architects were the brothers Friedhofen, Koblenz. The still existing system with church, administrative wing, school and two other blocks was completed in 1913, the chapel of St. Josefsheim already inaugurated a year earlier.On these grounds in Hostert, the first monastery was originally established by monks in the 14th Century. But the history of ‘St. Josefsheim’ starts in 1909 when the ‘Order of the Franciscans of the Holy Cross’ came to Nordrhein-Westfalen. In only two years they build this complex. Block I, named the ‘Guardian Angel House’ was a school with bedrooms. In Block II, the ‘Franziskushaus’, lived the mentally handicapped kids. The third block was named ‘Antoniushaus’. He...nd 1945. At the height of its time as a school it had around 6.000 pupils attending. 270 kids stayed overnight at the boarding school. The other pupils were transported to the school by bus; everyday 50 busses drove to the Kent School. Even a special bus station was added to the site.1992In 1992 the school closed and the buildings were for sale again. They even came on E-bay, an online marketplace. The last few years there have been some emergency restorations in the buildings to keep them from falling apart. In 2000 the site was purchased by an investor from Dusseldorf. But there are still no plans for this beautiful site. I visited ‘Kent School’ or ‘St. Jozefsheim’ in 2007, 2009 and 2016.Built 1909Abandoned 1992Endangered Previous PostSanatorio Popolare Cantonale di PiottaEducation, Germany, ReligiousNext PostCimetière de locomotives à RouxEducation, Germany, ReligiousAll content © 2004-2019 by UrbEx.nl and AndreJoosse.nl