Communität Casteller Ring (CCR) is a
Religious order
A religious order is a lineage of communities and organizations of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of its founder's religious pract ...
for women in the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
CCR emerged shortly after
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
from the
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total l ...
n
Girl Guide Movement
Bund Christlicher Pfadfinderinnen. The Religious community lives in the spirit of the
Rule of St Benedict
The ''Rule of Saint Benedict'' ( la, Regula Sancti Benedicti) is a book of precepts written in Latin in 516 by St Benedict of Nursia ( AD 480–550) for monks living communally under the authority of an abbot.
The spirit of Saint Benedict's R ...
. The mother house is in
Schwanberg. From 1996 until Easter 2011, sisters of the Casteller Ring staffed
St. Augustine's Monastery in
Erfurt
Erfurt () is the capital and largest city in the Central German state of Thuringia. It is located in the wide valley of the Gera river (progression: ), in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest. It sits ...
, where
Martin Luther
Martin Luther (; ; 10 November 1483 – 18 February 1546) was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, and professor, and Augustinian friar. He is the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation and the namesake of Luther ...
lived as a monk.
[Jungbauer, Walter (2010]
Schwestern vom Casteller Ring verlassen Erfurt
Retrieved 27 May 2017.
CCR also has
oblates and circle of friends.
References
External links
Geistliches Zentrum Schwanberg
Communität Casteller Ring im Augustinerkloster zu Erfurt
St Augustine's Evangelical Monastery in Erfurt
Lutheran orders and societies
Orders following the Rule of Saint Benedict
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