Dominican Convention (Vienna)
The Viennese Dominican convent is a monastery of the Dominicans in the first Viennese district of Inner City . It is located next to the Dominican Church on the Dominican Bastion on Postgasse.
history
The Dominican Convention was founded in 1225/1226. The Babenberg Duke Leopold VI provided the building site for the monastery . the glorious available. After the construction was completed, the monastery was consecrated in 1237. In the same century, a church was built on the connection to the building and continuously expanded. In 1302 the new choir of the church was finally built by the Dominican Cardinal Nikolaus Boccasini, later Pope Benedict XI. , consecrated.
The monastery suffered badly from the first Turkish siege . The church had to be adapted as a quarry in order to strengthen the adjoining weak fortification walls. It was not until 1631 that the construction of a new monastery church began, which in the following years was splendidly decorated in the Baroque style. The convent was also given its present form in the 17th century. In the years 1996 to 1998, numerous medieval building fragments that had been discovered in the cloister were restored .
The tracts leading to the Wollzeile were torn down in 1937 and replaced by a new building, the Dominikanerhof by Kurt Klaudy , Anton Liebe and Georg Lippert , which forms a representative end of the Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Platz .
Dominican Convention on postage stamps
On October 3, 1986, the Austrian Post issued a definitive stamp showing the Dominican monastery in Vienna. This 7.5 Schilling stamp was part of the definitive series “Stifte and Monasteries in Austria”.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 32 " N , 16 ° 22 ′ 45" E