Bourgeois orphanage (Passau)
The bourgeois orphanage , also known as Lukas Kern orphanage or Lukas Kern children's home , is an orphanage in Passau .
The shipmaster and innkeeper Lukas Kern donated 72,400 guilders in his will for an orphanage in Passau in 1749. In his will he decreed that at all times at least twelve boys and as many girls should live in the house.
Between 1750 and 1762 it was built as a four-wing complex according to the plans of the master builder Johann Michael Schneitmann at the confluence of the Danube and Inn rivers. The entrance to the orphanage chapel has its own facade, without interrupting the front line. On it is a fresco painting framed with stucco . The pictures next to the gate show the founder Lukas Kern and his wife Anna Theresia. The interior of the chapel is also decorated with rich stucco work. The altar dates from the time it was built.
In 1758 the first children moved into the building. Maria Ward sisters still run the orphanage today.
The square in front of the orphanage is adorned with a statue of St. Nepomuk by Joseph Carl Hofer from 1759 ( restored in 1957 by Otto Zirnbauer , who also made a copy in Danube limestone for the Jochenstein Danube dam ). Until 1968 the statue of Christian Jorhan the Elder was used. Ä. attributed.
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- ↑ For the reassignment see Gottfried Schäffer : Joseph Carl Hofer - a forgotten Passauer sculptor , in: Ostbairische Grenzmarken , 1968
Coordinates: 48 ° 34'24.9 " N , 13 ° 28'25.9" E.