Dechanthof Freistadt
The Dechanthof Freistadt is a mighty, three-storey four-wing building and serves as the rectory of the Roman Catholic parish Freistadt and the seat of the Deanery Freistadt in the Upper Austrian Mühlviertel . In 1354 the rectory was mentioned for the first time and serves as accommodation for the priests and the dean and as the administrative seat of the parish with its three churches. The Dechanthof bears house number Dechanthofplatz 1. The building and part of the fortifications are under monument protection .
history
The rectory has existed at this point in the city for more than 1354. The previous building of the current building is no longer preserved. The first big fire in the city started in 1507 at the Dechanthof, which cremated the entire city. A partial renovation took place around 1600; the south-western, late Gothic part dates from this period. At the end of the 17th century, it was redesigned by Carlo Antonio Carlone . Around 1735 the building was rebuilt by Johann Michael Prunner and the facade redesigned, which can still be seen today.
- Foundation houses
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Eight of the parish's nine foundation houses were located around the Dechanthof, some of which were later demolished because they were in disrepair. As a result, there is now a gap in the row of houses on Dechanthofplatz. These ecclesiastical foundation houses were founded in the 14th and 15th centuries and fell into disrepair in the 17th century as income declined. Some of the houses were converted into gardens and some were reused when the Dechanthof was enlarged.
architecture
The Dechanthof is a mighty, three-storey four-wing building around an irregular rectangular courtyard. The baroque main facade on Dechanthofplatz has tall, slender fields with a late Baroque pilaster structure above the grooved base . The main portal, a round arched rustic portal, is arranged asymmetrically. In the arched field above the window, which is above the main entrance, there is a picture of the Good Shepherd . To the side of the main portal is a 19th century walk-through door that serves as an additional entrance. The secondary facades date from the end of the 17th century and are decorated with local stone blocks and field decorations.
The courtyard facade is late baroque, like the main facade. The former Renaissance arcade on the first floor in the east wing was walled up in the course of the baroque redesign.
The interior of the building is at the entrance to the north (from Dechanthofplatz) is equipped with a groin vault and leads to a staircase. One room in the north-west is a two-pillar room with groined vaults from around 1600. The rooms in the east wing are equipped with lancet barrel vaults and a courtyard-side corridor with groined vaults serves as access to these rooms. On the stairwell in the south wing there are late Gothic crossed shoulder arch portals from the first quarter of the 16th century, the stairwell is late Gothic. The rooms in the west wing are equipped with lancet barrel vaults. Many rooms have stucco mirrors from the 18th and 19th centuries. The hall on the upper floor (east wing) is equipped with a baroque stucco decoration by Carlo Antonio Carlone from around 1687/90. One picture shows the adoration of the Magi. The vestibule is baroque, the late baroque roof structure is lying and carved in parts.
use
The Dechanthof still serves the parish as the official seat. Today there are:
- Church contribution office
- Marriage and family counseling
- Scouts group rooms
- Public library
- Function rooms
- Jungscharraum
Parish of Freistadt
The parish of Freistadt is responsible for three churches, a cemetery and four kindergartens in and around Freistadt.
- Churches
- graveyard
- Kindergartens
All four are in Freistadt; in Bahnhofstraße, in Dechanthof, in Ginzkeystraße and the Sonnenhaus, which is also the furthest north.
List of pastors in Freistadt
This list shows the Roman Catholic pastors / dean of the parish of Freistadt, who directed the affairs of the parish from the dean's court. The list begins in 1267 with the first documentary mention of a pastor. When the parish church was consecrated in 1288, Freistadt was attested as a parish with an independent pastor. The parish has been independent since the 13th century, although it was not completely cut off from the mother parish in Neumarkt im Mühlkreis in the 15th century.
The list is structured as follows:
- Year of nomination or assumption of office
- Pastor's name
- Other functions of the pastor
It does not claim to be complete when naming names until 1626, since 1626 all pastors have been recorded in full.
- 13th and 14th centuries
- 1267: Otto plebanus
- 1288: Thomas Rechberger, Canon of Passau and pastor of Freistadt
- 1300: Cunradus, pastor of the mother church at that time in Neumarkt im Mühlkreis
- 1368: Chunrad von Scherdingen
- 1381: Reymarus
- 1385: Tomen von Advance, pastor in Neumarkt and Freistadt, canon of Passau
- 15th and 16th centuries
- 1412: Friedrich the Schenk von Limburg, dean and pastor
- 1435: Konrad der Scharff
- 1441: Jörg Kelhaimer
- 1453: Caspar Horperger, liceat of spiritual rights and pastor
- 1461: Georg von Söl
- 1471: Stephan Aichler (also: Aichpichler)
- 1488: Hänndl Augustin, also pastor in Lasberg
- 1491: Bernhard Meurl , from 1496 titular bishop of Lebanon and auxiliary bishop in Passau
- 1494: Rupert de Chuen
- 1498: Leonhard Loder, Dean
- 1499: Bernhard Meurl
- 1507: Leonhard Loder
- 1509: Caspar Wimpeckh, dean
- 1516: Count Hermann zu Orlemund
- 1522: Christoph Gugler, Dean
- 1526: Stephan, dean
- 1535: Erasmus von Hohenfeld, Canon of Passau
- 1539: Martin Angerer, dean
- 1544: Wolfgang Steinbruckher, Dean
- 1550: Johann Frank, dean in Rainbach
- 1552: Johann Grabner
- 1555: Wendelin Prandtburger, dean
- 1556: Matthäus Hofmändl, Dean
- 1558: Johann Kirchpuecher, dean
- 1567: Johann Schlundt
- 1570: Ulrich Herrnpuecher
- 1571: Georgius Reyser, Dean
- 1573: Matthäus Rueff
- 1576: Jakob Strigl
- 1577: Achaz Freiunger
- 1580: Andreas Sturmb
- 1589: Johann Puecher, Dean
- 1599: Erasmus Eberwein
- 1599: Georg Puecher, Dean
- 17th and 18th centuries
- 1603: Wenzl Jakob Rueland, Dean
- 1608: Melchior Zueland, Dean
- 1617: Hartmann Oberegger
- 1618: Jakob Nigrinus de Sonnabendt, Dean
- 1620: Laurentius Jennich
- 1629: Michael Kastner, dean
- 1632: Friedrich Kastner, dean
- 1633: Ferdinand Mannecor de Casserz
- 1635: Erhard Reutter
- 1636: Johann Ecker de Köpfing
- 1646: Matthias Forster
- 1646: Phillip Oswald Paur, pastor of Lasberg, fled the city in 1652
- 1652: Sigebert von Gaillenkirchen, dean
- 1654: Caspar Ruess, dean
- 1685: Johann Jakob Olber, Dean
- 1690: David Josef von STein, dean
- 1723: Martin Hayperger von Pankirchen, Dean
- 1730: Joachim Anton Schragl, Dean
- 1762: Josef Matthias Redlhammer, Dean
- 19th and 20th centuries
- 1800: Hueber Josef, dean
- 1819: Maximilian Mayrhofer, dean
- 1835: Josef Leuthäuser, dean and builder of the Way of the Cross to St. Peter
- 1848: Johann Nepomuk Bauer, dean
- 1854: Georg Gumpenberger, dean of honor in Linz and dean
- 1874: Jakob Schmiedinger, Dean
- 1885: Ignaz Bauer, Dean
- 1895: Ferdinand von Schönburg, dean
- 1919: Leo Erba, dean
- 1942: Johann Kittinger
- 1975: Rudolf Kapplmüller
- 1983: Anton Sageder, Dean
- 1986 to August 31, 2016: Franz Mayrhofer
- Subsequent parish assistant with parish moderation, no longer own pastor
literature
- Federal Monuments Office Austria (Ed.): Dehio - Upper Austria Mühlviertel . Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2003, ISBN 978-3-85028-362-5 , page 143f
- Scharitzer: Freistadt house chronicle, provided by the castle museum
- Stadtgemeinde Freistadt (Ed.): Freistadt history sheets - 700 years of the parish church of Freistadt . Volume 1 and 2, 1950-, Plöchl-Druck
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 30 ′ 37 ″ N , 14 ° 30 ′ 13 ″ E