Michelstetten Monastery
The monastery Michelstetten was a convent of Dominican nuns in Adergas near the village Michelstetten (Slovenian Velesovo ) in Kranj in Carniola .
The monastery was a subsidiary of the Maria Magdalena monastery in Vienna and was founded in 1238 on the initiative of Patriarch Bertold II from Aquileia von Gerloch von Stein.
In 1248 Heinrich von Schenkenberg gave the Dominican convent a bailiff to compensate for damages and on February 12, 1264 the Dominican convent Studenitz, where his daughter Agnes was located, 5 Huben at St. Georg and 7 at Monperis in the village of Weitersgesinz (in 1282 Rudolf von Habsburg I enfeoffed his son Albrecht I von Habsburg with the Margraviate of Carniola).
In 1471 the monastery was sacked and sacked by the Turks. After the Capuchins took over pastoral care in 1644 , Adergas became a place of pilgrimage. Around 1770 the present monastery building and the church were built according to plans by the architect Candido Zulliani (1712–1769). In the course of the Josephine church reform , the monastery was abolished in 1782.
In the church there are seven pictures by the Krems painter Schmidt .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Maria-Magdalena-Kloster in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna ; accessed on July 15, 2017
- ↑ a b c Diocese of Gurk-Klagenfurt: Former monasteries and monasteries ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved July 22, 2017
- ↑ August von Jaksch: Monumenta Historica Ducatus Carinthiae , fourth volume, first part, Klagenfurt 1906
- ↑ International Center for Archival Research: Holdings: Velesovo (German: Michelstetten), Dominikanerinnen (1238-1568) ; accessed on July 15, 2017
Coordinates: 46 ° 16 ′ 16 ″ N , 14 ° 27 ′ 53 ″ E