Dominican convent Windhaag
| Dominican convent Windhaag | |
|---|---|
| location |
 Austria
|
| Lies in the diocese | Passau |
| Coordinates: | 48 ° 17 '0 " N , 14 ° 40' 49" E |
| founding year | 1668 |
| Year of dissolution / annulment |
1782 |
The former Dominican convent wind Hague was one of Joachim Enzmilner 1664, first in the old castle Windhaag furnished Dominican - monastery in Windhaag , with his only daughter, Eva Magdalena , from 1668 as the first Prioress . The monastery was closed by Joseph II in 1782 . The former monastery church is today's Windhaag parish church .
founding
Eva Magdalena left her parents' house on June 24, 1648 and entered the Dominican convent in Tulln . On December 25, 1664 she returned to Windhaag. She was accompanied by her confessor, Vinzenz Hauser, the first prior of the Dominican monastery Münzbach , by Hyzint Marian, the librarian and author of the Topographia Windhagiana , as well as by two choirs and one lay sister.
Her father set up the old Windhaag Castle for her as an apartment and monastery and initiated the formalities for founding a monastery. The responsible Bishop of Passau, Wenzeslaus von Thun , appointed Eva Magdalena as the first prioress in 1668 and on May 9, 1673 the Windhag Virgin Monastery, which was intended for twelve nuns, was confirmed by the Diocese of Passau . The annual sustentation made by Joachim Enzmilner amounted to 1200 guilders.
New building
After the death of her father on May 21, 1678, Eva Magdalena inherited a large part of his property including the Windhaag reign. Soon afterwards, they had the new Windhaag Castle, which was only completed in 1673, demolished in its entirety and the nearby Pragtal Castle , and from 1681, with the building materials on the area of today's center of Windhaag, a new monastery, completed around 1689, including one completed in 1691 and 1693 erect the consecrated monastery church. The church has been Windhaag's parish church since the Altenburg parish was relocated in 1782 .
In 1689 the prioress moved from the old castle into the new monastery with 14 choir sisters and five lay sisters. After the construction of the monastery, the old castle only served as an apartment for the confessor of the nuns, the court judge and court clerk. The castle ruins have been used for tourism purposes since the beginning of the 21st century.
capital
Evidently Eva Magdalena bequeathed her inheritance to the monastery, because at that time the monastery owned the old castle chapel, the new monastery church, the Portiunkulakirchl, the new monastery, the old castle, the Meierhof, the brewery, the Pfisterei, some blacksmiths, wooden huts, gatekeeping rooms, Hoftaverne Windhaag, fish water and ponds, meadows, fields, forests, quarries, brick kilns, castle and Maierhof Pragtal, called Krottentalhof, Markt Münzbach, Hoftaverne Münzbach, Monastery Münzbach, church Münzbach, parish Altenburg, parish Rechberg, Hoftaverne Rechberg, parish Pergkirchen and the Windhagerische Bibliothek , which, however, was moved to the Dominican Convention in Vienna and made accessible to the public.
Repeal
When Eva Magdalena died in 1700, there was hardly anything left of her father's wealth. The majority had been built in, sold and given away. A few months after Eva Magdalena's death, lightning struck the monastery and the subsequent fire destroyed large parts of it. From 1765 the monastery was under administration due to high debts. In 1782 the monastery was closed and given to the Linz cathedral chapter .
Reuse
The former priests' wing of the monastery, also known as the castle, was bought by the Windhaag community in 2008 and is to be used in future for the community administration and the establishment of an event hall. The three Scharrer brothers were the immediate previous owners.
literature
- Georg Grüll : History of the castle and the rule Windhag near Perg (Upper Austria). In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Year 87, Linz 1937, ISSN 0379-0819 , pp. 185–311, chapter “Windhag and Joachim Enzmilner”, pp. 216–278, Dominikanerinnenkloster pp. 251–278, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
Web links
- Former Dominican convent Windhaag near Perg. On dioezese-linz.at.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grüll 1937, p. 251.