Dominican Church Krems

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Former Dominican church

The Dominican Church Krems is a former Dominican monastery church with the patronage of Peter and Paul in the city of Krems an der Donau in Lower Austria . Since 2011/2012, the church has served as the state gallery for contemporary art for temporary exhibitions in the summer. The former church and the former monastery are under monument protection .

history

In 1236, the Dominicans received a piece of land to build a monastery outside the city walls. The construction of the church began around 1240 and was mentioned in a document in 1244. The nave was completed around 1260/1265 and the choir around 1320/1330. The nave was probably damaged in a fire in 1410. During the Reformation , the abandoned monastery was used by the city as a warehouse, and in 1566 the powder kegs stored there exploded. In 1586 the Dominicans settled the monastery again, as a result of which the church interior was changed and a crypt was built under the choir. In the 18th century the church was baroque.

In the course of the Josephine reforms  in 1783 the abolition of the Dominican monastery was ordered, and in 1786 the church was secularized. In 1790 the nave and choir were structurally separated. The choir was used as a city theater from 1794 after a false ceiling was installed. From 1921 the choir was used as a city cinema. The nave was owned by the city from 1808, received a false ceiling and was initially used as a granary, in the 1880s as a fire department depot and from 1891 as a city museum. In 1961 the restoration of the Gothic building began. From 1969 to 1971 the church building was restored, which was reopened with the exhibition “1000 Years of Art in Krems” and has served museum purposes and cultural events ever since. From 1994 to 1996 the premises for the new Weinstadt Museum were adapted and the use of the museum was extended to the entire monastery complex.

description

Nave with a view of the choir

architecture

The three-aisled, five-bay nave is connected to the four-bay choir with a 5/8 end in the east  . The largely unadorned facades show elements from the late Romanesque to the Gothic . A graceful roof turret rises above the saddle roof of the choir . The central nave is opened to the lower side aisles through pointed arches. The suspended ceilings and partition walls that were drawn in after the profanation were removed during the restoration in the 1960s.

According to studies in Canada, used roofing tiles from the middle of the 14th century may have been used as roofing , as they are older than the roof structure. It is said to be the oldest known roof tiles in Austria.

Former equipment

literature

  • The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria north of the Danube 1990 . Krems and Stein an der Donau, Krems, churches and monasteries, Former Dominican Church St. Peter and Paul, pp. 562-563.
  • Jessica Wehdorn: Church buildings used profanely: The building stock in Austria . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-4378-1 , p. 149-152 .

Web links

Commons : Dominikanerkirche Krems  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Austria's oldest roof tiles discovered in Krems on ORF from July 16, 2016, accessed on July 16, 2016

Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 40.4 "  N , 15 ° 35 ′ 50.5"  E