Dominican monastery in Friesach

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Dominican monastery in Friesach

The Dominican monastery in Friesach stands outside the current city ​​walls in the north of Friesach .

history

In 1216, Hyazinth von Polen founded the first branch of the Dominican Order in the German-speaking area in Friesach . The monastery was located in the so-called sack next to the Holy Blood Church in the south of the city. By order of Archbishop Philipp von Spanheim , a new building was built in 1255 at the current location outside the old city walls. In 1264, Bishop Dietrich II von Gurk consecrated an All Saints Chapel. The monastery was badly damaged by fire in 1637. Because of the solid economic base and the school and pastoral activities, the monastery escaped being dissolved in the course of the Josephine reforms , but it was already closed in 1797, during the time of the Napoleonic occupation of Carinthia. The building now served as an arsenal and military hospital. In the middle of the 19th century the facility was in a ruinous state. In 1889 the Dominicans returned to Friesach and in 1892 they re-established a formal branch of the order.

At the end of 2015 the sale of the monastery and church was announced. The monastery was bought by a costume manufacturer that had its workshops in the monastery before. The buyer of the church has not yet been announced.

Building description

Most of the monastery was built in 1673. It is a two-story complex around a square courtyard. The portal on the south side with a coat of arms is dated 1691. In the east wing of the cloister is the early Gothic chapter hall entrance with a profiled pointed arch portal and two side, three-part window groups from the second half of the 13th century. The baroque refectory is in the north wing. In the northwest corner of the cloister there is a mural depicting the crucifixion in an aedicular frame with winding columns, created around 1670.

Furnishing

Above the altar of the house chapel there is a baroque crucifixion group with the assistant figures Saints Dominic and Catherine of Siena . The chapel also features a figure of Petrus Martyr carved around 1370 and a statuette of John the Baptist . In the exam one is Pietà preserved wooden from the late 14th century. In the priory there is a carved figure of St. Paul from the second quarter of the 15th century and a revised, carved Vespers picture from the 16th century.

Funerary monuments

The following grave monuments are located in the cloister:

  • Uolbrecht von Liebenberg (Limberg), second half of the 13th century.
  • Pilgrim Cellarius († 1276)
  • Uolrich von Grades, son of the Pilgrim († 1327) and Pilgrim, second son of the Pilgrim († 1330)
  • Friedrich von Eberstein († 1324)
  • Gottfried von Trixen († 1284)
  • Heinrich Silberberg von Silbereck († 1416)
  • Gambrecht (?) Von Silberberg († 1461)
  • a coat of arms grave slab from 1488
  • Ulrich Weig (around 1500)
  • Christof von Silberberg († 1505)
  • Marx von Staudach († 1544)
  • Amelia Peuscher zu Leonstein († 1559)

literature

  • Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , 168–171.
  • Siegfried Hartwagner: Austrian Art Monograph Volume VIII: Carinthia. The St. Veit an der Glan district . Verlag St. Peter, Salzburg 1977, ISBN 3-900173-22-2 , p. 59 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dominican Monastery Friesach is being sold on ORF-Kärnten from November 25, 2015, accessed on November 25, 2015

Coordinates: 46 ° 57 ′ 13.4 "  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 17.1"  E