Weingarting noble estate

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The abandoned noble estate Weingarten stood in the place of today's Kapuzinerkloster in Linz (Kapuzinerstraße 38).

history

Although the field name “Im Weingarten” is no longer common in Linz today, the area between Klammstrasse and Kapuzinerstrasse was called that until the second half of the 19th century. This can be traced back to the viticulture, which has probably been practiced there since the 12th century (an indication of this is the wine toe paid to the St. Florian monastery and confirmed in 1111 ). Due to the foundations of the Linz bourgeois family of the Puezzer from 1335, it is certain that vines were grown on the "Pusserleytten" (also written as "Piessenlewten") on the so-called Judenberg. This is confirmed by a privilege issued by Emperor Friedrich III. around 1480, which guaranteed freedom from tithes, taxes and mining rights to everyone who grew wine. This is probably due to the fact that the emperor had to move his residence to Linz during the Hungarian invasions and the imperial court wanted to be supplied with wine there.

The first Linz citizen to make use of this privilege on the "Pusserleytten" was Balthasar Alkhover. In 1493 he was granted tax exemption due to the imperial privilege. He was succeeded by the state attorney Andre Pruckner, who had the privileges for the "Puchssenleyten" guaranteed in 1518. Pruckner, who also owned the rule of Schlüsselberg , probably belonged to the lower nobility . In 1530 the property came to Wolfgang Dimpacher, who had married the daughter of Beatrix des Pruckner. This also had the exemption from the tithe 1536 for his vineyard "Busserleithen" confirmed. The next owner was Ruprecht Puellacher in the middle of the 16th century . His widow Anna was awarded the seat of Weingarten “Pusserleiten all here in Linz” by the lawyer for the state governorate ob der Enns , Hans Georg Auer . In 1570 this property went to the imperial council, secretary and land clerk Weikhart Fürst and from there to Georg Pirchinger. This means that around 1570 the vineyard is safely in noble hands for the first time. Pirchinger was court clerk in Weißenberg in the service of Wolf von Volkensdorf and called himself "Georg Pyhringer zum Weingarthof". From this it can be deduced that there was already a residential building here earlier, presumably under Ruprecht Puellacher, which, due to the earlier exemptions, was regarded by its aristocratic owner as a patio without any special formality. Under Georg Pirchinger there was also a change in the field name from Pusserleyten via Weingarthof to Weingarting. Around 1580 the property came to the imperial councilor and rent master of the city of Steyr, Jobst Schmidtauer, who called himself "von Weingarting". After a short time, namely in 1581, the property was sold to Emperor Rudolf II . The emperor did not want to keep the court, but to sell it on at the highest possible price. In 1588 Wilhelm Seemann, imperial councilor and lawyer for the governorate of the river Enns, came into play from a number of interested buyers. Again in 1590 he sold the Weingarting outdoor area with wine and tree gardens, courtyard with gate and six associated courtyards to his brother-in-law Christoph Abraham von Retschan zu Feldegg , Riedau and Zell an der Pram . After his death in 1604, his entire property passed to the children Christian Melchior and Barbara, his sister Rosina, who was married to Ferdinand von Hohberg and Gutmannsdorf, and to his second sister, Marie Salome, who was married to Feyingerin. Archduke Matthias Weingarting ordered them to be sold in 1606 to Emperor Rudolf II, who wanted to build a Capuchin monastery here to re-Catholicize the Protestant population of Linz after the Protestant era.

The authorities over the land holdings of the outdoor seating, which had meanwhile grown to ten courtyards, remained with the sellers for the time being. It was not until 1644 that they were sold to Leopold Kemeter zu Tribein. Although the city of Linz was very interested in acquiring these farms, they were first purchased by Georg Siegmund von Salburg. In 1650 some of these courtyards actually passed to the city of Linz. The city acquired the last possessions in the vineyard in 1652 for the planned expansion of the city.

Weingarting today

Today the Capuchin monastery or the Church of St. Matthias is located on the site of the noble residence in the vineyard. The monastery was founded in 1606; the first Capuchin church was consecrated in 1612, but then demolished in favor of today's St. Matthias Church. This was consecrated in 1662, its church tower dates from 1786, the spire was made in 1908. In 1680 the Capuchins also received imperial approval to build a hospice during the plague times of that time. The monastery remained in existence until the province was dissolved in 1991.

A school and a home for hearing and visually impaired children were built on the monastery grounds in 1811 and have been run by Caritas since 2002 .

An unemployment initiative is supported by the parish of St. Matthias; the independent cultural center KAPU is also located here .

  • Capuchin monastery Linz

  • Entrance to the Capuchin Monastery (Linz)

  • St. Matthias Church

  • Entrance to the Capuchin Church of St. Matthias

  • Entrance to the parish office of St. Matthias

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St. Matthias - Capuchin Church ( Memento from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Center for Hearing and Vision Education Linz /
  3. ^ Institute for hearing and vision training
  4. ↑ Bischöfliche Arbeitslosenstiftung Linz ( Memento from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 48 ° 18 ′ 1.1 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 53.6 ″  E