Former Ursuline Church (Innsbruck)
The former Ursuline Church is a secular church building in Innsbruck , which today houses two event halls.
history
The Order of Sisters of the Ursulines was appointed to Innsbruck in 1691 at the instigation of Count Hieronymus Bernhard Ferrari d'Occhieppo and has been the first and for a long time the only institution dedicated to teaching girls here. 1700–1705, the sisters on the Innrain were able to have their first new monastery and school built by Johann Martin Gumpp the Elder in place of the old Hechtenburg .
A lightning strike damaged the tower and parts of the facade in 1830. In the 1870s, the monastery wing was expanded and stocked. From 1883 to 1886 the interior and the facade were redesigned by Albrecht Steiner von Felsburg . During the Second World War the church was damaged by bombs, and from 1947 it was rebuilt.
In 1971 the Ursulines had a new building built in the Höttinger Au in the west of the city , and the church has not been used since then. In 1978 it was profaned and bought by the Raiffeisen-Landesbank Tirol . The baroque furnishings were given to other churches. The church interior was redesigned according to plans by the architect Roman Schweighofer. The Raiffeisen Halls , today the Ursuline Halls , two event halls with stages in the former apse area were created by inserting a false ceiling .
The buildings west of the church were demolished and replaced by a new building. The monastery building along the Marktgraben was renovated and has since housed the city music school . The former monastery courtyard has been converted into a shopping mall.
description
The baroque church, which was dedicated to the Visitation of the Virgin Mary , faces the Innrain with its façade. The three-storey facade is set back from the street and structured by colossal pilasters as well as portal and window frames. The bell tower is integrated into the gable architecture as a facade tower. The two-storey former monastery wing connects to the side.
The church was originally a four- bay hall with a flat barrel vault , a recessed , square choir and a two-storey entrance gallery . The vestibule below was separated from the church by two free-standing columns made of red marble and wrought-iron bars from 1711. During the profanation in 1983, the interior was completely redesigned and the furnishings were removed except for a few pieces of stucco. A false ceiling was installed at the level of the gallery, and the capitals of the pilasters were put back below the new floor ceiling. The halls are accessed through the former school building, which houses various ancillary rooms. To this end, the three arched niches between the pilasters were converted into doors. The former main entrance to the church is now used as an emergency exit.
literature
- Jessica Wehdorn: Church buildings used profanely: The building stock in Austria . Studienverlag, Innsbruck 2006, ISBN 978-3-7065-4378-1 , p. 141-142 .
- Karl Wiesauer: Mariae Visitation Monastery Church, former Ursuline Church. In: Tyrolean art register . Retrieved August 16, 2014 .
- New life in the Ursuline building. In: Innsbruck city news. No. 6/1981, p. 7. ( digitized version )
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 1.1 ″ N , 11 ° 23 ′ 27.8 ″ E