Former Dominican convent (Friesach)
The former Dominican convent of St. Josef is on Neumarkter Straße outside the city walls in the north of Friesach .
history
In 1121 the Archbishop of Salzburg , Konrad I , founded a St. Maria Magdalena hospital at this location. The hospital building was expanded between 1124 and 1130 and donated to the Admont Benedictine monastery in 1139 . In 1187 the hospital came to the chapter of St. Bartlmä . From 1213 there was a branch of the Teutonic Knight Order here . Beguines lived in the building complex between 1240 and 1323 . The Augustinian nuns settled here in 1323, and their monastery was closed again in 1464. In 1464 the complex was redesigned to become the provost house of St. Mauritius and Magdalena. In 1672, after a fire, a new building was built with the help of the Carinthian estates. In 1780 the diocese Lavant acquired the complex. After a fire destroyed the Magdalenenkirche in 1804, the building was left to decay. In 1887 the Dominicans bought the complex and in 1890 rebuilt the monastery, which now belonged to the Austrian Union of Dominicans . Today the building serves as the St. Hemma House of Caritas for social purposes.
Building description
The monastery is a late 17th century building with a horseshoe-shaped floor plan. The south-east facing, three-storey main facade with 19 window axes has a simple baroque wall structure with local stone decoration. The marble relief with the representation of the monastery and a double coat of arms is marked 1672. The niche figure of St. Joseph was created around 1800. The two-storey north-east facade with a giant pilaster arrangement and arched windows from the end of the 18th century has a three-axis central projection with a gable crown. In the niche there is a stone figure of Our Lady with Child from around 1800 . A Gothic tombstone from around 1300 is walled in to the left of the portal . The four-axis side parts have a wall structure from the 17th century.
chapel
The chapel is a late baroque complex from the end of the 18th century. In the roughly square nave, galleries were drawn in on three sides on three sides above a pinned arcade . Above the gallery there is a groin vault on truncated columns. The gallery is flat on the underside. A vaulted umbrella rises above the choir with a five-eighth end and high arched windows .
The sculptures above the main altar, a crucifix , a rosary queen and St. Joseph were created by Johann Lang from Oberammergau in the 20th century .
literature
- Dehio manual. The art monuments of Austria. Carinthia . Anton Schroll, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-7031-0712-X , 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. 61 f.
Coordinates: 46 ° 57 '12.2 " N , 14 ° 24' 7.8" E