Former Ursuline monastery Graz
The former Ursuline monastery was located in the "second sack", in today's Grazer Sackstrasse in the first district of the inner city . The convent of the Ursulines ran an all-girls school, which is why the branch was spared from being dissolved during the Josephine reforms . After the building complex was sold to the school sisters in Graz , the convent was rebuilt in Leonhardstrasse in the second district of St. Leonhard .
history
At the request of the population of Graz, the Ursuline Order of Women came to Graz in 1686, which is particularly dedicated to the upbringing of young girls. The branch was approved by Emperor Leopold I on March 30th of this year , before the first four sisters arrived on June 14th and were received by noble ladies. The first home of the Order of Graz was on the former Fischplatz (today Andreas-Hofer-Platz ). After the construction of a chapel and the arrival of reinforcements from Gorizia , school operations began on July 24, 1686.
In addition to school, a boarding school was set up in which the girls could live. Because of the great popularity of the population, the relatively small house on Fischplatz soon had to be cleared and new quarters found. The order moved into the so-called "Werthlische Haus" opposite the Mariahilferkirche . The rush to the educational facility for girls continued, so that the order had to request personnel reinforcement again.
On January 13, 1687, the Archbishop of Salzburg gave the approval for a new construction of the monastery, which could be tackled after the purchase and demolition of five town houses in the "second sack" (between 1687 and 1694). After the construction of a “chapel for the dead” (1694/95), the foundation stone was laid in 1696. The plans for the construction of the Ursuline Monastery, which lasted from 1700 to 1722, came from Anton Leithner. The consecration of the Ursuline Church (today Trinity Church), built between 1694 and 1704, took place in 1704 and was carried out by Prince-Bishop Franz Anton Adolph von Wagensperg .
From then on, there was a division into an 'inner' and an 'outer' school, with pupils from the boarding school being taught in the 'inner' school and external girls in the 'outer' school. The curriculum consisted almost entirely of arts subjects. After Maria Theresa's school reform in 1775, the Ursulines quickly adapted the school to the new requirements. The Empress was enthusiastic about the sisters' methods and visited the school several times during her stays in Graz. Her son, Emperor Joseph II , also paid a few visits to the monastery school. She was spared the dissolution at the time of the Josephinian reforms due to the teaching activities of the sisters. The occupation of Graz by Napoleon did not lead to any restrictions in school operations.
The first matriculation examination in the new teacher training institute was taken on July 30, 1869. In the same year the ursuline schools were restructured, with the order having to stop teaching because of the opening of a state teacher training institute. Due to the increase in population in Graz and the resulting lack of space, it was decided to build a new Ursuline monastery in Leonhardstrasse , where the school and the convent are still located today. The building complex in Sackstrasse became the property of the school sisters in 1900.
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- ↑ a b c d e History of the Ursuline Convent and School in Graz ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , ursulinen.asn-graz.ac.at
Coordinates: 47 ° 4 ′ 23 " N , 15 ° 26 ′ 8.3" E