Franciscan Church and St. Michael Monastery
The Franciscan Church and the St. Michael Monastery is a listed building belonging to the Franciscans (OFM) in Eisenstadt in Burgenland and since 1980 the monastery building has also been partially used as a diocesan museum.
history
At the current location there was a minorite monastery with the church of St. John the Evangelist, which was destroyed in 1529 during the first Turkish siege of Vienna . The square remained deserted until Count Nikolaus Esterházy founded a Franciscan monastery in 1625. From 1625 to 1629 the monastery was built to the north of the newly built Franciscan church, including Gothic components, in the central axis of Joseph-Haydn-Gasse and consecrated in 1630. Around and after 1705 five tombs were built under the church. Church and monastery were burned down in the course of the second Turkish siege of Vienna and were completely restored by 1772. In 1770 Stephan Dorfmeister decorated the refectory with oil paintings and frescoes; including depictions of the Last Supper as well as St. Anthony of Padua and St. Francis. From 1777 to 1778 the west tower of the church was rebuilt. From 1856 to 1857 the princely crypt of the Esterházy was rebuilt and expanded.
In 1898 a renovation took place, from 1958 to 1959 an interior restoration, in 1971 another exterior renovation.
In 2018, the Franciscan order announced that the monastery was handing over to the Diocese of Eisenstadt in the same year after the last two priests left the monastery. The church is looked after by the Kalasantine order.
museum
In 1980 the diocesan museum was set up on the second floor of the Franciscan monastery and the permanent collection was expanded in the years that followed. In annually changing special exhibitions, topics such as Burgenland church history and ecclesiastical cultural history such as pilgrimages, veneration of saints, church music, glass windows or popular piety are illuminated.
literature
- Dehio Burgenland 1976 , Eisenstadt, Franciscan Church of St. Michael and Kloster, p. 71ff.
Web links
- Federal Monuments Office : Franciscan Church and St. Michael Monastery with the Esterházy family crypt
Individual evidence
- ^ Franciscans leave Eisenstadt on ORF November 10, 2018, accessed on November 10, 2018
- ^ Eisenstadt Tourismus: Diocesan Museum Eisenstadt ; accessed on Sep. 1 2017
Coordinates: 47 ° 50 ′ 50 ″ N , 16 ° 31 ′ 26.1 ″ E