Franciscan monastery Innsbruck
The Franciscan monastery Innsbruck was founded by Emperor Ferdinand I to look after the court church in Innsbruck ( Tyrol ).
history
When the later Emperor Ferdinand I had the Innsbruck Court Church built for the tomb of his grandfather Emperor Maximilian I in 1553 , a monastery building - called the “New Abbey” - was added to the church. After a long search, Ferdinand I summoned Franciscans (OFM) of the Order Province from Venice to Innsbruck in 1563 to live in the monastery and to take care of the court church. Due to linguistic difficulties, however, they were replaced by German Franciscans in 1574. In 1580 the Innsbruck monastery became the headquarters of the newly founded Tyrolean Franciscan Province . The Provincial lived in Innsbruck and the chapters - assemblies of the Order Province - were always held there. It also housed an in-house theological teaching institution and a large library.
On April 11, 1785, the Innsbruck monastery was abolished under Emperor Joseph II and the building was used as a general seminary for state priest training. As a replacement, the Franciscans received the former Carmelite monastery in Lienz . Some of the 62 Franciscans living in the Innsbruck monastery at that time found refuge there or in other monasteries. A few, like the important theology editor Father Herkulan Oberrauch , stayed in Innsbruck and lived in a house on Sillgasse .
The monastery building only served as a general seminary until 1790. In 1830 the Theresian Knight Academy was housed there under the direction of the Jesuits and from 1866 to 1910 it housed a grammar school. Today the premises are used by the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum .
In 1832, however, the Franciscans received the former infirmary, which was adjacent to the abolished monastery, back and expanded it into the new Innsbruck Franciscan monastery. In 1872 the monastery was connected to the court church again by an extension. In the 1970s the monastery building was rebuilt and until 2007 it served as the seat of the provincial of the Tyrolean Franciscan Province. The main task of the Innsbruck Franciscans today, as then, is the pastoral care of the court church.
literature
- Florentin Nothegger. In: Messages from the Tyrolean Franciscan Province. Episode 100, 1964
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Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '4 " N , 11 ° 23' 44" E