Franciscan monastery Lienz
The Franciscan monastery Lienz is located in the center of the city of Lienz in East Tyrol and was formerly a Carmelite monastery .
history
As a replacement for the Franciscan monastery in Innsbruck , which was abolished by Emperor Joseph II on April 11, 1785 and which today houses the Tyrolean Folk Art Museum, the Carmelite monastery in Lienz was handed over to the Franciscans . The Carmelites had to leave the monastery so that the Franciscans (OFM) could move in on April 19, 1785. Your areas of responsibility should be pastoral care and school service in Lienz. Of the 22 members of the new convention , six were professors at the Lienz grammar school and two as teachers at the normal school . The Franciscans have been looking after the Dominican nunnery ("Klösterle") as confessors since 1787 . In 1788 an auxiliary parish for the city of Lienz was set up at the monastery church, and the Franciscans began their pastoral work in the hospital.
On April 11, 1798, the roof of the monastery and the church were destroyed in the fire in Lienz. In addition, the first decades of existence for the monastery were very turbulent due to the political circumstances ( Enlightenment , Tyrolean freedom fight). In 1807 the Lienz grammar school was abolished by the ruling Bavarian government, thereby depriving the Franciscans of their financial base. In 1809 a large part of the monastery had to be cleared for the billeting of soldiers. Although the number of members of the convent fell to 13 in 1815 during these troubled times, the monastery was able to recover and develop its pastoral work in Lienz and the surrounding area.
Difficult years only returned during the National Socialist rule . In 1938 the Franciscans were banned from collecting food for their maintenance. In 1940, large parts of the monastery had to be cleared for a possible museum, which was later housed in Bruck Castle. After the Second World War , Bishop Paulus Rusch established the parish “St. Marien ”at the monastery church. The monastery was expanded in 1968 for parish activities and the church was renovated between 1974 and 1978.
Today the approx. 5 Franciscans of the Lienz convent look after the parish “St. Marien ”, in whose area around 4200 Catholics live, and are also on the road for pastoral workers in the vicinity of Lienz. They also work as pastors in hospitals, in old people's homes and for the Dominican women.
Attractions
- Gothic frescoes in the monastery church from the 15th century
- Cloister of the monastery with pictures from the Carmelite period (1705)
- Lourdes grotto in the cloister (1972)
- Winged altar with a representation of Mary in the midst of the apostles in the monastery church by José Pirkner (1976)
- Mosaic picture (Mary as the giver of all graces) on the church front by José Pirkner (1978)
literature
- Florentin Nothegger: Special issue of the Osttiroler Heimatblätter for the 200th anniversary of the Franciscan monastery in Lienz . Lienz 1985.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Text identical to: kloester.franziskaner.de: Lienz.
Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ′ 50 " N , 12 ° 45 ′ 58" E