Franciscan monastery Reutte

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Franciscan Church of St. Anna and Monastery (2011)

The Franciscan Monastery Reutte was a Franciscan monastery in the market town of Reutte in the Reutte district in Tyrol . It existed from 1628 to 2014. The current parish vicariate church, which is under the patronage of St. Anne , was the monastery church of this monastery. It belongs to the deanery of Breitenwang in the diocese of Innsbruck and is under monument protection in the structural association with the former monastery .

history

There was a first chapel in Reutte before 1400. It was also consecrated to St. Anna. The current church was built in 1500. On March 15, 1628, the foundation stone for the Franciscan monastery in Reutte was laid in the presence of the founder Archduke Leopold V and his wife Claudia von Medici . The Franciscans of the Tyrolean Franciscan Province received the adjacent church for their pastoral work. After two years of construction, the monastery was completed in 1630. As early as July 1632, during the Thirty Years War , Swedish soldiers damaged and plundered the monastery and the church.

The monastery complex burned down in 1703 and 1846, but was rebuilt with the financial help of the Reutte population. In the 18th century, the monastery housed a separate theology course for the offspring of the Tyrolean Franciscan Province. From 1775 to 1782, the Franciscans also worked as military chaplains at Ehrenberg Castle . Reutte was a novitiate monastery from 1820 to 1861 .

Due to the strong population growth of Reutte, a separate parish was set up at the monastery church in 1945 . In order to create a place for parish meetings, the "Paulusheim" was built from 1959 to 1961. From 1961 to 1967 the church was gradually renovated and redesigned, and in 1976 the belfry was renewed. From 1977 to 2000 the monastery again housed the novitiate of the Tyrolean order province. On September 1, 2014, the monastery, in which three priests and a lay brother lived, was closed by the order province due to a lack of staff.

Anna Church

The inner
Anna selbdritt in the Franciscan Church Reutte ( copper engraving )
The Reutten Easter grave

The sober Franciscan church in the town center, parallel to the street, is structurally connected to the monastery building, which was added to the existing, essentially Gothic church around 1630 . Probably in connection with the construction of the monastery, the first baroque redesign of the church was carried out. Next to the Gothic choir is the baroque nave under a hipped roof . The nave and choir have arched windows. The church tower stands south by the choir and partly in the south wing of the monastery building and has arched sound windows and an onion helmet . During the fire on August 16, 1846, in addition to the late Baroque furnishings, the onion helmet of the tower was also destroyed and replaced by a tent roof during the reconstruction . It was not until 1981 that the tower received an onion helmet again.

A narrow anteroom is followed by a wide five- bay nave with a double gallery in the west under a flat barrel vault on warriors . Behind the drawn-in triumphal arch is the drawn-in two-bay choir with a 3/8 end under a lancet barrel vault on consoles.

Furnishing

During an extensive restoration of the church between 1964 and 1967, the interior decoration was removed, and some special pieces were brought to life in a new and different way. Instead of a high altar, the church choir closes with the group of figures Anna selbdritt (around 1515) by Jörg Lederer on a platform that is framed by a halo designed in the 1960s. A crucifix by Balthasar Jais from Breitenwang hangs above the canteen on the left side altar . Anton Sturm created the two not belonging and too small assistant figures ( Maria and Apostle ) ; the two original figures by Jais are now in the Breitenwang funeral hall. The side altar sheet of St Anthony of Padua above the canteen of the right side altar was painted by Paul Zeiller in 1708 . In addition to the trumpet angel (around 1770), which originally had its place on a pulpit roof, the figures Magnus and Afra , created by Ignaz Waibl in 1703, come from Breitenwang. The concrete Stations of the Cross were created in 1970 by the sculptor Rudolf Millonig . The epitaph, cast in ore for Kaspar Bissinger, bears the year 1633.

Christmas crib and Easter grave

Since the fire of 1846 destroyed almost the entire church inventory, a wooden crib and a new Easter grave were acquired in the following years . They were set up every year at the respective festive times in the monastery church and were used to illustrate the Christmas and Easter events. After many years in which this custom was no longer considered appropriate, the crib and grave were restored and re-erected:

  • The nativity scene was transferred here from the Franciscan monastery in Hall in Tirol . The crib was created by the painter Franz Michael Hueber around 1738 and is therefore probably the oldest wooden crib preserved in Tyrol. As a special feature, in addition to the usual Three Wise Men , it shows a fourth who, according to legend, came too late to worship the baby Jesus because he performed many works of mercy on the way. After a break of almost 30 years, the crib was put up in the church every year from 1991.
  • The Easter grave was built in 1848 by the painter Anton Köpfle (1807–1879) from Höfen and the master carpenter Josef Schweighofer. It was erected for the last time in 1936 and, after being renovated since 2004, shines again in the monastery church during the Easter period.

Bells

The ringing of the parish church of Reutte includes five bells , all of which were cast in 1948 by the Franz Oberascher bell foundry in Salzburg.

The tuning of the bells is:
H 0 dis 1 f sharp 1 g sharp 1 h 1

Web links

Commons : Franziskanerkloster Reutte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sakralbauten.at: Parish Church Sankt Anna Reutte , accessed on May 29, 2020.
  2. ↑ pfarre-reutte-OFM
  3. ↑ Florentin Nothegger: The Franciscan Monastery in Reutte . In: Festschrift for the 350th anniversary . Reutte 1978.
  4. ^ Franciscans say goodbye to Reutte , tirol.orf.at of August 31, 2014
  5. ↑ sakralbauten.at: Parish Church Sankt Anna Reutte , accessed on May 29, 2020.
  6. ↑ sakralbauten.at: Parish Church Sankt Anna Reutte , accessed on May 29, 2020.
  7. ↑ Parish Vicariate and Franciscan Church hl. Anna. In: The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 , Vienna 1980, pp. 643–644.
  8. ↑ sakralbauten.at: Parish Church Sankt Anna Reutte , accessed on May 29, 2020.
  9. ↑ Lorenz Staud (Ed.): Easter grave and Christmas crib. St. Anna Monastery Church - Reutte . Reutte 2004.
  10. ↑ Reutte (Tyrol - A) bells of the parish and monastery church St. Anna

Coordinates: 47 ° 29 ′ 18 ″  N , 10 ° 43 ′ 6 ″  E