Franciscan monastery Telfs
The Franciscan Telfs is a Franciscan church and monastery of the Franciscans in the market town Telfs in the district Innsbruck-Land in Tyrol . The church and the monastery are under monument protection .
history
The Franciscan monastery was founded at the beginning of the 18th century at the instigation of Pastor Franz Oberperger and the noble families Schölling and Sterzinger. In December 1701 the first Franciscans came to Telfs and initially used part of the courthouse as accommodation. From 1703 to 1706 the monastery and the church were built by master mason Christian Haim according to the plans of Superior Father Gregor Karneider.
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the Franciscans devoted themselves to pastoral care in Telfs and in the Tyrolean Upper Inn Valley. They were valued as preachers, confessors and collecting fathers and also contributed to the spread of the devotions of the Cross . Under the ecclesiastical repression of Emperor Joseph II and the Bavarian rule over Tyrol , the number of Franciscans in Telfs fell to six in 1820.
In the 19th century the convent recovered and it was possible to pursue pastoral work without hindrance. In addition, some renovation work was started on the monastery and church. In 1824 a garden house was built on the east side of the monastery wall, which Leopold Puelacher decorated with paintings from the life of St. Francis . From 1867 to 1871 the monastery church was gradually renovated and received its current shape. For the 200th anniversary in 1904, Josef Pfefferle created a mosaic of the Immaculate Conception on the church facade .
From 1927 the novitiate of the Tyrolean Franciscan Province was housed in the monastery , but it had to be closed in 1940 under the National Socialist rule . In February 1941, most of the monastery was also confiscated by the Wehrmacht and civilians were later quartered. After they moved out in 1960, the Franciscans set up the Engelbertinum seminar in the monastery , which until 1990 enabled so-called late callers to study theology or enter religious orders. Telfs was also a novitiate again from 1961 to 1976. From 1987 to 1989 the church was renovated and from 2002 to 2004 the monastery was completely refurbished.
Today the Franciscan monastery in Telfs is a house of spiritual contemplation for religious and lay people. The postulate of the Franciscans, a first phase of living in the monastery and getting to know religious life, is also housed there.
As of September 2011, three Franciscans are living in the monastery.
Franciscan Church of the Conception
The nave stands under a steep gable roof, which is curved at the beginning, and carries a small polygonal roof turret. The retracted choir with a straight end and the side chapel built in the middle of the nave in the west have hipped roofs. The arched windows are strikingly narrow and high. The south facade is divided into three axes and two storeys and has an arched portal between the oculi and a raised oculi between the arched windows. In the gable is a mosaic Maria Immaculata by the mosaic artist Josef Pfefferle (1903/1904).
The nave and, behind a round arched triumphal arch, the retracted choir, each under a stitch cap barrel vault on narrow cornice consoles, are designed in a sober Franciscan style. In the middle of the nave on the left is a side chapel St. Anna, donated by Johann Schölling, on the occasion of the Bavarian invasion of 1703. The Anna chapel is square and cross-vaulted and begins with a round arch. On the right, the nave has circular skylights due to the attached monastery. The organ loft in the south is vaulted with a cross ridge and has a balustrade that protrudes in the middle and is open to the ship below in three round arches on Nagelfluh columns. Corresponding to the altars there are wrought-iron late Rococo grids with the monograms of Saints Francis, Mary and Antonius.
Furnishing
The simple altars (1867) and the Anna altar (1871) and the pulpit (1876) were created by Johann Lener according to the plans of Father Bertrand Schöpf. The high altar painting Maria Immaculata venerated by four Franciscan saints and the four continents was painted by brother Hilarius Landschnegg aka Hilarius Auffenbacher in 1710. The side altar paintings hll. Francis and Anthony of Padua are from the beginning of the 18th century. The Anna altar shows the altar sheet Holy Family with Anna selbdritt in the foreground by the painter Caspar Waldmann (1706) and bears the baroque statues Florian and Blasius. The pulpit has a crucifix from the beginning of the 18th century on the basket.
In the cafeteria the body of St. Martyr Aurelia . There is a copy of the miraculous image of Maria Pötsch Vienna around 1700, which the Provincial Father Eustach Kracker had made on a pledge for the successful founding of the monastery in Telfs. The Pietà was created in 1898 by the sculptor Andreas Einberger , who at that time worked in the workshop of Josef Bachlechner the Elder . The large station pictures are from 1733. There is a tombstone in the Anna chapel of Leopold Lorenz Graf Fieger, court lord in Hörtenberg, 1716. A picture of the Virgin Mary by the painter Leopold Kupelwieser (1865), a gift from Archduchess Sophie, is in custody.
The organ was built in 1898 by Matthäus Mauracher .
Monastery and cemetery
The simple monastery was completely renovated and the roof was expanded in 1927 and is surrounded by a rectangular garden. A garden house attached to the east under a four-sided hood shows frescoed scenes from the life of St. Francis by the painter Leopold Puellacher (1824). An atmospheric monastery cemetery was laid out in 1786 to the west of the church between Anna's chapel and monastery.
War memorial
The war memorial on the right in the forecourt has an arcade leading into a chapel. The sculptor Andreas Einberger (1921) created the group of figures crucified between two soldiers from sandstone. The war memorial was expanded with architect Hubert Fragner (1957).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Tirol 1980 . Telfs, Franciscan Church and Monastery, pp. 792–793.
- Johann Gapp among others: 300 years of Franciscans in Telfs. Bolzano 2004.
Web links
- Franciscans Austria and South Tyrol: Franciscan monastery Telfs
Individual evidence
- ^ Farewell and welcome party in Telfer Franciscan Monastery telfs.eu, September 11th, 2011
Coordinates: 47 ° 18 '27.4 " N , 11 ° 4' 15.8" E