Franciscan Province of Austria

Sgraffito for the itinerant preacher Johannes Capistranus (1386-1456) at the Franciscan monastery in Frauenkirchen

The Franciscan Province of Austria to Saint Leopold in Austria and South Tyrol is an order province of the Franciscans (OFM) in Austria and South Tyrol . It has the patronage of Saint Leopold of Austria . Since 2009 the Franciscans have also belonged to the province in Switzerland in the form of a dependent custody , the custody of Christ the King .

history

The beginning of a province of the Franciscans in so-called Austria took place with Johannes Capistranus in the rural area from 1451 with St. Theobald ob der Laimgrube in the suburb Mariahilf near Vienna. This first monastery was destroyed in 1529. In 1458, the Radegundis Church in Katzelsdorf in Lower Austria was handed over to the Franciscan monastery of St. Theobald ob der Laimgrube by the foundation couple Johann Sigismund and Anna von Weißpriach, whereby the second monastery was founded there.

In October 2007, the Tyrolean Franciscan Province of Blessed Engelbert Kolland was united with the Provincialate in the Franciscan Monastery of Innsbruck with the Austrian Franciscan Province of St. Bernard of Siena with the Provincialate in the Franciscan Monastery of Vienna . The joint provincial office was set up in the Franciscan monastery in Salzburg .

In the course of the early 2010s, some smaller monasteries were closed due to obsolescence and some were converted into other pastoral care institutions.

Head / Provincial

• 2007–2011 Rupert Schwarzl
• since 2011 Oliver Ruggenthaler

Branches

Austria and South Tyrol

The branches of the Franciscans in Austria and South Tyrol are (as of 2018):

• Monasteries:
  • Salzburg  (Sbg); Enns  (Upper Austria); Pupping  (Upper Austria); Maria Enzersdorf  (Lower Austria); St. Pölten  (Lower Austria); Vienna  (I.); Güssing  (Bgld); Eisenstadt  (Bgld); Franciscan monastery Frauenkirchen  (Bgld); Graz  (Styria); Maria Lankowitz  (Styria); Villach  (Ktn); Hall  (Tir); Innsbruck  (Tir); Lienz  (Tir); Schwaz  (Tir); Telfs  (Tir); Bolzano  (Bz); Brixen  (Bz); Kaltern  (Bz)

• Schools and student dormitories in Hall (Tir) and Bozen (Bz)

• Dissolved monasteries
  • San Candido  (Bz)

• • Franciscan Hospice Bad Gleichenberg  (Styrian monastery dissolved in 2010)

• • Meeting place Shalomkloster Maria Schmolln  (Upper Austria - dissolved in 2013)
  • Reutte  (Tir, abandoned in 2014).

Custody of Christ the King in Switzerland OFM

The Franciscan monastery of Mariaburg in Näfels, the Franciscan convent of Sankt Otmar im Werd and the Maria Dreibrunnen house in Bronschhofen belong to the Custodia Christi Regis in Helvetia OFM .

Known members

• Engelbert Kolland
• Dominikus Kraschl
• Franz Lackner , Archbishop of Salzburg (1999–2002 Provincial of the Austrian Franciscan Province)
• Gottfried Wegleitner

literature

• Ludwig Raber: The fate of the Austrian Franciscan Province at the time of Josef II. Dissertation. University of Vienna, Vienna 1953.

Web links

• Website of the Franciscans in Austria and South Tyrol (franziskaner.at)
• Franciscan Province of Austria from St. Leopold in Austria and South Tyrol , department for the cultural assets of the orders

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Franciscans in Austria and South Tyrol under new management. Archdiocese of Vienna , May 9, 2011.
2. ↑ franziskaner.at

Coordinates: 47 ° 47 ′ 52.1 ″  N , 13 ° 2 ′ 31 ″  E