Frauenkirche Maria the Glorious (Baden)

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Frauenkirche Maria the Glorious
Interior view of the Frauenkirche Maria the Glorious

The Frauenkirche in Frauengasse 3 in the city of Baden in Lower Austria was first mentioned in the 13th century in a document from the Heiligenkreuz Abbey as Marienkirche in Baden.

In 1285 Leutold von Chreusbach and his wife Offemia and their children donated the Church of Our Lady and the adjacent courtyard to the Augustinian hermits .

Church and monastery played an important role in the conversion of Duke Friedrich Augustus the Strong (1670–1733), Elector of Saxony, to the Catholic faith: Here he secretly converted on June 1, 1697 in order to be able to become King of Poland.

In 1811/12, when four priests and three lay brothers were occupied, the monastery was finally abolished. The Baden town fire of 1812 caused extensive damage to the buildings. In 1818 Joseph Friedrich Freiherr von Haan (1777–1834) acquired the ruins of the church and monastery, had both renovated (the monastery by Joseph Kornhäusel ) and sold the property (s) in 1826 to Emperor Franz I, who resided seasonally in Baden (see also : Kaiserhaus , Hauptplatz 17). The church was consecrated again in 1827 and declared a court church in 1828. 1917/18 she performed as such under Emperor Charles I once again into operation in 1919, it was as Frauenkirche the parish of St. Stephen as a subsidiary incorporated .

The originally baroque hall church under a hip hipped roof was restored in classicist forms in 1825/26 . The presented, essentially baroque, low double tower facade is integrated into the closed structure of Frauengasse. The classical two-zone west facade with plaster quaderung and scoring, probably by Joseph Kornhäusel (renovated in 1924 and 1934). Between eaves-like towers, each with mansard roofs covered with dormer roofs over a circumferential eaves cornice , there is a shallow central projection with flat gables . Portal the rectangle with straight Hood Mold over volutes consoles is a high arched windows in rectangular plaster framing and set balustrade superposed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Frauenkirche. In: frauenkirche-baden.at. Archived from the original on March 20, 2011 ; accessed on October 31, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The existence of the Baden monastery: 1285–1545, 1584–1811. - Susanna Maria Hiegesberger: The architecture of the mendicant orders and medieval town planning in Lower Austria . Thesis. University of Vienna, Vienna 2009, p. 124.
  3. ↑ Ernst Günther: The thumb impression of August the strong. 16 royal Saxon miniatures. 2nd edition, Husum, Husum 2007. ISBN 978-3-89876-153-6 . P. 87f.
  4. ^ Anton Klein: History of Christianity in Austria and Styria . Volume VII. Mechitaristen, Vienna 1842, p. 194.
  5. ^ Wallner: Häuser , p. 98.
  6. ^ Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube . P. 159.
  7. ^ Aichinger-Rosenberger: Lower Austria south of the Danube . P. 161.

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 ′ 25.6 ″  N , 16 ° 14 ′ 3.8 ″  E