Gymnasium and Realgymnasium Sachsenbrunn
The Sachsenbrunn grammar school and secondary school is located in the market town of Kirchberg am Wechsel in the Neunkirchen district in Lower Austria . The Gymnasium and Realgymnasium belong to the Archdiocese of Vienna .
history
A noble farm with the owner Hans Sachs was mentioned in a document around 1500. After 1541 this was acquired by the Kirchberg am Wechsel choir. In 1570 the Edelhof belongs to Count Wurmbrand. In 1637 the Kirchberg women's choir bought the Edelhof again. After the abolition of the monastery, the Edelhof had changing owners from 1782. In 1828 the Archdiocese of Vienna acquired the Edelhof.
The core of the farm buildings from the 16th and 17th centuries have been preserved and were rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century. By 1963, a seminar was built according to the plans of the architect Robert Kramreiter , whereby older buildings were included. On September 21, 1959, Cardinal Franz König consecrated the still unfinished new building and opened the first school year. The seminary chapel was consecrated in 1963.
From 1966 to 1987 Kurt Knotzinger was spiritual, teacher and choirmaster in Sachsenbrunn.
Architecture and art in construction
The two to three-storey complex around two open courtyards has an entrance courtyard to the south, flanked by two former farm buildings. The right old building has a barrel vault with stitch caps on the ground floor and a ring of stitch caps in the corner tower protruding to the east.
The entrance front of the new building is decorated with a mosaic of the Annunciation by the painter Rudolf Szyszkowitz .
The seminar chapel on the upper floor of the west wing is a high, light hall with a flat ceiling and small side chapels. Lydia Roppolt created the brightly colored stained glass on the entire north wall, designed as a concrete-glass mosaic, and in the side chapels, depicting priestly models from the Old and New Testaments.
There are statues of a Pietà from the end of the 15th century, a late Gothic Madonna (around 1520) and a statue of St. Joseph with the baby Jesus from the beginning of the 18th century.
The staircase is adorned with a wall painting The career of a priest by Alfred Wickenburg (1959).
literature
- The art monuments of Austria. Dehio Lower Austria south of the Danube 2003 . Kirchberg am Wechsel-Aussen, Seminar and Gymnasium of the Archdiocese of Vienna, pp. 936–937.
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Coordinates: 47 ° 35 ′ 53.6 ″ N , 16 ° 0 ′ 24.2 ″ E