Haller women's pen
The Haller Damenstift was a monastery in the town of Hall in Tyrol that existed between 1567 and 1783 .
The Haller Damenstift was founded in 1567 by Ferdinand II for his two single sisters, Archduchess Magdalena and Helena . The site of theSparberegg Castle , which was the seat of the mint from 1477 to 1567. After the foundation stone was laid, the two women were able to move into the building with 40 canonies in 1569. The monastery building and the collegiate church (now Sacred Heart Basilica ), consecrated in 1570, were built in the Renaissance style by the Italian builders Giovanni and Alberto Lucchese . The women's monastery included other buildings in Hall such as the Kapellmeisterhaus, the boys' seminar, the Thurnfeld residence and the monastery garden with the Stiftsmaierei, the summer house and the monastery doctor's house. The spiritual care of the monastery was taken over by the Jesuit order , which settled in the immediate vicinity.
Since the women's monastery in Hall was supposed to offer a carefree, pious life to women of the high nobility, the monastery was financially well endowed, with the superiors trying to invest their assets well. Countess Spaur and Vallör acquired for example, the deposit rule over the court Lienz with the Dutch courts Kal , Virgen and Defereggen and the rule of Heinfels .
The abbey complex was changed significantly as early as 1611/12. The redesign of the Jesuit monastery and the new construction of the Jesuit church gave the complex a baroque character. An earthquake in 1670 made a second redesign necessary.
In 1783 Emperor Josef II abolished the Haller Damenstift. The monastery building was subsequently used as a residential building and the church was profaned . The city hospital was established here in 1845. It was not until 1912 that the monastery building and the church were restored to their original purpose, when the Belgian Order Filles du Sacré Coeur used the building at the instigation of Archduke Ferdinand Karl . The claused daughters of the saint. The hearts of Jesus are dedicated to daily adoration and are called “white doves” in Hall because of their religious dress.
literature
- Nikolaus Grass : The women's monastery and its art monuments , in: Haller book. Festschrift for the 650th anniversary of the city elevation (Schlern-Schriften 106) Innsbruck 1953, pp. 337–394.
- Brigitta Lauro: The tombs of the Habsburgs. Art monuments of a European dynasty , Vienna 2007, pp. 126–130.
- Robert Rebitsch : Magdalena, Archduchess of Austria. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 21, Bautz, Nordhausen 2003, ISBN 3-88309-110-3 , Sp. 876-881.
Web links
- Königliches Damenstift , hallmultimedial.at
- Website of today's Sacred Heart Monastery
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 52 ″ N , 11 ° 30 ′ 35 ″ E