Hellerhof (Paudorf)
The Hellerhof in Paudorf in Lower Austria , with the main building, the modern parish church of St. Altmann and the old chapel of John the Baptist, represents the parish center and the seat of the Paudorf-Göttweig parish. It belongs to the market town of Paudorf in the middle Fladnitztal on the eastern edge of the Dunkelsteinerwald . This area south of the Göttweig Benedictine monastery is part of the political district of Krems-Land in the federal state of Lower Austria.
history
12th to 17th centuries
Dietmarsdorf once rose up where the Hellerhof stands today . It was founded by the Archbishop of Salzburg Dietmar I (873–907), had ten houses in the Middle Ages, but became deserted in the 14th and 15th centuries. Only the (Heller) court and the mill survived.
In 1386 the Counts of Hardegg insisted on their sovereignty over the Salzburg fiefdom Dietmannsdorf. In 1477 they handed the farm over to the Göttweig Abbey for free. Now it was called Dietmannshof , also called Hollerhof after a later owner .
Among the numerous prominent owners stand out Hans Krull von der Seligenstat (doctor of the seven liberal arts and medicine at the University of Vienna) and Magdalena Gerhardtin, nee. von Altenau (daughter of Salzburg Archbishop Wolf Dietrich von Raitenau ). Magdalena von Altenau sold the Dietmannshof as a widow in 1637 to the Göttweig monastery under Abbot Gregor Corner, the author of the "Gros Catolisch Gesangbuch".
Abbot Gregor Heller had the courtyard converted from 1650 to 1651 under master builder Mathias Canevale into a splendid recreational courtyard - since then it has been called the Hellerhof . Grottoes and fountains were added to the two ponds in the garden. In 1653 Onophrius Strohvogel (painter from Dürnstein) painted a grotto and gilded the clock hands . In 1665, master Rava Rueber Donato (plasterer) improved the “water grotto” and the “New World”, “St. Gregor ”and“ Eremitoria ”. In 1695 Abbot Berthold Mayr bought a fish basin made of blue marble for 1100 guilders and statues for 200 guilders from Salzburg stonemason Pernegger . The Göttweiger monks could now use the courtyard for monthly recreation. In 1678, Abbot Johannes Dizent dedicated the newly designed chapel to John the Baptist. At that time (1679 and 1680) the plague raged in the villages around the Göttweiger Berg. During the Second Turkish Siege of Vienna (1683), Salva Guardia riders camped in the courtyard , so it was not destroyed.
18th century
On July 13, 1712, the courtyard burned down to the ground. Master builder Jakob Prandtauer traveled to the fire inspection. However, there are no archive files on the reconstruction of the Hellerhof. In the following years the Hellerhof remained interesting as a recreation yard for the Göttweiger Konvent. In 1731 a new wooden summer house was built, and in 1745 the high altar of the Hellerhof church was renovated. For Abbot Gottfried Bessel (1714–1749), however, the Meidling Castle (in the valley) , which he expanded and provided with an orangery, became increasingly important.
Under Abbot Magnus Klein (1768–1783) the spirit of the Enlightenment took effect. The time of pleasure palaces was over. This finally became law under Emperor Joseph II (1780–1790). A third of all Austrian monasteries fell victim to his patent. Novices were no longer allowed to be admitted to the monasteries (Göttweig). The Hellerhof was only important as a fish supplier because of its ponds.
19th century
In 1812 a fire destroyed the Hellerhof barn . This occasion later provided Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941) with the material for the opera “Der Evangelimann”. After the Battle of Königgrätz (1866), the Hellerhof was briefly used as a hospital for wounded soldiers.
20th century
From 1905 a school mass was celebrated weekly in the Hellerhof chapel for the newly built elementary schools in Paudorf and Höbenbach . The establishment of a central elementary school in the Hellerhof had been rejected by the monastery. In the period from 1910 to 1936 the farm was leased as a “hunting lodge”. During this time, the wooden veranda was built, an attic apartment was expanded and an ornamental garden was built in the courtyard. Karl Hofbauer, the first doctor in the parish area, was one of the tenants of this time (1929–1936).
1939–1945, the farm and the Göttweig monastery were expropriated by the Nazi regime and transferred to the city of Krems . At the end of the war in 1945 it came back into the possession of the Göttweig Abbey. During the post-war period, the Hellerhof became more and more a parish center, where different groups met: From 1947 parish youth (1952 building of a parish home), 1947 parish library, 1951 young group, 1953 men's and 1954 women's movement, in 1971 the girls' choir "Glory Singers" was founded, which existed until 1999.
In February 1985 a considerable part of the Hellerhof Wall collapsed for no apparent reason, so the parish council founded a Hellerhof committee, which sought talks with Abbot Clemens Lashofer and Bishop Franz Zak and forged plans for the parish use of the ruinous Hellerhof. In 1986 the pastor was able to move his apartment from the monastery to the Hellerhof. From 1991 to 1993 the new parish church of St. Altmann was built after the Göttweig monastery had donated the Hellerhof to the Paudorf-Göttweig parish. In 1993 the parish seat was moved from Göttweig to the Hellerhof. That year, the market town of Paudorf leased the farm wing, adapted it and set up a library in it in 2001 and the Kienzl Museum in 2002. On October 20, 1996, the Hellerhof was consecrated as a parish center by Cardinal Franz König .
In October 1997 the Katholisches Bildungswerk Paudorf was founded. The first lecture in the Hellerhof was given by the well-known “herb pastor” Hermann-Josef Weidinger (1918–2004).
In the spring of 1998 events took place which made the town of Paudorf with its Hellerhof famous far beyond the district boundaries. On February 18, the pastor Father Udo Fischer was dismissed by the diocesan bishop Kurt Krenn. In connection with the "Causa Groer ", the priest incurred the displeasure of the bishop. The parish prepared for resistance. Declarations of solidarity from church circles, the media and the population were the result (170,000 signatures). The Abbot Clemens Lashofer, who was responsible for the successor, nominated Father Udo as the new pastor of the Paudorf-Göttweig parish on March 18. The official reinstatement took place in 2005 under Bishop Klaus Küng !
21st century
In December 2000, the St. Altmann Pilgrimage Society was founded. In 2001 the Hellerhof library was opened under the joint sponsorship of the market town of Paudorf and the Paudorf-Göttweig parish. The historical highlight of 2002 was the consecration of the David Gregor Corner organ by Cardinal Franz König. In 2003 the “Witzelsdorfer Altar” was erected in the Hellerhof garden: stone slabs from the fields of the former village of Witzelsdorf, near Höbenbach , were closed walled up a simple altar. A wedding will be celebrated here in 2004. This year the Paudorf-Göttweig parish also received the eastern part of the Hellerhof area (garden) as a gift from Göttweig Abbey. The following years were marked by the concert opera performances in the Hellerhof garden and various cultural events in the parish hall and in the Kienzl Museum.
Chapel of Johannes d. Baptist
Exterior: Rectangular structure with pilaster strips with lunette windows (semicircular arched field above the window) under a half-hipped roof and a two-storey onion helmet tower and a gabled rectangular portal. Inside: two-bay with groin vaults over ionizing pilasters and entablature. Heavy, early baroque stucco from 1678 on the capitals and in the vault. Former sacristy in the south of the same width and separated by a wall (opened in 1970 to enlarge the room).
The old court chapel, whose core dates back to the 13th century, was consecrated again in 1618. In 1624 it had a tower and bells, in 1634 three altars and more than 20 pictures.
In 1677 and 1678 Abbot Johannes Dizent had the chapel decorated by artists to commemorate his election day (June 24, 1672) and consecrated John the Baptist.
The altar was created by Matthias Schwanthaler from Krems, the no longer existing altarpiece by Johann Spillenberger from Kaschau. The stucco comes from Donatus Rueber ("Wiener Stuckschule"), the stone frescoes from Michael Christoph Grabenberger. The chapel is considered to be the main work of Italian-South German stucco art in the Krems district. In 1783 the chapel escaped being abolished by Emperor Joseph II, because the Sunday Christian teachings for the believers in the parishes of Göttweig and Steinaweg were held in it. Since December 8, 1939, Sunday and public holiday services have been celebrated here on a regular basis. After the abolition of the monastery by the Nazi regime, the pastor moved one of the two Sunday masses here. In 1962, the altar was given a portatile, consecrated in 1955 by Bishop Coadjutor Franz König, and in 1970 the chapel was enlarged with the addition of the sacristy area.
On October 20, 2002, Cardinal Franz König blesses the two bronze steles (“Göttweiger All Saints Steles”) by the Paudorf artist Leo Pfisterer with depictions of saints associated with the history of the parish:
- Marien stele (left): A maple tree bears the "Göttweiger Madonna" (wood copy from the 19th century). In the tree a biblical tabernacle with a New Testament from 1611. At the foot of the tree saints and blessed: Martyrs Florian and Georg, Abbess Erentrud, Inclusive Ava , Margravine Gerbirg, Abbot Udo of St. Blasien, Archbishop Dietmar I, Bishop Gotthard and Cardinal Karl Borromeo.
- Salvator stele (right): A rock with fish in the net of the fisherman and savior ("Salvator") Jesus Christ and two Salvator icons (16th century; 20th century) with a tabernacle of the host. Saints and blessed: Bishop Blasius, Abbot Michael Herrlich , Bishop Adalbero, Archbishop Gebhard, Margrave Leopold, Bishop Altmann, Abbot Berthold, Abbot Wirnto and monk father Benedikt.
Abbot Johannes Dizent Museum
The museum's motto is "Historical finds, important people" . It is named after Abbot Johannes Ev. V. Dizent (1642-1689). From 1672 he was the 48th abbot of the Benedictine Monastery of Göttweig, was considered a brilliant speaker and wrote the textbook for an opera for Emperor Leopold I. During his term of office, the monastery suffered severe visits (plague year 1680, Turkish year 1683).
The museum, which opened in June 2010, has four other rooms in addition to the chapel. It shows archaeological finds from the last millennia (beginning with the Paleolithic) with four main focuses: Göttweiger archaeologists (Abbot Adalbert Dungl, Father Lambert Karner and Father Leopold Hacker), Göttweiger Predigtstuhl , Kleiner Anzinger and the finds in the Lissen and at the Hellerhof . It also provides information about important people in the life of the parish: Parish founder Altmann , church patron and the only bishop of the former Greater Diocese of Passau, Cardinal König , who has been associated with the parish for 60 years since he was the cathedral curate of St. Pölten, and Richard Bamberger , Founder of the Austrian Youth Book Club.
The focus is also on the Hellerhof , whose last private owner Magdalena von Altenau was a great-great-niece of Pope Pius IV , and the St. Blasien branch church in Little Vienna, the first women's convent church of the Göttweig monastery, which was founded in 1083 as a double monastery.
Information is also provided about the Zellerweg, documented in Paudorf in 1360, and the pilgrimage to Mariazell and Santiago de Compostela . Another showroom is dedicated to the memory of the Nazi era in the Paudorf-Göttweig parish.
Parish Church of St. Altmann
Description of the building: Concrete and glass construction in the form of a tent with tall rectangular windows above the floor plan of 2 quarter-circle sections. Inside, a high, wide hall, the swinging roof structure converging over the altar.
In the morning of December 8, 1987, the parish celebrates the beginning of the 50th year of the introduction of Sunday masses in the Hellerhof. In the afternoon Abbot Clemens Lashofer, Mayor Anton Greimel, Pastor Pater Udo Fischer, Chaplain Pater Dominikus Stohl and the members of the Parish Council Franz Fahrnecker, Josef Rennhofer, Gottfried Einzinger, Karl Brugger, Johann Lechner, Walter Magerl, Franz Magerl and Christiane Skorsch sign the official Request from the parish to the diocese to set up a parish center in Hellerhof.
On May 5, 1991, the feast of the patron saint of the old parish church St. Gotthard and consecration day of the old Hellerhof chapel (1618), the groundbreaking ceremony for the new church takes place. On June 16, 1991, the anniversary of the solemn elevation of the relics of St. Altmann in 1362, the foundation stone was laid by Abbot Clemens Lashofer and diocesan building director Heinrich Fasching (later auxiliary bishop). The most prominent guest of honor is Br. Hieronymus M. Wierzba, the last secretary of St. Maximilian Kolbe .
The church is being built by master builder Leopold Sandler according to plans by the Höbenbach architect Friedrich Göbl. The artistic design is in the hands of Günter Wolfsberger (altar, ambo, tabernacle, window, statues of Mary with baby Jesus and St. Altmann as well as pictures of the Stations of the Cross). The total costs are just over a million euros.
After months of refusing, Bishop Kurt Krenn announced on September 8th that he was planning to come to the church consecration on September 12th, 1993. On this day, Mayor Karl Brugger presented the Abbot of the Göttweig Monastery, Clemens Lashofer, and the local pastor, Father Udo Fischer, with honorary citizenship.
On October 20, 1996, Cardinal Franz König consecrated the entire Hellerhof as a parish center. On the occasion of the millennium, an icon of Christ painted by the Paudorf artist Leo Pfisterer is set up in the presbytery, the windows of which symbolize the Trinity and Resurrection by Günter Wolfsberger. In 2001 the parish acquired a fasting cross composed of 13 images of Christ by the Viennese artist Gottfried Hula. On October 20, 2002, Cardinal Franz König inaugurated the David Gregor Corner organ (21 registers) built by master organ builder Gerhard Hradetzky . David Gregor Corner presented the second edition of his standard work “Gros Catolisch Gesangbuch” to the Hellerhof owner Gabriel Gerhardt and his wife Magdalena geb. Dedicated by Altenau. As abbot he acquired the Hellerhof for the Göttweig Abbey.
The Gothic baptismal font comes from the old Göttweig parish church of St. Gotthard, which was popularly known as the “Altmannikirche”. The founder of the parish was elected to be the patron saint of the new parish church: Bishop Altmann von Passau , the only bishop of the old Greater Diocese of Passau , from which the dioceses of Vienna , Linz and St. Pölten emerged.
coat of arms
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The parish coat of arms of the Paudorf-Göttweig parish in the Hellerhof:
- The right side stands for Göttweig, therefore right: The coat of arms of the Göttweig monastery (white cross on a red background with three green mountains).
- The left side stands for Paudorf (Hellerhof): A lay and an abbot coat of arms were deliberately chosen as a model:
- Above: From the coat of arms of the Hellerhof owner Daniel Härtl - black field, in the blue street three white elder blossoms (or roses). Daniel Härtl, as the owner of the "Hollerhof", erected the "bypassing cross" in 1618 on what was then the main road from Göttweig to Herzogenburg and had his coat of arms affixed there.
- Below: From the coat of arms of the eponymous abbot Gregor Holler - blue field, in the black street three golden yellow hellers.
- The alliance coat of arms is connected by the heart shield: black anchor in a golden yellow field (from the coat of arms of abbot Clemens Lashofer, under which the parish name was changed, the church was built and the parish seat was relocated.)
- Above the coat of arms: Bischofsmütze with the letter A (reference to Bishop Altmann , founder of the parish and patron of the parish church).
Kienzl Museum
A love and fire tragedy published by the Viennese police lawyer Leopold Meißner, which took place in the Hellerhof in 1812, provided the composer Wilhelm Kienzl with material for his opera “Der Evangelimann”, which premiered in Berlin in 1895. The aria "Blessed are those who suffer persecution" is familiar to innumerable radio listeners. The historical figure of " Evangelimann " was the abbot of Göttweig, born in Paudorf, Engelbert Schwerdfeger.
The market town of Paudorf adapted the Hellerhof's farm wing and opened a Kienzl Museum in 2002 (including items on loan from the City of Vienna and other institutions).
Historical garden
A pond in the Hellerhof is mentioned as early as 1440, and a wall was built in 1543. In 1624 there were two ponds, a kitchen and a pleasure garden. From 1649, under Abbot Gregor Heller, the garden was converted into a baroque splendid garden with a summer house, fountain, ponds, water features and four grottos.
The era of Emperor Joseph II (1780–1790) is the end of the magnificent garden . Orchards and forest gardens are the subsequent purpose of the area. The large pond was filled in in the middle of the 19th century, the small one around 1970. The 800-meter-long surrounding wall is falling into disrepair. The parish-owned part (approx. 540 m) is being restored by volunteers from 1999 to 2001, as is one of the two round towers from around 1650 (the second was probably removed in the 19th century).
Efforts to bring the historic garden back to life were successful. In the summer of 2005, 900 visitors heard the concert performance of W. Kienzl's opera “Der Evangelimann” in the Hellerhof garden, in 2006 WA Mozart's “The Abduction from the Seraglio” was performed and in 2007 CM v. Weber's "Der Freischütz". In 2008, an inspiring performance of Mozart's “The Magic Flute” followed, and in 2009 the comic opera “The funny women of Windsor” by Otto Nicolai.
In 2007 the Hellerhof Garden was honored by being included in the "Directory of Lower Austrian State Show Gardens".
Life support group
In the eastern part of the Hellerhofgarten, a branch of the Oberwölbling workshop for the disabled will be opened on October 4th, 2003. The facility serves to relieve the head office in Wölbling and offers up to eight handicapped people and two supervisors as "Hellerhof garden group" employment in horticulture (garden design and plant cultivation) and wood handicrafts. As of October 3, 2008, a newly constructed timber structure will replace the previous container system. In the "Werkstätte-Hellerhof" there will now be 16 disabled people and 3 carers.
Pilgrim Brotherhood St. Altmann
A state-registered non-profit association with its headquarters in Hellerhof-Paudorf was founded on December 8, 2000. The aim of the brotherhood is to organize the annual foot pilgrimage to Mariazell, to maintain the pilgrimage and to accommodate Santiago pilgrims in the Hellerhof.
- Zellerweg: The name “Zellerweg” has existed in Paudorf since 1360. This path is part of the pilgrim path that pilgrims from South Moravia, the Weinviertel and Waldviertel used to walk to Mariazell in the Middle Ages.
- Destination Mariazell: The first foot pilgrimage from the parish to Mariazell is documented in 1717, the last in 1771 after Emperor Joseph II had banned pilgrimages. Since 1982 there has been a pilgrimage every year on this 100 km long route. At first there were 15, now around 200 pilgrims on foot. The Paudorf foot pilgrimage to Mariazell was also part of the 2007 European pilgrimage.
- Bishop Altmann: The brotherhood bears the name of Holy Bishop Altmann († August 8, 1091), the founder of the monastery and the parish of (Paudorf-) Göttweig. He was a participant in the great pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1064 and 1065.
- Jakobspilger: Paudorf lies at the intersection of the historical Mariazellerweg (north-south) and the Jakobsweg (east-west). Every year since Easter 2000, around 50 pilgrims, who walk the 3,500 kilometers to Santiago de Compostela or just the Austrian Way of St. James (northern route), have asked for shelter at the Hellerhof.
Sculpture Symposium
In 1997 and 2002 the market town of Paudorf in the Hellerhof organized an international sculptor symposium under the artistic direction of Hannes Hermann Bischof (Höbenbach). In 2007 the symposium took place in nearby Maria Ellend.
On April 6, 2003, Mayor Karl Brugger opened the "sculpture trail" along the Höbenbach. This path shows 12 carved sculptures from the sculpture symposium 2002.
swell
- Udo Fischer : Hellerhof , the long way from the sunken Dietmannsdorf to the center of the Paudorf parish in Göttweig (1992)
- Clemens Lashofer , OSB: Profeßbuch des Benediktinerstiftes Göttweig (1983 and 1999)
- Dehio: The Art Monuments of Austria , Lower Austria south of the Danube (2003)
- Udo Fischer: St. Altmann , Church in Paudorf (1994)
- Udo Fischer: Believing with your feet , pilgrimages and processions in the Paudorf-Göttweig parish (1997)
- Udo Fischer: Seven blessed years , the renovation of the historic Hellerhof (2001)
- Udo Fischer: Atlas of the Paudorf-Göttweig Parish (2002)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Dehio: The Art Monuments of Austria , Lower Austria south of the Danube (2003)
- ^ Abbot Johannes Dizent Museum. Marktgemeinde Paudorf, accessed on October 22, 2014 .
- ^ Abbot Johannes Dizent Museum. Museum Management Lower Austria, accessed on October 22, 2014 .
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