Hyrtl's orphanage

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The Hyrtl'sche orphanage was an orphanage in Mödling in Lower Austria. It was built between 1886 and 1889 by the builder and architect Eugen Sehnal under Mödling's mayor Josef Schöffel . The financing was possible because the well-known anatomist Josef Hyrtl donated his fortune for the construction.

The preserved and restored buildings of the former orphanage are placed around the orphanage church in the late historical architectural style in the manner of an English college and characterize the eastern part of Mödling.

Orphanage

South wing of the orphanage

In 1885, the association for the establishment and maintenance of an orphanage was founded in Mödling under the direction of Josef Schöffel . In 1886 the municipality donated the grounds of the former cemetery and the former church of St. Martin to the association. These grounds are to the east of the southern railway in the new district founded by Schöffel, which was later named Schöffelvorstadt or Schöffelstadt.

Josef Hyrtl donated a large part of his fortune to the association and continuously provided the funds for the construction of the orphanage and the associated church, today's orphanage church.

The first building was built for 48 children and cost 36,579 guilders. The construction of the orphanage church at the same time cost 116,579 guilders. Construction was quick. If the foundation stone was laid in April 1886, the orphanage was ready to open in October of the same year. In the same year, the square in front of it was also named Hyrtlplatz .

In total, the Joseph Hyrtl Orphanage Foundation inherited almost 600,000 guilders from the estate of Hyrtl, who died in 1894, which today corresponds to a value of around 5.5 million euros.

In 1888 and 1890 the capacity of the orphanage was expanded to 220 orphans through several additions. An institutional school was also set up in the west building.

In April 1903 there were 600 children of both sexes in the Humanitarian Institute .

The foundation was dissolved in the course of the Anschluss in 1938 . In 1955, the Lower Austrian Youth Home Mödling was re-established. In 1978 the home moved to Hinterbrühl .

The most famous pupils of the orphanage include Leopold Petznek , Josef Weinheber (from 1901 to 1909) and Friedrich Zawrel (in 1940 and 1942).

Former Martinskirche

At the place where the orphanage church consecrated to St. Joseph stands today, there used to be St. Martin's Church, which was built around 903 and was Mödling's first parish church. It existed since the victory of Charlemagne over the Avars in the early 9th century as a base for Christianization and formed the Mödlinger settlement core until the place was relocated after the destruction by the Hungarians in the 10th century. Despite this development, its status as a parish church remained until 1475. The Martinskirche was finally destroyed in the course of the Ottoman Wars in 1683 and fell into disrepair. In 1787 it was completely demolished. Around the church was the former cemetery with a small chapel, which was the burial place of Countess Sophie Wargemont, who died in 1819. With the opening of the new cemetery at the foot of the Eichkogel on May 4, 1876, the cemetery could also be closed.

In 1974 a Romanesque baptismal font in the old church was rediscovered.

St. Joseph Church

Southwest view of the church
Orphanage church with the Hyrtl monument

The church forms the center of the U-shaped orphanage area. The church, which, like the other wings, has a raw brick facade, has sculptures by the sculptor Vincenz Pilz on the outside .

Very little is known about the church itself. For example, in 1887, on the occasion of the name days of Hyrtl and his wife, Schubert's Deutsche Messe was performed twice by the Mödlinger Gesangsverein .

The orphanage church, formerly a Catholic branch church , is now used by the Evangelical Parish AB Mödling as a sermon point, and the Old Catholic Diaspora Community of Mödling of the parish of St. Salvator (Inner Vienna) as the church of worship.

Use of the buildings today

In 1957, parts of the orphanage grounds were sold by the Lower Austrian provincial government, which the Hyrtl Foundation still manages, to Niogas , a forerunner of EVN , which built a district heating plant there.

In 1963 the eastern part of the large property was sold to the Lower Austrian Regional Association of the Red Cross , which set up the disaster camp for Lower Austria on this property. In keeping with the times at the time, the building was converted into a functional building with as little resources as possible and little emphasis was placed on the preservation of the old structure. The aim was to accommodate as much material as possible for disaster control. The background to this was the aid deliveries made in 1956 in the course of the Hungarian popular uprising . So the old outdoor pool of the orphanage was removed and a warehouse and garage were built. It was only from the 1980s to the end of the 1990s that the facades and the old structure could be renovated and restored with the support of the municipality and sponsors. The former Hyrtldenkmal , from the studio of the master stonemason Aufhauser and erected at the beginning of August 1898, was moved from the front garden of the disaster camp in front of the orphanage church.

In 1969 the remaining grounds of the orphanage were sold to the Mödling community.

The west wing of the orphanage, which houses the elementary school and the day care center, was completely renovated between 2003 and 2006. In the process, 5,800 m² facade and 450 old Viennese windows were renovated for 2 million euros.

The HLA for fashion and clothing technology , which was founded in 1924, and the HLA for product management and presentation, which was founded in 2000, have been located in another building since 1975 .

The building complex stands with the designations fashion school (Josef Hyrtl-Platz 3), elementary school and residential building and garden portal (Josef Hyrtl-Platz 2), as well as Former. Orphanage Church of St. Josef and former cemetery area (Josef Hyrtl-Platz 4) under monument protection. The Josef Hyrtl monument on the square, the Kaiser Franz Joseph monument in front of the elementary school and the 4 pedestal lions are also protected .

In 2019/2020 the enclosed Hyrtl-Platz will be rebuilt. At the same time, subsidized housing, a public path to Untere Bachgasse and various facilities in the existing Red Cross building will be built on the eastern wing of the area.

  • Josef Hyrtl monument

  • Emperor Franz Joseph monument

  • one of the pedestal lions

literature

  • Koloman Götzl: Festschrift for the 100th anniversary of the opening ceremony of the Dr. Josef Hyrtl'schen Orphan Foundation in Mödling on October 1st, 1886 . Municipality of Mödling, Mödling 1986.
  • Ute De Santis: Orphan Care - the Dr. Hyrtl'sche orphanage in Mödling from 1886 to 1939 . Vienna, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2004.
  • Walter Jirka: From Martinskirche to the orphanage church , 2016

Web links

Commons : Hyrtl'sches Orphanage  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Orphanage Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Foundation and history of the Hyrtl orphanage and the Mödling disaster camp of the Lower Austrian Red Cross . PDF  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed May 12, 2010.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / old.n.roteskreuz.at  
  2. ↑ J. Sallachner: Hyrtl, Josef . In: Austria-Forum , accessed on May 11, 2010.
  3. ↑ Correspondence. (...) About the creation of Hyrtl (...). In:  Badener Zeitung , May 1, 1903, p. 5 middle. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  4. ↑ The story . ( Memento of the original from August 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Lower Austria Heilpädagogisches Zentrum Hinterbrühl , accessed on May 11, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.noehpz.at
  5. ^ Mödling under the Babenberg family. In: moedling.at , accessed on October 10, 2010.
  6. ↑ St. Martin is marked on the map from around 1770 .
  7. ↑ Timeline St. Othmar - Mödling . In: othmar.at , accessed on May 11, 2010.
  8. ↑ Mödling at a glance. (...) Church of St. Josef, orphanage church . In: moedling.at , PDF , sheet 11, right, accessed on October 10, 2010.
  9. ↑ The votive Vargemont from Martin Cemetery in Mödling . In: othmar.at , accessed on May 11, 2010.
  10. ↑ Mödling at a glance. (...) cemetery . In: moedling.at , PDF , sheet 11, left, accessed on October 10, 2010.
  11. ^ Orphanage Church of St. Joseph - Lower Austria . In: tiscover.com , accessed May 11, 2010.
  12. ↑ Ilse Moderei: The Mödlinger Gesang-Verein - the development from 1848 to 2008 . Vienna, Univ., Dipl.-Arb., 2008, Permalink Austrian Library Association , PDF online , accessed on May 11, 2010.
  13. ↑ a b Lower Austria State Audit Office. Report 5/2006. Dr. Josef Hyrtl - Orphan Foundation. Follow-up check. (...) 3 General . PDF , p. 4, accessed on May 11, 2010.
  14. ^ Correspondences. (...) A Hyrtl monument (...). In:  Badener Zeitung , August 10, 1898, p. 3. bottom center. (Online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / bzt
  15. ↑ Renovation of the historical building structure completed ( Memento of the original dated November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 11, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.moedling.at
  16. ^ HLA for fashion and clothing technology , accessed December 6, 2012.
  17. ↑ HLA for product management and presentation ( Memento of the original from July 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 6, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hla-moedling.at
  18. ↑ Christoph Dworak: Project presentation: Hyrtlplatz is dressing up . February 20, 2019. Retrieved August 1, 2020.
  19. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .
  20. ↑ Permalink Austrian Library Association .

Coordinates: 48 ° 5 ′ 10.6 ″  N , 16 ° 17 ′ 58 ″  E