Landsee Camaldolese monastery

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Ruins of the Camaldolese monastery in Landsee

The Camaldolese monastery Landsee stands on the monastery mountain above the village of Landsee in the municipality of Markt Sankt Martin in the district of Oberpullendorf in Burgenland . The monastery was dissolved in 1782 and has since fallen into disrepair. The remaining masonry is under monument protection ( list entry ).

history

The monastery of the Camaldolese hermits , which today has disappeared except for a few walls , was built in 1701 on the wooded mountainside of the monastery mountain above the village of Landsee. The Landsee castle ruins are on the opposite mountain slope . The monastery was built by Eva Tököly with a fortune of 15,000  florins . She was the wife of Field Marshal Paul I. Esterházy de Galantha .

The monastery was dissolved in 1782 as part of the Josephinist abolition of the monastery and the foundation was converted into a chapter that was transferred to the newly founded Landsee parish in 1804 . The furnishings, some of which were made by the monastery friars themselves, were transferred to various parishes in the area, some of them to today's Hungary , such as the main altar and the eight side altars. The monastery itself was left to decay.

Building description

The complex originally consisted of the monastery church - which was consecrated to St. Michael - over a rectangular floor plan, a bell tower that was in front of the north wall of the church, and eight free-standing hermit clauses that were laid out on both sides of the church front. The actual rooms of the monastery were north of the church. There was also a Meierhof .

literature

  • Dehio-Handbuch - The art monuments of Austria - Burgenland. Landsee, ruin on the Klosterberg. Edited by Adelheid Schmeller-Kitt with contributions by Friedrich Berg , Clara Prickler-Wassitzky and Hannsjörg Ubl. Berger Verlag, Horn / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-85028-400-4 , pp. 166f.
  • Bundesdenkmalamt (editor), Andreas Lehne (editorial management): Austrian art topography. Volume LVI. The art monuments of the political district of Oberpullendorf . Verlag Berger, Horn 2005, ISBN 3-85028-402-6 , p. 314 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burgenland - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento of May 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 26, 2015 (PDF).

Coordinates: 47 ° 33 '58.3 "  N , 16 ° 20' 0.7"  E