Capuchin Church (Bozen)
The Capuchin Church in Bolzano is dedicated to St. Consecrated to Anthony of Padua . Together with the Capuchin Monastery , it is located at Wolkensteinstrasse 1 in the Zentrum-Bozner Boden-Rentsch district .
history
At the site of today's Capuchin monastery, the Bolzano city castle of the Counts of Tyrol, already mentioned in 1242 , was originally located with Wendelstein Castle . In 1599 Baron Markus von Wolkenstein started building the monastery, which his brother Engelhart Dietrich von Wolkenstein then completed. In 1603 the church was consecrated by Auxiliary Bishop Simeon Feuerstein. This made the Bolzano monastery the first Capuchin convent in South Tyrol. In 1673 the monastery was expanded, and in 1678 the church too.
After Bolzano fell to the Kingdom of Italy in 1810 , the monastery was closed by the Italian government. As early as 1816, the noble lady Katharina von Hepperger acquired the former monastery and handed it back to the Capuchin Order "for perpetual use". After the First World War and the separation of South Tyrol from Austria, the fascist state forced the South Tyrolean Order Province to break away from North Tyrol. During the Second World War , the monastery suffered severe damage, which could be removed again in 1946/47.
In 1990 the order gave two thirds of the monastery building and the garden to the South Tyrolean provincial administration, which established the state college for social professions " Hannah Arendt " there through extensive renovation work and made the adjacent park accessible to the general public. The rest of the monastery and church have been renovated. Since 2011 the Order Province of South Tyrol has been reunited with Austria. In the future, the order plans to hand over the building to the Vinzenzverein Südtirol and only wants to keep one chaplain at the location.
Building description
The simple, single-nave monastery church on the corner of Wolkensteinstrasse and Kapuzinergasse has a vestibule with a straight choir closure. The high altar is by the Veronese painter Felice Brusasorci and depicts Saints Anthony of Padua and Francis of Assisi . In a side chapel there is an altar with the image of the Assumption of Mary . In the monastery building remains of frescoes from the previous building from the 14th and 15th centuries have been preserved. The monastery, church and garden have been under monument protection since 1977 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hannes Obermair , Helmut Stampfer : Urban living culture in late medieval Bolzano. In: Runkelstein Castle - the picture castle. Edited by the city of Bozen with the participation of the South Tyrolean Cultural Institute , Bozen: Athesia 2000. ISBN 88-8266-069-9 , pp. 397–409, reference pp. 402–403.
- ^ Website of the State College for Social Professions Hannah Arendt
Web links
- Website of the Capuchin Order
- Entry in the monument browser on the website of the South Tyrolean Monuments Office
- Say about the founding of the monastery
Coordinates: 46 ° 29 ′ 48.1 ″ N , 11 ° 21 ′ 9.6 ″ E