Capuchin Church (Gmunden)

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Capuchin Church in Gmunden (Traundorf district)

The Capuchin Church of Gmunden is in the Upper Austrian town of Gmunden in the Gmunden district . The church was built between 1636 and 1638. Since the monastery was closed in 2007, the sacred building has been a branch church to the Roman Catholic parish church of Gmunden in the Gmunden deanery of the Diocese of Linz . The Capuchin Church is subordinate to the Patronage of the Visitation of Mary . The church and the former monastery are under monument protection .

history

Emperor Ferdinand II is personally committed to the settlement of the Capuchin Order in Gmunden. The first Capuchins arrived in the city in 1635. The foundation stone of the monastery and church in the Traundorf district of Gmundner was laid on October 5, 1636 by the Abbot von Garsten. Anton Spindler. It was completed in 1638 (church) and 1639 (monastery), but the church was not consecrated until November 25, 1645 . The Archbishop of Prague, Ernst Adalbert Cardinal von Harrach , carried out the consecration . In the 1640s, around 40 friars lived in the Gmunden convent , who preached sermons and public worship in the city and the surrounding area. By reports from the years 1686, 1712 and 1751 is narrated that while the Salzkammergut the secret Protestantism was found. From 1688 the monastery was enlarged.

During the Second World War , the monastery had to be evacuated by order of the Nazi state, the church was preserved for pastoral care. From 1945 the monastery was settled again. The altarpieces by Philipp Haller have been in the church again since 1958. Interior renovations were carried out in 1964–1967 and 1984, and exterior renovations in 1978. Since 1977, Gmunden was the location of the provincial library of the then Vienna Capuchin Province. The book inventory consisted of donations, inheritances and the holdings of closed branches of the province (in particular Wels, Freistadt, Steyr, Linz). In 2007 the monastery was closed. In the same year the provincial council in Vienna was dissolved. In the meantime, there is only the Capuchin Province of Austria-South Tyrol with its seat in Innsbruck for the entire federal territory . Some of the books (prints from the 15th and 16th centuries) were brought to the provincial library in Innsbruck, the rest of the books went on permanent loan to the Catholic Private University Linz (KTU Linz).

The Gmundner property continues to be owned by the Capuchin Order, the Capuchin Church is run as a branch church to the parish church. The municipality has leased the monastery grounds on a long-term basis. In the former monastery there is now a generation center and the city library, among other things. Cultural events and weddings are also held in the building complex and in the spacious gardens, and a (civil) wedding room is available for around 25 people.

architecture

The Gmunden Capuchin Church was built from 1636 by Marx Martin Spaz from Linz. The church has a single nave with a three-bay nave . The retracted three-bay choir has a straight end. The nave and choir have cross vaults.

Furnishing

The church furnishings are in the neo-Romanesque style from 1872 to 1875. The church has oil paintings from the 18th century, the style of which is Italian. The motifs of the Visitation of the Virgin (high altar painting from 1753), St. Fidelis and St. Josef von Leonessa are monogrammed PH and are attributed to the baroque painter Philipp Haller. Haller was a student of Paul Troger . The organ was built in 1874 by Anton Hanel from Linz-Urfahr .

  • Interior of the Capuchin Church

  • former monastery and gardens

  • Stations of the Cross

literature

  • Association for the publication of a district book Gmunden (ed.): The district of Gmunden and its communities. From the beginning to the present . Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House , Linz 1991.
  • Bundesdenkmalamt (Ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Oberösterreich . 3. Edition. Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1958.

Web links

Commons : Kapuzinerkloster Gmunden  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Federal Monuments Office (ed.): Dehio-Handbuch Oberösterreich . 3. Edition. Anton Schroll & Co, Vienna 1958, p. 94 .
  2. ↑ a b c d The Gmunden Capuchin Monastery and its library. Capuchin Province Austria-South Tyrol, December 1, 2011, accessed on July 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ Upper Austria - immovable and archaeological monuments under monument protection. ( Memento from June 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . Federal Monuments Office , as of June 27, 2014 (PDF).
  4. ^ Heinrich Marchetti: Gmunden. Community mirror and history . In: Association for the publication of a district book Gmunden (Hrsg.): The district of Gmunden and its communities . From the beginning to the present. Upper Austria. Landesverlag. Linz 1991. pp. 903, 906.
  5. ↑ Capuchin monastery as a generation center. Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, September 2, 2009, accessed on July 17, 2016 .
  6. ^ Former Capuchin monastery in Gmunden. SIMS Kultur, September 2, 2009, accessed July 17, 2016 .
  7. ^ Musealverein Gmunden (ed.): The Gmunden paperback. 100 years of the museum association . Salzkammergut Media, Gmunden 2007, ISBN 3-901572-11-2 , p. 98 .

Coordinates: 47 ° 55 ′ 2.9 "  N , 13 ° 48 ′ 16.2"  E