Capuchin monastery Altdorf
The Altdorf Capuchin Monastery, Monastery of All Saints, is owned by the Uri Corporation. In June 2009 the last six Capuchins left the monastery. Since then it has been available to external course organizers for seminars. The in-house offers of the cultural monastery include artistic activities (music, stone carving, textile design with plant-dyed wool and silk), homeopathy and music therapy.
history
The Capuchin monastery in Altdorf was built between 1579 and 1581 on a hill above the village. The main initiator of the foundation was Ritter Walter von Roll, who could count on the active support of Karl Borromeo . At the end of July 1581, Father Franz von Bormio and four confreres moved into the building. The Altdorf Capuchin Monastery was the first settlement of the Capuchin Order north of the Alps. In the following years, for the renewal of the Catholic faith (Catholic Reform) and with counter-Reformation intentions, Capuchin monasteries were founded in other places of the Catholic Confederation, for example in Stans (1582), Lucerne (1583), Schwyz (1585), Appenzell (1587), Solothurn and Baden (1588).
The first monastery consisted of a single elongated building that was aligned parallel to the parish church of St. Martin (Altdorf) . Significant renovation and expansion work was not carried out until 1737. At that time the monastery received u. a. a new refectory and a cloister. In the village fire of 1799, the monastery was destroyed by flames. The building damage was estimated at 16,000 guilders. The reconstruction took place at the initiative of the Uri government and was financed by the Uri stand, the Uri municipalities and with numerous public and private donations.
architecture
Today's monastery complex essentially shows the shape it had achieved through the redesign and the new wing in 1737. The topographical conditions, the different soil levels and the complex terracing of the monastery gardens are characteristic of the complex. The monastery church corresponds to the simple type of sacred buildings of the Capuchin order and has a modest size ratio with a total length (inside) of 25.5 m. The construction scheme of the Altdorf monastery church continued to have an effect in some of the early Capuchin churches (Schwyz, Appenzell), whereby the Altdorf church with its strongly raised choir and two-storey structure is characterized by striking features. The interior of the existing monastery church is kept extremely simple as a result of the purification of 1958. On the front of the entrance there is an honorary relief for the church donor Walter von Roll: von Roll coat of arms, crest with crown, lion with wheel. In the lower third of the panel there is an inscription in Latin. The honor relief is likely to come from the construction time and was placed above the church entrance until it was relocated in 1936.
See also
literature
- Helmi Gasser: The art monuments of the canton Uri Volume 1: Altdorf 1st part history, settlement development, sacred buildings. Edited by the Society for Swiss Art History GSK. Bern 2001 (Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz Volume 96), ISBN 3-906131-00-9 , pp. 268–305.
- Carl Franz Müller: The Altdorf seats of the von Roll family and their owners. In: Historisches Neujahrsblatt des Kantons Uri, Vol. 42/43 (1951/52), pp. 46–117.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Cf. Christian Schweizer: Sermondi, Franz. In: Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz .
Coordinates: 46 ° 53 '3.4 " N , 8 ° 38' 37.4" E ; CH1903: 691850 / one hundred ninety-three thousand two hundred and seventy-nine