Capuchin monastery Gauenstein

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Capuchin monastery Gauenstein (2014)

The Gauenstein Capuchin Monastery is a Capuchin monastery in Schruns , Vorarlberg in Austria .

Location and history

Gauenstein is a hill above a steep rock in the Gaueserwald near Schruns. A hermitage has been known on the hill since the beginning of the 18th century, which “was forcibly abolished under Emperor Josef II (1780–1790) [...] and at the beginning of the 19th century it became a small Capuchin monastery with the name: Gauenstein (developed). This small monastery Gauenstein developed into one of the most beautiful monasteries in the Tyrolean Capuchin Province. The first Capuchins moved into this monastery on September 10, 1844. "

Today the monastery and the Feldkirch Capuchin monastery form the Feldkirch / Gauenstein Capuchin community, one Capuchin lives permanently in Gauenstein.

Church of Our Lady of Sorrows

Altars in the chapel

A chapel was built in 1709 and consecrated in 1721 and rebuilt in 1847. "On July 14, 1851 the monastery church was consecrated by the auxiliary bishop Georg Prünster from Feldkirch ."

The rectangular building with a gable roof has a low monk choir with a bell tower above it. The north facade has a round arch portal under a sign. The hall room has a flat ceiling. The monk choir is a square room with a groined vault.

At the high altar is a painting Painful Maria by Johann Paul Scheiber 1750 with figures Jude Thaddeus and Josef Franz Albertani from 1931. The Higher Relief God the Father was built around 1750. On the left side altar is an altarpiece stigmatization of Francis of Josef Anton Bertle from 1849. The Stations of the Cross are by Josef Anton Bertle from 1849 and were restored by Jakob Bertle in 1899. There is a Pieta by Albert Winkler in the monks' choir .

Extension of the monastery buildings

Another monastery was built near the church between 1853 and 1854 and expanded in 1919. "In 1929 an extension was built that was supposed to fulfill its function as a guest house for the future." Walled-in monastery garden with machine house and support of a former material cable car to the valley floor.

literature

  • Dehio Vorarlberg 1983 , Schruns, Kapuzinerklosterkirche Our Lady of Sorrows, in Gauenstein. P. 371.
  • Father Edilbert Geiger, Capuchin Monastery Gauenstein 140: Father Stanislaus Saurbeck (1595–1647), a Capuchin from Wutöschingen . Schruns / Vorarlberg (without exact time, 1980s), p. 13. Geiger refers to: History of the Tyrolean Capuchin Order Province (1593–1893) , by Agapit Hohenegger and P. Peter Baptist Zierler, Volume 2, Innsbruck 1915, pp. 431-438.
  • Hermann Sander : The Gauenstein near Schruns in Vorarlberg (1905).

Web links

Commons : Capuchin monastery Gauenstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Father Edilbert Geiger, Capuchin monastery Gauenstein 140: Father Stanislaus Saurbeck (1595–1647), a Capuchin from Wutöschingen . Schruns / Vorarlberg (without exact time, 1980s), p. 13. Geiger refers to: History of the Tyrolean Capuchin Order Province (1593–1893) , by Agapit Hohenegger and P. Peter Baptist Zierler, Volume 2, Innsbruck 1915, pp. 431-438. Geiger writes that the hermitage already existed "in the days of Father Stanislaus".
  2. ↑ kapuziner.at: Where we are: Gauenstein ; { kapuziner.at: Gauenstein Monastery. Kapuziner Engelbert Bacher - curriculum vitae .
  3. ↑ This and the quote in the previous section: Fr. Edilbert Geiger: Pater Stanislaus Saurbeck. Schruns / Vorarlberg, 1980s, p. 13. Geiger refers to: History of the Tyrolean Capuchin Order Province , Volume 2, Innsbruck 1915, pp. 431–438.

Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 1.5 ″  N , 9 ° 54 ′ 9.8 ″  E