Hartberg Capuchin Monastery
The Kapuzinerkloster Hartberg is a monastery complex of the Capuchin Province Austria-South Tyrol in the Austrian city of Hartberg , state of Styria .
history
On April 14, 1654, the foundation stone of the monastery was laid by Matthias Singer, provost of the Vorau monastery . The construction was accompanied by some difficulties, but could be pushed ahead thanks to the commitment of numerous benefactors, among them Wolfgang Rudolf Graf von Saurau, Lord von Neuberg. The church consecration under the patronage of the Assumption took place on July 4, 1658 by the prince-bishop of the diocese of Seckau , Johann IV. Markus von Altringen .
Due to the strong population growth and the resulting influx of visitors, the sacred building soon had to be expanded. Over the centuries, the Capuchin monastery was threatened with abandonment twice: for the first time in the course of the Josephine reforms under Emperor Joseph II and for the second time under the National Socialists, in 1940, when the Capuchins had to leave Hartberg and the monastery complex was expropriated. The building was adapted as a retirement home and the church was used as a military depot. After the end of the Second World War , the Capuchins returned, but could not use a large part of the building, as it still housed the district retirement home until 1955. Between 1956 and 1967 a branch of the housekeeping school of Schloss St. Martin near Graz was also housed in the premises.
In September 2016, the diocese of Graz-Seckau took over the monastery, as the Capuchins had to withdraw due to a lack of young people. Since then, the founding project of an oratorio of St. Philipp Neri implemented.
Architecture and design
The Capuchin monastery with the associated church is located on Kernstockplatz in the southwest of the old town. The simple building is single-nave and has barrel vaults with stitch caps . A hipped roof is placed on the unadorned facade and a ridge turret is set up over the sanctuary . A set of stairs has been built towards the street. The neo-baroque interior of the church was expanded at the beginning of the 20th century to include pictures by the artist PG Burtscher. At the end of the 1970s, the monastery and the church were extensively renovated.
Web links
proof
- Kurt Woisetschläger, Peter Krenn: DEHIO Steiermark (excluding Graz) . Schroll, Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-7031-0532-1 , p. 164 .
- ↑ a b History of the Capuchins in Hartberg
- ^ Woisetschläger, Krenn: Dehio Steiermark (excluding Graz). P. 164.
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 ′ 43.7 ″ N , 15 ° 57 ′ 59.4 ″ E