Capuchin monastery Innsbruck
The Innsbruck Capuchin Monastery is a monastery of the Capuchin Order in Innsbruck . The monastery is also the seat of the Provincial Council of the Capuchin Province of Austria-South Tyrol .
location
The Capuchin monastery is located in Innsbruck's city center on the corner of Kaiserjägerstrasse and Kapuzinergasse.
history
The Capuchin Monastery in Innsbruck is the oldest of the Capuchin Order in Austria (including South Tyrol) and Germany. It was founded in 1593/94 by the Tyrolean Prince Archduke Ferdinand II and his second wife Anna Caterina von Gonzaga . Georg Benigni, Auxiliary Bishop of Brixen († 1597/98) consecrated the Capuchin Church and the high altar in honor of St. Francis on December 18, 1594.
With the introduction of its own philosophical-theological studies in the North Tyrolean Capuchin Province in 1615, the Capuchin monastery in Innsbruck also became a study monastery. In the same year the Hermitage Archduke Maximilians III. built by the German master on the north side of the church.
From 1787 to 1802, during the reign of Joseph II , the monastery was closed. After the monastery was bought back by Johann Nepomuk von Zimmermann , the church was consecrated again in 1802 by Karl Franz von Lodron , Bishop of Brixen. In 1929 and 1937 the monastery was expanded structurally. During the Second World War , the monastery was again closed from 1940 to 1945. After the abandonment of the monastery in 1945, the altars were consecrated on December 21, 1947 by the Apostolic Administrator and later Bishop of Innsbruck Paulus Rusch . In 1960/61 the church was restored. At the end of 1968, the company's own philosophical-theological studies in the North Tyrolean Capuchin Province were closed. From 1991 to 1994 the church and the monastery were completely renovated to their original size. At the same time the premises of the provincial library and the provincial archive were created.
With a solemn service on December 18, 1994, held by Innsbruck diocesan bishop Reinhold Stecher , the newly designed monastery was given its destination.
Capuchin Church
The church interior has an unadorned barrel vault . His furnishing concept, which was designed by Franz Pöhacker , is based on wood furniture in the sense of Franciscan simplicity.
The right niche in the chancel provides space for the tabernacle , the left for the Gospel book (sacrament and word). The ambo and the altar stand side by side. The priest's seat is in the front center of the front wall.
The altarpiece depicts the Adoration of the Magi and was painted by the Capuchin Cosimo da Castelfranco in 1606. The altar retable shows the wonderful multiplication of bread on the left, the wedding at Cana on the right and is a carving by the academic sculptor Franz Staud from 1949. In the middle, above the priest's seat, is the cross, wrapped in a grape vine. The two wooden sculptures, also by Franz Staud, depict St. Francis as the founder of the Franciscan Order on the left and the holy martyr and patron of the North Tyrolean Capuchin Province Fidelis von Sigmaringen on the right.
To the left of the church entrance is the Lady Chapel with a picture of “ Maria lactans ”, the breastfeeding mother of Jesus, which was painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder between 1525 and 1530. It came from the Straubing Capuchin Monastery to the Capuchin Church in Innsbruck in 1629 and is the oldest publicly venerated image of the Virgin Mary in Innsbruck.
Adjacent to the Marienkapelle in the east wall is the burial niche of the Capuchin lay brother Thomas von Olera , who died on May 3, 1631 in Innsbruck, who was beatified on September 21, 2013 in Bergamo. The decoration of the memorial was created by the Italian artist Maurizio Bonato . He also painted the three pictures located between the two church windows, which are part of his seven-part work on the subject of "The Life of St. Francis".
On the south wall of the church there is a wood-carved way of the cross, which comes from Strbibanik († 1993). In the middle of the church a floor tile with the dates 1705–1782 reminds of a former crypt in which 123 Capuchins are buried. Epitaphs of two generals are preserved on the inside of the north and south walls of the church. The cemetery has been in the monastery garden since 1783.
tasks
A service is celebrated in the Capuchin Church every morning. It is open all day and is often visited as a place of silence and prayer. The Capuchin Brothers offer the morning and afternoon the opportunity to speak out or to receive the sacrament of reconciliation . The meditation room and consulting room are regularly made available for prayer groups and counseling services.
The Wolfgangstube next to the gate of the Capuchin monastery is intended in a special way for people in need. Caritas Innsbruck runs the breakfast room in cooperation with the monastery porter and the monastery cook.
The monastery garden is accessible to the residents of the neighboring “Nothburgaheim”, a senior citizens' home, and to the children of the slw kindergarten.
The Capuchins take on pastoral as well as liturgical "auxiliary services" outside the monastery, work in prison chaplaincy , look after sister communities, offer spiritual accompaniment and retreats .
literature
- Agapit Hohenegger, Peter Baptist Zierler: History of the Tyrolean Capuchin Order Province. Innsbruck 1913-1915, 2 vol.
- Michael Hetzenauer: The Capuchin Monastery in Innsbruck. Innsbruck 1893
- Robert Winkler: Capuchin Church and Monastery. Innsbruck 1980
- Hans Norbert Huber [Red.]: Laus Deo - God be praised. 400 years of Capuchins in Tyrol . Festschrift Innsbruck 1994, DNB 94558637X
- Franz Caramelle: Four Hundred Years of Capuchin Monastery Innsbruck. In: Tyrolean landscapes. 1994, pp. 95-108
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://innsbruck.kapuziner.at/wo-wir-sind/innsbruck/mehr-ueber-uns/
- ↑ http://zentralbibliothek.kapuziner.at/geschichteue.htm
- ↑ http://zentralbibliothek.kapuziner.at/Bibliotheksgeschichte.pdf
- ↑ http://innsbruck.kapuziner.at/wo-wir-sind/innsbruck/mehr-ueber-uns/
- ↑ http://www.webmuseumtirol.at/kuenstler/Po-hacker_Franz/
Web links
Coordinates: 47 ° 16 '12.2 " N , 11 ° 24' 0.7" E